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 October 2025.
Last broadcast:14/10/2025 at 02:00
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Abandoned Engineering
Exploring an industrial ruin in the Florida Everglades that once competed in the greatest race humankind has ever witnessed.
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Exploring Agdam, a city in Azerbaijan raised to the ground in a conflict decided by a new weapon of war.


Exploring the remains of an ingenious sky-high solution to a ground-based problem, Chiatura, once know as the Venice of the air.


Exploring a series of vaults, hidden from view in Edinburgh, Scotland that tell a murky story of opportunity, crime and destitution.


Exploring the Tunnels of Gibraltar, a Second World War espionage base, hidden in the Rock of Gibraltar.


Exploring Oradour-sur-Glane, a French town drenched in infamy. Also, Alcatraz, a facility famed for breakouts but also subjected to a daring break-in.
Series 9
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Exploring a royal retreat caught in a web of corruption, an engineering marvel hidden behind the Niagara Falls in Canada, and a subterranean treasure.


Exploring Hartwood, a haunting facility in Scotland, ruins of an ancient city in Iraq and a scandal hit town in New Mexico.


Exploring a complex in Georgia pointing into deep space that almost discovered a signal from aliens.


Exploring a picturesque French castle, the ruins of a Kansas City hospital, an ancient Turkish city, and an island in Ireland that brought its inhabitants closer to God.


Exploring a crumbling dam hidden in the Welsh valleys, a quaint outpost on a paradise island, and a mastery of ancient engineering that brought life to the planes of Mexico.


Exploring a luxury resort in Argentina, a Greek palace above a Mexican city and a former hotel in Hawaii.


Exploring a British fort that became a bizarre zoo, a brutalist school for Communist top brass and a lost world hides secrets of a vanished people.


Exploring a ruined castle above a German village, a rural town in Idaho, a futuristic skyscraper in Johannesburg and a fantasy world outside of Buenos Aires.


Exploring a military strong-hold in the Philippines, a facility that spawned an American sporting great, and an English relic that hosted a cinematic sensation.


This episode features remains of a correctional facility in Atlanta, USA, forgotten remnants of fraud and fusion in Argentina and an ancient complex in Cambodia.


Exploring the remains of a pioneering industry town in Ohio, a once beautiful Croatian resort bombarded by enemy fire, and an otherworldly garden of Eden in Mexico.


Exploring a once-lavish palace in Iraq - the Sathorn Unique - an epic ghost tower in Thailand, and a former sports stadium in Georgia in the United States.
Series 8
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Exploring the honeymoon home of a young princess and grand monuments designed by the most notorious dictator of the twentieth century.


Exploring a bloody battleground on the Pacific Island of Peleliu and an ominous military stronghold in Russia.