The WORST episodes of Abandoned Engineering
Every episode of Abandoned Engineering ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Abandoned Engineering!
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 - Spike Island
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/8/2020
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.
#2 - Moonshot
Season 10 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/10/2022
An industrial ruin in the Florida Everglades that once took part in the greatest race the human race has ever seen; a community in Indonesia torn apart by a terrifying and deadly unseen force; the graffiti-covered walls of an Ibizan legend hinting at a fun-loving past; and a Bulgarian school hiding an ambitious and covert plan for retaliation.
#3 - Ruins of Empire
Season 9 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/25/2022
Exploring a British fort that became a bizzare zoo, a brutalist school for Communist top brass and a lost world hides secrets of a vanished people.
#4 - Niagara's Hidden Marvel
Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/6/2022
Exploring a royal retreat caught in a web of corruption, an engineering marvel hidden behind the Niagara Falls in Canada, and a subterranean treasure.
#5 - 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.
#6 - Trouble In Paradise
Season 9 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/2/2022
Exploring a luxury resort in Argentina, a Greek palace above a Mexican city and a former hotel in Hawaii.
#7 - Bunker Nation
Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/24/2020
A small isolated country littered with strange concrete mushrooms and a secret Japanese facility that was once at the forefront of weapons technology.
#8 - Jungle Fantasy Land
Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/28/2022
Exploring the remains of a pioneering industry town in Ohio, a once beautiful Croatian resort bombarded by enemy fire, and an otherworldly garden of Eden in Mexico.
#9 - The Battle of San Pietro
Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/17/2021
Featuring Italian ruins immortalised by Hollywood, a crumbling Chilean city with two lives and a brutalist Scottish relic whose prayers went unanswered.
#10 - The Beached Leviathan
Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/4/2022
The graffitied remains of a correctional facility in Atlanta, USA with a controversial and unexpected past, forgotten remnants of fraud and fusion on the Western border of Argentina and a mysterious ancient complex built by a devoted Khmer King in the jungles of Cambodia.
#11 - A Royal Deception
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/13/2021
Exploring a jungle refuge concealing a story of royal deceit, nuclear bunkers infiltrated by outsiders, and a haunted hospital marked by scandal.
#12 - Global Icons
Season 7 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/31/2021
Bizarrely-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.
#13 - 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?
#14 - Fortress of the Sky
Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/10/2021
Eerie ruins hiding in the forested hills of Arkansas, USA, and a disintegrating gulag in Albania that housed enemies of the state.
#15 - Mission: Space
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/25/2017
We aim for the stars and find out why unwanted battleship guns allow the United States to gain vital information about the borders of space. We ask how the shattered remains of a secret Nazi base became the first on the path to a new world, with the development of the ground-breaking V2 rocket. We explore a forgotten structure deep in the Arizona desert to ask if it is the true home of America's space programme. And we reveal the bizarre link between a discarded oil drum and a Cold War struggle to survive in zero gravity.
#16 - The True Cross
Season 11 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/12/2023
Exploring Old Byron Hot Springs in the Californian desert - a once glittering Hollywood hotspot, converted into a top-secret interrogation centre.
#17 - The Drop
Season 10 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/21/2022
Exploring the Dew Drop Inn in New Orleans that dared to take on the authorities and paid the price and Belgica Fort, built to defend an unlikely treasure. The Dew Drop Inn, a New Orleans music mecca that defied the law and paid the price; Belgica Fort, an epic ruin constructed to protect an unlikely treasure; and the aftereffects of West-81, a military exercise that shook the West to its core.
#18 - An American Exodus
Season 10 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/14/2022
Exploring a decrepit Liberian landmark with American origins, a desolate town in Belgium and a pioneering scientific structure in Cleveland. Doel, a ghost town in Belgium, stands in the shadow of its destroyer. Chacaltaya Ski Resort in Bolivia is a high-altitude retreat that was once a world-class sporting resort but has been robbed of its lifeblood by a global threat. Warner & Swasey, a groundbreaking scientific building in Cleveland, has been rendered obsolete by light pollution.
#19 - Blitz Spirit
Season 10 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/7/2022
Exploring a grand structure in Hull that was reduced to rubble by Hitler's planes, Casa Albero in Italy, USS Hornet in California and the Sofia tunnels. This episode looks at the Casa Albero in Italy, the USS Hornet in California, and the Sofia tunnels. Also a grand building in Hull that was once the centre of the community was destroyed by Hitler’s planes while those inside were laughing at him on the big screen.
#20 - The Green Mile
Season 10 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/31/2022
Exploring Serbia, Fort Pike in Louisiana, and a mountainside refuge in Georgia that was revealed to the world by an act of God.
#21 - Apocalyptic Skyscraper
Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/18/2022
Exploring a ruined castle above a German village, a rural town in Idaho, a futuristic skyscraper in Johannesburg and a fantasy world outside of Buenos Aires.
#22 - Cathedral of Sewage
Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/3/2021
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.
#23 - The Giant Speaker
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/27/2021
Exploring a bizarre block in Taiwan resembling a giant speaker, a pioneering venture in Alaska, and an alpine village that masks a military beast.
#24 - Mafia Seaside Resort
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/20/2021
Exploring a beachside resort with ties to the Russian mafia, a windswept base hiding lifesaving technology, and a site in Iowa plagued by its past.
#25 - Paradise Lost
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/6/2021
Exploring a ghost town in Colorado, the remnants of an industrial enterprise in Puerto Rico, and a remote village on Cyprus.