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 145 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in March 2026.
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1:00:00Abandoned Engineering
Seven huge steel boxes stand rusting in the Thames Estuary. Hear how the Red Sands sea fort was once Britain's first line of defence against the Nazis.
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1:00:00Hear how the Politz synthetic fuel plant in Poland, now a derelict site, was once central to Nazi Germany's drive to become self-sufficient on fuel.
Series 9
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1:00:00Exploring a royal retreat caught in a web of corruption, an engineering marvel hidden behind the Niagara Falls in Canada, and a subterranean treasure.
1:00:00Exploring Hartwood, a haunting facility in Scotland, ruins of an ancient city in Iraq and a scandal hit town in New Mexico.
Series 3 1:00:00
1:00:00A 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.
Series 9 1:00:00
1:00:00Exploring a complex in Georgia pointing into deep space that almost discovered a signal from aliens.
1:00:00Exploring 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.
1:00:00Exploring a luxury resort in Argentina, a Greek palace above a Mexican city and a former hotel in Hawaii.
1:00:00Exploring 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.
1:00:00Exploring 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.
1:00:00Exploring a military strong-hold in the Philippines, a facility that spawned an American sporting great, and an English relic that hosted a cinematic sensation.
1:00:00This episode features remains of a correctional facility in Atlanta, USA, forgotten remnants of fraud and fusion in Argentina and an ancient complex in Cambodia.
1:00:00Exploring 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.
1:00:00Exploring 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 1:00:00
Exploring the honeymoon home of a young princess and grand monuments designed by the most notorious dictator of the twentieth century.
1:00:00Series 3 1:00:00
1:00:00Hidden 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.
Series 8 1:00:00
1:00:00Exploring a bloody battleground on the Pacific Island of Peleliu and an ominous military stronghold in Russia.
1:00:00Exploring a dystopian powerhouse in Pennsylvania, a fairy-tale castle in Poland, and Anglo-Saxon religious ruins across the vast plains of Scotland.
1:00:00Exploring a luxury resort that conceals a top-secret facility, a mysterious complex in Bali struck by disaster, and a relic of hope near Jerusalem.
1:00:00Exploring Italian ruins immortalised by Hollywood, a crumbling Chilean city with two lives and a brutalist Scottish relic whose prayers went unanswered.