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 2024. A total of 133 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in September 2025.
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Exploring a luxury resort that conceals a top-secret facility, a mysterious complex in Bali struck by disaster, and a relic of hope near Jerusalem.
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1:00:00Exploring Italian ruins immortalised by Hollywood, a crumbling Chilean city with two lives and a brutalist Scottish relic whose prayers went unanswered.
1:00:00Exploring a desert island with an infected past adrift from the US mainland, the brutalist palace of a mad Bulgarian dictator, and a doomed top-secret Nazi project.
1:00:00Exploring an ominous tower in the forests of Croatia, a New York City complex that broke the mould, and a grand facility guarding the London riverbanks.
1:00:00Exploring a bizarre block in Taiwan resembling a giant speaker, a pioneering venture in Alaska, and an alpine village that masks a military beast.
1:00:00Exploring a beachside resort with ties to the Russian mafia, a windswept base hiding lifesaving technology, and a site in Iowa plagued by its past.
1:00:00Exploring a jungle refuge concealing a story of royal deceit, nuclear bunkers infiltrated by outsiders, and a haunted hospital marked by scandal.
1:00:00Exploring a ghost town in Colorado, the remnants of an industrial enterprise in Puerto Rico, and a remote village on Cyprus.
1:00:00The 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.
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.
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.