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 - 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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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