Abandoned Engineering - Season 11
Season 11
This documentary series takes a closer look at dilapidated and abandoned exploring structures around the world - forgotten fragments of incredible engineering feats, sprawling ghost towns, puzzling industrial complexes, and sinister remains from bloody conflicts.
Each haunted shell tells its own unique story as to how and why it was built and what factors then came in to play that saw it neglected.
Episodes
Rock 'N' Roll Island
Exploring Air Studios, on the Island of Montserrat, that became a mecca for rock legends. Also Tskaltubo, in Georgia, built to host a fearsome dictator.
Penthouse Palace
Exploring Haludovo Palace Hotel in Croatia, Wolf's Lair, a German military complex and Herouni Mirror Radio Telescope - a pioneering facility in Armenia.
Castle Kingdom
Exploring a theme park in Buenos Aires built in a time of terror and dogged by controversy, and a jaw-dropping collection of castles in Turkey.
Fake News Fortress
Exploring Dover Commando Fortress in South East England, where traces of a top-secret Commando raid are still visible.
The True Cross
Exploring Old Byron Hot Springs in the Californian desert - a once glittering Hollywood hotspot, converted into a top-secret interrogation centre.
Wonderland
Exploring a symbol of national pride that became a symbol of excess in the Turkish capital of Ankara.
Pop Dreamland
Yongma Land is a South Korean dreamland given a second life from the most unlikely of places; Saguramo Space Research Centre is a state-of-the-art facility that thrust the Georgian nation into the world's greatest race; Donnottar Castle is an ancient Scottish fortress besieged by a warrior that would inspire a Hollywood epic; and Nis Concentration Camp is a Balkan house of horrors that symbolised the worst of humanity.
Blues Prison
This episode features Old Joliet Prison, a battered facility near Chicago that hosted the Blues Brothers; Tito's Nuclear Bunker, Keelung Fortifications and Vilarinho de Furna Campo Do Geres.
A dilapidated facility near Chicago that descended into open war but then hosted an iconic pop-culture moment; a vast underground base in Bosnia, saved by an act of sabotage, committed by a double agent; an ancient Portuguese settlement crushed under a wave of change, now emerging from the mud like a modern-day Atlantis; and a fortress city in Taiwan that a famed Chinese commander used to trap his French enemy and turn into their coffin.
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