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 137 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in December 2025.
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1:00:00Abandoned Engineering
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.
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1:00:00Projects 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.
1:00:00A little-known dark past explains the vast monolithic structures that dominate the small British island of Guernsey.
Series 15
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1:00:00Exploring a Dover stronghold transformed during an unprecedented crisis, and a top-secret site in Japan used for wartime missions of no return.
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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.
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.
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1:00:00A 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.
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.
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 15 1:00:00
1:00:00Exploring Nazi towers in Berlin that were defended to the bitter end by child soldiers, a Chicago institution that was the largest of its kind, and an odd vision in the Malaysian jungle.
Series 3 1:00:00
1:00:00A devastated cliff-top ruin, an extraordinary tall tower, a concrete structure stranded at sea and a heavy metal monster in a field all feature.
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.
1:00:00Concrete channels hidden in a mountaintop forest, a collapsing bridge, a marooned military base and the upright rusting carcass of a ship are all featured.
1:00:00An abandoned prison beneath the water, a tunnel in the heart of a mountain, concrete towers hidden in the woods and a rusting coastal relic.
1:00:00The 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 15 1:00:00
1:00:00Exploring a serene institution in Wisconsin seized out of righteous anger, a Spanish settlement stained in innocent blood, and a subterranean lair in France with a disturbing objective.
Series 1 1:00:00
1:00:00Hear 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.
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1:00:00Hidden in the Brazilian jungle is the Petrobras Viaduct, an extraordinary highway that seemingly leads nowhere. Who built it and why?
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1:00:00Hear about the disused structures that were once at the forefront of power supply, including Budapest's Kelenfold Power Station and New York's Wardenclyffe Tower.
1:00:00Hear about some once-great triumphs of marine engineering, now left to rust. A ship graveyard in Maryland has been colonised by wildlife. We go inside a Cold War sub.