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 141 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in August 2026.
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50:00Abandoned Engineering
Exploring Opa-Locka City Hall, a strange structure that began as the dream of an American Renaissance man, but soon turned into a nightmare.
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1:00:00Exploring Seodaemun Prison, a facility in Seoul that helped spawn a legend known as South Korea's Joan of Arc.
50:00Exploring the ruined site of Troy, that helped decode one of the world's most enduring mysteries.
1:00:00Exploring Anchieta, a tropical island complex in Brazil and the scene of a dramatic uprising.
Series 2
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1:00:00Hear the fateful story of the disused Vajont Dam in Italy, the site of a tragic disaster in 1963 which resulted in the deaths of around 2,000 people.
Series 12 50:00
50:00Exploring a country estate in Ireland where family divisions reflected a national struggle and was caught in the crossfire.
1:00:00Exploring the Apollo Movie Theatre in Tbilisi, Georgia, an ornate shrine to Soviet propaganda.
Series 2 50:00
50:00Seven 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.
Series 12 50:00
50:00Exploring Camp Hero in Long Island, and a salt mine in Poland.
1:00:00Exploring Castel Volturno in Campana in Italy, Colorado and HMP Shepton Mallet in Somerset.
Series 2 50:00
50:00Hear 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 12 50:00
50:00An exploration of Chateau Aubery on the island of Martinique, where a criminal kingpin wiped out the opposition.
Series 11 1:00:00
1:00:00Exploring Old Joliet Prison, a battered facility near Chicago that descended into open war, but then hosted the Blues Brothers!
50:00Exploring Yongma Land - a South Korean dreamland given a second life from the most unlikely of places.
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A 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.
Series 4 1:00:00
1:00:00A seemingly endless concrete line stretching through the French countryside, which sits as a monument to a discarded engineering advancement.
Series 11 50:00
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.