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 144 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in February 2026.
Last broadcast:05/02/2026 at 02:00
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1:00:00Abandoned Engineering
Legendary film sets with surprising pasts and real locations that inspired Hollywood. Within these decaying structures are the echoes of history.
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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
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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
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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.
1:00:00A now silent site that played a pivotal role defending the U.S through the 20th century. Plus, a crumbling Italian fortress and a ghostly Ukrainian mansion.
1:50:00A two-hour special featuring a deserted Caribbean city, an American ghost town still burning and an Arctic settlement facing a terrifying future.
Series 3
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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.
Series 6
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1:00:00A complex of stone buildings near Hadrian's Wall that were built to keep Northern hoards at bay! Also, a top secret military facility in the American Midwest.
1:00:00Within a dense Polish woodland sits a forgotten complex with an explosive history. Also, grand coastal defences in Ghana reveal a tortured past.
Series 15
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1:00:00Exploring a remote Peruvian island besieged by a violent rebellion, a refuge in Nevada that offered hope to its occupants, and a French worker's paradise seized by an invading force.
Series 6
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1:00:00Examining a ghost island once belonging to a secretive country on the fringes of Europe. Also, a haunting site in the UK with evidence of strange burial practices.
1:00:00What happened to an infamous pirate city in Jamaica? Also, a grim gulag in Croatia and a Louisiana plantation caught up in the aftermath of the American Civil War.
Series 5
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1:00:00An Albanian village home to Allied secret agents devastated for resisting the Nazi war machine, plus a notorious asylum in America that enforced lobotomies on a large scale.
Series 3
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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.
Series 5
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1:00:00An American prison for the violent and deranged with links to an infamous cult leader, and a cavernous tunnel network in France offering shelter from unrelenting bombardment.
1:00:00Forgotten relics from the defence of America's homeland, concealed by the banks of the Mississippi, and a concrete behemoth on the French coast that proved invulnerable.
Series 15
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1:00:00Exploring a Philadelphia venue that set the stage for era-defining artists, a French compound where a staggering deception was launched, and a the scene of a baffling crime in Malaysia.
Series 5
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1:00:00A marooned ironclad structure off the coast of England that hides a dramatic story of war and resilience, and a facility in America that helped tear apart a nation.