Abandoned Engineering
Abandoned Engineering is a TV show on Yesterday. Exploring unfinished structures of steel and iron, revealing what they could have been. The program has been available since 2025. A total of 135 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in December 2025.
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1:00:00Abandoned Engineering
Hear how a crumbling hill in the Peak District and dunes in California caused the closure of two roads. Learn why a route used by the French Resistance shut in 2003.
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Hidden in the Brazilian jungle is the Petrobras Viaduct, an extraordinary highway that seemingly leads nowhere. Who built it and why?
Series 1
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1:00:00Hear about the disused structures that were once at the forefront of power supply, including Budapest's Kelenfold Power Station and New York's Wardenclyffe Tower.
1:00:00Hear about some once-great triumphs of marine engineering, now left to rust. A ship graveyard in Maryland has been colonised by wildlife. We go inside a Cold War sub.
1:00:00Hear about some magnificent bridges that time forgot. A hurricane put paid to Goat Canyon Trestle in California, while Kinzua Viaduct was destroyed by a tornado.
1:00:00The eerie world of abandoned Space Age projects. What became of the HARP gun in Barbados and the mountainside Barcroft Observatory in California? Find out today.
Series 15 1:00:00
1:00:00Exploring a complex in New Jersey infiltrated by a notorious gang, a tranquil Japanese island with a poisonous legacy, and a top-secret bunker in Lithuania raided in the name of freedom.
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1:00:00What is left behind when urban areas are abandoned? Hear about some remarkable ghost towns, including Pripyat - frozen in time after Chernobyl - and Hashima Island.
Series 13 1:00:00
1:00:00Exploring Fort Sherman, a jungle stronghold in Panama built to defend a prized American possession that soon faced the threat of an elaborate Nazi conspiracy.
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1:00:00The Georg Thiele was a technological masterpiece, but now it is a shipwreck, lost to the sea after running aground during a naval battle in WWII.
Series 13 1:00:00
1:00:00Exploring the Polish city of Walbrzych, where a fairy-tale castle on a cliff conceals a vast subterranean tunnel network linked to a legend of lost Nazi gold.
1:00:00Exploring decaying remains of Old Essex County Jail in New Jersey, a facility that became a powder keg of injustice that was set to explode.
1:00:00Exploring Schindler's Ark in the Czech Republic, a secret refuge in Europe's killing fields, and a lost Amazonian paradise deep in the Brazilian rainforest.
1:00:00We explore Fort Amador, the site of an American invasion in Panama, and a grisly Polish facility that once caged members of a revolutionary movement.
1:00:00Exploring to the Tunisian desert and a vast chain of ruins that once stood in the way of Allied Victory - until a band of rogue heroes uncovered their weakness.
Series 2 1:00:00
1:00:00Henry Ford's Fordlandia Rubber Town has been left to rot in the Amazon Rainforest, but it was once a symbol of the American dream.
Series 13 1:00:00
1:00:00Exploring Namibia's arid Skeleton Coast, where traces of a brutal but once vital industry lie scattered.
1:00:00Exploring Opa-Locka City Hall, a strange structure that began as the dream of an American Renaissance man, but soon turned into a nightmare.
Series 12 1:00:00
1:00:00Exploring Seodaemun Prison, a facility in Seoul that helped spawn a legend known as South Korea's Joan of Arc.
1:00:00Series 15, Episode 2 - Hitler's Fortress of Fury
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Exploring a serene institution in Wisconsin seized out of righteous anger, a Spanish settlement stained in innocent blood, and a subterranean lair in France with a disturbing objective.