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 141 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in August 2026.
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Exploring Yongma Land - a South Korean dreamland given a second life from the most unlikely of places.
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1:00:00A symbol of national pride that became a symbol of excess in the Turkish capital of Ankara.
50:00Exploring Old Byron Hot Springs in the Californian desert - a once glittering Hollywood hotspot, converted into a top-secret interrogation centre.
1:00:00Exploring Dover Commando Fortress in South East England, where traces of a top-secret Commando raid are still visible.
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1:00:00A seemingly endless concrete line stretching through the French countryside, which sits as a monument to a discarded engineering advancement.
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50:00Exploring a theme park in Buenos Aires built in a time of terror and dogged by controversy, and a jaw-dropping collection of castles in Turkey.
1:00:00Exploring Haludovo Palace Hotel in Croatia, Wolf's Lair, a German military complex and Herouni Mirror Radio Telescope - a pioneering facility in Armenia.
50:00Exploring Air Studios, on the Island of Montserrat, that became a mecca for rock legends. Also Tskaltubo, in Georgia, built to host a fearsome dictator.
Series 10 1:00:00
1:00:00Exploring the Dew Drop Inn in New Orleans, a music mecca that dared to take on the authorities and paid the price, and Belgica Fort, built to defend an unlikely treasure.
50:00Exploring a decrepit Liberian landmark with American origins, a desolate town in Belgium and a pioneering scientific structure in Cleveland.
1:00:00Exploring a grand structure in Hull that was reduced to rubble by Hitler's planes, Casa Albero in Italy, USS Hornet in California and the Sofia tunnels.
50:00Exploring Serbia, Fort Pike in Louisiana, and a mountainside refuge in Georgia that was revealed to the world by an act of God.
1:00:00Exploring a dense forest near the Czech capital of Prague that hides Houska Castle, an eerie castle rumoured to possess supernatural powers.
50:00Exploring traces of a mass deception hidden at Ponte Dirillo in Italy, as well as a once-lavish theatre in Ohio and an ancient city with a poisonous secret.
1:00:00Exploring an industrial ruin in the Florida Everglades that once competed in the greatest race humankind has ever witnessed.
50:00Exploring Agdam, a city in Azerbaijan raised to the ground in a conflict decided by a new weapon of war.
1:05:00Exploring the remains of an ingenious sky-high solution to a ground-based problem, Chiatura, once know as the Venice of the air.
50:00Exploring a series of vaults, hidden from view in Edinburgh, Scotland that tell a murky story of opportunity, crime and destitution.
1:00:00Exploring the Tunnels of Gibraltar, a Second World War espionage base, hidden in the Rock of Gibraltar.
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1:00:00A settlement in Argentina destroyed by floods, a town in the US that has been erased, and a Soviet dream-town that turned into a nuclear nightmare.