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 January 2026.
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1:00:00Abandoned Engineering
A pioneering complex marked by both glory and tragedy that's soon to be lost forever, and towering remains from an industrial age.
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1:00:00A vast project in the wilderness of southern Alaska, and a landscape of confusing structures that represented a bold statement of Spain's plans for the future.
50:00A sprawling Wild West ghost town sits peaceful and abandoned in Montana, USA, but is still haunted by tales of murder, corruption an buried treasure.
1:00:00Ruins include a covert Communist base that hid Cold War submarines for Tito and the former HQ of the Soviet Army in East Germany.
1:00:00A town with a supernatural atmosphere, a collection of imposing buildings in southern Australia, and the remains of curious-looking basins emerging from the waves.
Series 15
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1:00:00Exploring the nerve centre of a heroic rescue mission in England, a dilapidated mansion in Virginia raided during the Civil War, and a facility in Detroit where a champion made his name.
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1:00:00A formerly luxurious and strategic mountain-top villa on the island of Rhodes in the Mediterranean that's been ravaged by acts of revenge by locals since 1955.
1:00:00A ruined compound on the edge of a peninsula in Colombia which was once home to a famous outlaw and the strange towers looming over red-tinted waters in a Portuguese landscape.
Series 15 1:00:00
1:00:00Exploring a top-secret military base in Michigan linked to an unexplained disappearance, and a California transportation hub that inspired lasting change.
1:00:00Exploring a towering structure in London on the banks of the river Thames, witness to the city's darkest days, and a Wisconsin farmstead that brewed up a storm.
Series 4 1:00:00
1:00:00A 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.
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 1:00:00
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.
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.
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.
Series 3 1:00:00
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.
1:00:00Series 15, Episode 8 - The Invisible Enemy
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Exploring a top-secret facility in Scotland besieged by militant protesters, and a small Greek island caught in a chilling web of controversy.