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 July 2025.
Last broadcast:18/07/2025 at 01:00
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Abandoned Engineering
A vast project in the wilderness of southern Alaska, and a landscape of confusing structures that represented a bold statement of Spain's plans for the future.
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A sprawling Wild West ghost town sits peaceful and abandoned in Montana, USA, but is still haunted by tales of murder, corruption an buried treasure.


Ruins include a covert Communist base that hid Cold War submarines for Tito and the former HQ of the Soviet Army in East Germany.


A town with a supernatural atmosphere, a collection of imposing buildings in southern Australia, and the remains of curious-looking basins emerging from the waves.


A formerly luxurious and strategic mountain-top villa on the island of Rhodes in the Mediterranean that's been ravaged by acts of revenge by locals since 1955.


A ruined compound on the edge of a peninsula in Colombia which was once home to a famous outlaw and the strange towers looming over red-tinted waters in a Portuguese landscape.


A West Virginia town that fell victim to change when steam trains became obsolete and an underground complex in Italy that'd been abandoned for nearly 2,000 years.


Projects include a maze of tunnels filled with haunting remains beneath the streets of Paris and a formation of domed structures hovering over the waters off the Florida coastline.


A little-known dark past explains the vast monolithic structures that dominate the small British island of Guernsey.


A seemingly endless concrete line stretching through the French countryside, which sits as a monument to a discarded engineering advancement.


A 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.
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A country village hiding a sad secret, a mysterious tower scarred by war, a town decaying in the desert and a railway deep beneath a city are featured.


A village ruin, pitted and scarred, a ghostly fleet of ships, a bridge to nowhere hidden in a forest and strange metal structures in a wood all feature.


Hidden tunnels that saw a city prosper, a sunken wreck with a remarkable past, a concrete wartime dome and a mysterious cold war building all feature.




The remarkable projects include a towering structure with an explosive past, a deserted cityscape, a mysterious top-secret facility and a vast Nazi construction.


Concrete channels hidden in a mountaintop forest, a collapsing bridge, a marooned military base and the upright rusting carcass of a ship are all featured.


An abandoned prison beneath the water, a tunnel in the heart of a mountain, concrete towers hidden in the woods and a rusting coastal relic.


The programme looks at a mysterious group of rusting ships stranded in an arid desert, and a monstrous defensive line on the snow-covered peaks of the Italian Alps.
Series 1
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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.