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These are some of the most spectacular examples of abandoned engineering the world has ever known. The series explores how and why they were built, consider the financial and social costs of their failure and examine the environmental and ecological impacts. The series also explores how experts came up with plans to make something beautiful or useful from the ruins.
Episode 12 : The Drop
November. 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.
Episode 11 : An American Exodus
November. 14,2022
Exploring a decrepit Liberian landmark with American origins, a desolate town in Belgium and a pioneering scientific structure in Cleveland.
Episode 10 : Blitz Spirit
November. 07,2022
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.
Episode 9 : The Green Line
October. 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.
Episode 8 : Castle Of The Occult
October. 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.
Episode 7 : Rock And Ruin
October. 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.
Episode 6 : Moonshot
October. 10,2022
Exploring an industrial ruin in the Florida Everglades that once competed in the greatest race humankind has ever witnessed.
Episode 5 : Drone Wars
October. 03,2022
Exploring Agdam, a city in Azerbaijan raised to the ground in a conflict decided by a new weapon of war.
Episode 4 : Cowboy Mountain
September. 26,2022
Exploring the remains of an ingenious sky-high solution to a ground-based problem, Chiatura, once know as the Venice of the air
Episode 3 : Enemy At The Gates
September. 19,2022
Exploring a series of vaults, hidden from view in Edinburgh, Scotland that tell a murky story of opportunity, crime and destitution.
Episode 2 : The Rock
September. 12,2022
The Tunnels of Gibraltar were a Second World War espionage base, hidden in the Rock of Gibraltar, which lay undiscovered for decades. At Atlas-1 Test Site, are the remains of an ingenious US Airforce project that continues to keep people safe.
Episode 1 : Raiders & Invaders
September. 05,2022
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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