Abandoned Engineering

Abandoned Engineering is a TV show on Yesterday. A look at some of the greatest engineering projects that have now been abandoned. The program has been available since 2024. A total of 133 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in August 2025.
Last broadcast:30/08/2025 at 02:00
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Abandoned Engineering
A fairy-tale castle that staged one of the strangest stories of the Second World War and a haunting complex on an old American frontier are explored.
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A volcanic island just off Taiwan containing chilling ruins from its darkest era, and a zoo lies forgotten in the woods of Arkansas.


Eerie ruins hide in the forested hills of Arkansas, plus a disintegrating gulag in Albania that housed enemies of the state.


A Middle Eastern region littered with ruins was the site of an extraordinary deception, and a strange facility in Taiwan struck fear into those who knew its true purpose.


A real-life concrete jungle in America's 'Rust Belt', and an industrial facility that brought energy to a remote corner of the world.


An iron monster lost in the Alaskan tundra, a Crusader fort thrown into a modern conflict, and a prison built to house a mafia kingpin.


An American desert canyon where fortunes were made and lives were lost and an island fortress in Scotland with an Achilles heel.


An engineering masterpiece carved into the cliff-face, and a long-range beacon that transmitted one of the most infamous messages in American history.


Ruins of a vast industrial ghost town in the United States, a windswept, Scottish island and the remains of a resort in Japan that watched a city burn.


In North Wales a secret facility which once manufactured mustard gas and enriched uranium lies in ruins; In Malta is a luxurious quarantine facility, that hides a dark secret.


Legendary film sets with surprising pasts and real locations that inspired Hollywood. Within these decaying structures are the echoes of history.
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A creepy collection of buildings and monuments hidden in a Parisian park and an eerie graveyard of discarded ships strewn along the banks of a mighty river.


New. An impressive compound commandeered and repurposed by a brutal regime and an eerie complex off the coast of Ireland that became the biggest of its kind.


New. A small isolated country littered with strange concrete mushrooms and a secret Japanese facility that was once at the forefront of weapons technology.


New. The mysterious Cachtice Castle home to Elizabeth Bathory, said to have killed over 600 girls and a mysterious structure on the 38th parallel.


A juggernaut of Soviet engineering which was crucial to the international space race. Deserted Scottish coastal defences and a complex that's crucial to American history.


A now silent site that played a pivotal role defending the U.S through the 20th century. Plus, a crumbling Italian fortress and a ghostly Ukrainian mansion.


A two-hour special featuring a deserted Caribbean city, an American ghost town still burning and an Arctic settlement facing a terrifying future.


A complex of stone buildings near Hadrian's Wall that were built to keep Northern hoards at bay! Also, a top secret military facility in the American Midwest.


Within a dense Polish woodland sits a forgotten complex with an explosive history. Also, grand coastal defences in Ghana reveal a tortured past.