The BEST episodes of Abandoned Engineering season 4
Every episode of Abandoned Engineering season 4, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Abandoned Engineering season 4!
As the saying goes – they probably seemed like good ideas at the time. The world is peppered with examples of incredible engineering projects and buildings designed to make life easier for those that used them, amaze those that came to see them, and make money for those that ordered, designed and built them. They were the stuff of dreams. Each and every one of these extraordinary places is home to a wealth of powerful and compelling stories. We’ll see and hear about some of the most spectacular examples of abandoned engineering the world has ever known. We’ll show how and why they were built, consider the financial and social costs of their failure and examine the environmental and ecological impacts.
#1 - Guernsey Nazi Towers
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/11/2019
A little-known dark past explains the vast monolithic structures that dominate the small British island of Guernsey.
#2 - The World's Strangest Ghost Town
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/27/2019
A 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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#3 - Tunnel To The Underworld
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/25/2019
A town in West Virginia that fell victim to the pace of change when steam trains became obsolete and an underground complex in Italy that had been abandoned for nearly 2,000 years.
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#4 - 1936 Olympic Village Berlin
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/28/2019
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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#5 - Pyramiden Norway
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/31/2019
A strange-looking deserted town with an almost supernatural atmosphere on a remote Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean was in fact an ambitious Soviet mining outpost with a tragic history. Also, a collection of imposing buildings on the southern tip of Australia, the remains of curious-looking basins emerging from the waves in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge and the ruins of a monumental construction project in southern Germany that was a ruthless regime's deadly prototype.
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#6 - Palace of Death
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/4/2019
A seemingly endless concrete line stretching through the French countryside, which sits as a monument to a discarded engineering advancement.
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#7 - Behind The Berlin Wall
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/7/2019
Once they were at the heart of the Communist empire, now they lie abandoned leaving only memories of a time before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now, each haunted shell is ready to reveal its own story. Still standing today, a fierce-looking prison and an innocuous looking office building in Berlin were actually the headquarters of a feared and ruthless organisation - the Stazi. Also, a covert Communist base hid Cold War submarines for Tito, the former leader of Yugoslavia on the island of Vis. A seemingly innocuous sports centre hides a sinister underground bunker. And the former HQ of the Soviet Army in East Germany was a forbidden Soviet city within a city - the vast site in the East of Berlin is still abandoned today but its architecture still impresses and even the statues of Lenin still stand in this visually remarkable, place from another time.
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#8 - Bodie USA
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/18/2019
Projects include a maze of tunnels filled with haunting remains beneath the streets of Paris and a strange formation of domed structures hovering over the waters off Florida.
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#9 - Buckner Building Alaska
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/21/2019
A vast snowcovered monster in the icy wilderness of southern Alaska, a ruined super structure that overshadows everything around it in and a landscape of confusing and surprising structures that once represented a bold statement of Spain's plans for the future. Plus, a long, winding formation that was once supposed to help defend Hitler's Third Reich. And in Budapest, Hungary, the stripped skeleton of an industrial relic lies rusting away.
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#10 - Villa De Vecchi Rhodes
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/8/2019
A 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.
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#11 - Escobar's Ruin
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/1/2019
Features a ruined compound in Colombia which was once home to Pablo Escobar and alien-looking structures with no apparent purpose, isolated in an empty English marshland in Denge, near Dungeness in Kent. But how and why were they ever built at all, and why are they now left abandoned?
#12 - Bannack USA
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/14/2019
A sprawling Wild West ghost town sits peaceful and abandoned in Montana, USA, but is still haunted by tales of murder, corruption and buried treasure. Also, a cold, dark, underground mountain network that cost the lives of thousands... the crumbling ruins of an English industry that turned poison into profit... a peaceful village that was shattered by the terrors of war.