In season two, we explore how and why the most spectacular examples of abandoned engineering the world has ever known were built.
S2 E7: Episode 7
An industrial site lost in a forest. An American installation that waged the Cold War. An abandoned tower. A derelict ruin on a sand dune. Who built them? And why were they abandoned?
S1 E1: Silent Cities
Empty buildings and infrastructures are full of the echoes of real people and vanished lives, leaving many questions unanswered and mysteries unsolved.
S1 E2: Mission Space
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.
S1 E3: Lost Bridges
Soaring across some of the widest rivers and deepest valleys on the planet, bridges have always been at the cutting edge of engineering.
S1 E4: Ghost Ships
Dive into the past to find out how the largest mass scuttling of ships in history was linked with medical research and the space programme. We ask why the US government spent millions on a fleet of war ships in WWI, then deliberately destroyed them.
S1 E5: Quest For Power
We tap into the history of electricity to find out if a giant structure rusting away in the contaminated zone around Grenoble could have started World War III.
S1 E6: Roads To Nowhere
We explore some of the world's strangest abandoned roads and transport links, and ask, why did survival in WWI come to depend on a narrow track cut into a sheer cliff face?
S2 E1: Britain's Sea Fort Complex
Strange structures rusting away at sea...an abandoned concrete pyramid... ...a huge machine, forgotten in a field....an empty complex in a city. Who built them? And why were they abandoned?
S2 E2: Germany's Lost Warship
A technological masterpiece lost to the sea. A mysterious concrete giant. A strange structure built on a river. A marvel in the Arctic. Who built them? And why were they abandoned?
S2 E3: Abandoned Nazi Railway
An abandoned Nazi station. A military base in the US Desert. A lost Arctic facility that goes deep. A huge desolate industrial area. Who built them? And why were they abandoned?
S2 E4: Battle of Britain Technology Facility
A vital lost military facility. A facility in a sprawling desert. Towers in an industrial wasteland. An extraordinary sight high on a mountain. Who built them? And why were they abandoned?
S2 E5: Episode 5
An abandoned concrete wall. Five strange deserted structures. A lost escape route from nuclear Armageddon. A submerged link to D-day. Who built them? And why were they abandoned?
S2 E6: Episode 6
An American symbol lost to the jungle. Concrete monoliths in a European forest. A vast cold war relic. A bizarre structure built to speed trade. Who built them? And why were they abandoned?
S2 E8: Lost Highway in the Rainforest
A highway in the jungle that leads nowhere. A fortress on the edge of the sea. Forgotten bunkers in the Alps. A mysterious manmade island. Who built them, and why were they abandoned?
S2 E9: The Desert Ghost Fleet
Rusting ships stranded in a desert; a mountaintop defensive line; a ghostly collection of buildings; sunken remains of a unique vessel. Now they lie disused, contaminated, and dangerous. But who built them? And why were they abandoned?
S2 E10: The Underwater Prison
An abandoned prison beneath the water; a tunnel in the heart of a mountain; concrete towers hidden in the woods; a rusting coastal relic. Now they lie disused, contaminated, and dangerous. But who built them? And why were they abandoned?
S2 E11: Episode 11
Concrete channels hidden in a mountaintop forest; a collapsing bridge; a marooned military base; the upright rusting carcass of a ship. Now they lie disused, contaminated, and dangerous. But who built them? And why were they abandoned?
S2 E12: Sabotage In The Mountains
A towering structure with an explosive past; a deserted cityscape; a mysterious top-secret facility; a vast Nazi construction. Now they lie disused, contaminated and dangerous. But who built them? And why were they abandoned?
S2 E13: Episode 13
A devastated cliff-top ruin; an extraordinary tall tower; a concrete structure stranded at sea; a heavy metal monster in a field. Now they lie disused, contaminated, and dangerous. But who built them? And why were they abandoned?
S2 E14: Hitler's Wonder Weapons Bunker
Hidden tunnels that saw a city prosper; a sunken wreck with a remarkable past; a concrete wartime dome; a mysterious cold war building. Now they lie disused, contaminated, and dangerous. But who built them? And why were they abandoned?
S2 E15: Episode 15
A village ruin, pitted and scarred; a ghostly fleet of ships; a bridge to nowhere hidden in a forest; strange metal structures in woods. Now they lie disused, contaminated, and dangerous. But who built them? And why were they abandoned?
S2 E16: Episode 16
A country village hiding a sad secret; a mysterious tower scarred by war; a town decaying in the desert; a railway deep beneath a city. Now they lie disused, contaminated, and dangerous. But who built them? And why were they abandoned?
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