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.

Last Updated: 4/20/2025Network: U&YesterdayStatus: Continuing
Raiders & Invaders
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#1 - Raiders & Invaders

Season 10 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/5/2022

Explore Oradour-sur-Glane, a French town drenched in infamy, the victim of a notorious raid, Alcatraz, a facility famed for breakouts, subjected to a daring break-in, and Sealand, a micronation off the English coast, stormed by a band of mercenaries.

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Apocalyptic Skyscraper
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#2 - 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.

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Ruins of Empire
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#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.

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Trouble In Paradise
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#4 - 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.

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Experiments of War
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#5 - Experiments of War

Season 9 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/9/2022

Exploring a crumbling dam hidden in the Welsh valleys, a quaint outpost on a paradise island, and a mastery of ancient engineering that brought life to the planes of Mexico.

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Ancient Encounter
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#6 - Ancient Encounter

Season 9 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/16/2022

Exploring a picturesque French castle, the ruins of a Kansas City hospital, an ancient Turkish city, and an island in Ireland that brought its inhabitants closer to God.

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Alien Contact
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#7 - Alien Contact

Season 9 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/23/2022

Exploring a complex in Georgia pointing into deep space that almost discovered a signal from aliens.

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Treasures To Die For
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#8 - Treasures To Die For

Season 9 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/30/2022

Exploring Hartwood, a haunting facility in Scotland, plus ruins of an ancient city in Iraq and a scandal-hit town in New Mexico.

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Niagara's Hidden Marvel
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#9 - 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.

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Tunnel of Terrors
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#10 - Tunnel of Terrors

Season 9 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/11/2022

Exploring a military strong-hold in the Philippines, a facility that spawned an American sporting great, and an English relic that hosted a cinematic sensation.

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The Rock
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#11 - The Rock

Season 10 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/12/2022

The Tunnels of Gibraltar were a Second World War espionage base hidden in the Rock of Gibraltar. An ingenious US Airforce project that continues to keep us safe is preserved at the Atlas-1 Test Site. At Roghudi Vecchio, an ancient culture is threatened when an Italian town is deserted. At Naissaar, a highly classified Soviet munitions factory is hidden in Estonian forests.

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Enemy At The Gates
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#12 - Enemy At The Gates

Season 10 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/19/2022

Exploring a series of vaults, hidden from view in Edinburgh, Scotland that tell a murky story of opportunity, crime and destitution. The Old Herring Factory is a remote Icelandic facility that significantly impacted the country’s economy; in the calm waters of Croatia’s Adriatic Sea, Fort Punta is a vast fortification; and in the ruins of an Alaskan battleground at Fort Schwatka Unalaska are the remains of an Alaskan battleground where a foreign invader set foot on American soil for the first time since 1812.

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Cowboy Mountain
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#13 - Cowboy Mountain

Season 10 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/26/2022

The remains of Chiatura, formerly known as the Venice of the air, an ingenious sky-high solution to a ground-based problem, were discovered in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. Ghost Town in the Sky was an Appalachian dream that conjured the spirit of the old west, left to rot on a North Carolina mountainside. The enormous Guernsey Hospital was constructed when a portion of Britain was under the Nazi yoke. Houtouwan, a simple Chinese island, was involved in a brutal revolution that brought about a tragic period of mass imprisonment and murder.

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Drone Wars
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#14 - Drone Wars

Season 10 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/3/2022

In a battle decided by a brand-new weapon of war, Agdam, a city in Azerbaijan, was levelled to the ground. In addition, there are two puzzlingly deserted towns in Sicily, a Kansas City Workhouse that seems to have been constructed for the aristocracy, a vast complex in Estonia that inspired a revolution, and more.

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Moonshot
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#15 - 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.

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Rock And Ruin
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#16 - Rock And Ruin

Season 10 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/17/2022

Exploring traces of a mass deception hidden at Ponte Dirillo in Italy, as well as a once lavish theatre in Ohio and an ancient city with a poisonous secret. A once-opulent theatre in Ohio that brought down the house, an ancient city with a poisonous secret that was only recently revealed, a war-torn shell given new purpose by a blockbuster series, and traces of a massive deception buried across an Italian island are just a few examples of the stories that are told in this episode.

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Castle Of The Occult
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#17 - Castle Of The Occult

Season 10 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/24/2022

Explores a dense forest near the Czech capital of Prague that hides Houska Castle, an eerie keep that has been subject to long-standing rumours that it possesses supernatural powers. The ruins of a massive stadium that promised a valiant sporting victory over western rivals lie in the disputed region of Abkhazia; a mysterious castle rumoured to have supernatural powers is hidden in a dense forest not far from Prague; a luxurious hotel was looted by a cruel warlord in Liberia, West Africa; and the scattered ruins of a settlement in north-central Arizona reveal an ancient one that was given life by a deadly force.

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The Green Mile
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#18 - 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.

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The Beached Leviathan
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#19 - 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.

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Jungle Fantasy Land
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#20 - 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.

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Megalomaniac's Palace
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#21 - Megalomaniac's Palace

Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/21/2022

Exploring a once lavish palace in Iraq, the Sathorn Unique, an epic ghost tower in Thailand, and a former sports stadium in Georgia, USA

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Before The Crown
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#22 - Before The Crown

Season 8 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/15/2021

Exploring the honeymoon home of a young princess and grand monuments designed by the most notorious dictator of the 20th century.

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Death In Paradise
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#23 - Death In Paradise

Season 8 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/8/2021

Exploring a bloody battleground on the Pacific Island of Peleliu and an ominous military stronghold in Russia.

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Shadow of the Wars
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#24 - Shadow of the Wars

Season 8 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/1/2021

Exploring a dystopian powerhouse in Pennsylvania, USA, a fairy-tale castle in Poland and AngloSaxon religious ruins across vast plains of Scotland.

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Divine Intervention
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#25 - Divine Intervention

Season 8 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/24/2021

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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