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 2025. A total of 145 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in February 2026.
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1:00:00Abandoned Engineering
The home of an African dictator and a sporting hero - and the facility that held apartheid's greatest critic - are abandoned but still have unique stories to tell.
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1:00:00Bizarrely-shaped huts in India, once home to global superstars, are now eerily quiet and neglected, and a shattered compound in Colombia linked to a criminal mastermind.
1:00:00A 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.
1:00:00A volcanic island just off Taiwan containing chilling ruins from its darkest era, and a zoo lies forgotten in the woods of Arkansas.
Series 15
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1:00:00Exploring a secret subterranean network in London that inspired James Bond author Ian Fleming, and an Italian country retreat that was designed to brainwash a generation of children.
Series 7 1:00:00
1:00:00Eerie ruins hide in the forested hills of Arkansas, plus a disintegrating gulag in Albania that housed enemies of the state.
1:00:00A 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.
1:00:00A real-life concrete jungle in America's 'Rust Belt', and an industrial facility that brought energy to a remote corner of the world.
1:00:00An iron monster lost in the Alaskan tundra, a Crusader fort thrown into a modern conflict, and a prison built to house a mafia kingpin.
1:00:00An American desert canyon where fortunes were made and lives were lost and an island fortress in Scotland with an Achilles heel.
1:00:00An engineering masterpiece carved into the cliff-face, and a long-range beacon that transmitted one of the most infamous messages in American history.
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1:00:00The remarkable projects include a towering structure with an explosive past, a deserted cityscape, a mysterious top-secret facility and a vast Nazi construction.
Series 7 1:00:00
1:00:00Ruins 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.
1:00:00In 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.
1:00:00Legendary film sets with surprising pasts and real locations that inspired Hollywood. Within these decaying structures are the echoes of history.
Series 6 1:00:00
1:00:00New. 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.
Series 15 1:00:00
1:00:00Exploring a secret New Jersey facility infiltrated by a Soviet spy ring, an island stronghold besieged by the Nazis, and a palatial compound in Peru frequented by the country's elite.
Series 6 1:00:00
1:00:00New. A small isolated country littered with strange concrete mushrooms and a secret Japanese facility that was once at the forefront of weapons technology.
1:00:00New. The mysterious Cachtice Castle home to Elizabeth Bathory, said to have killed over 600 girls and a mysterious structure on the 38th parallel.
1:00:00A 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.