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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 : Global Icons
March. 31,2021
Bizarrely-shaped huts in India, once home to global superstars, are now eerily quiet and neglected, and a shattered compound in Colombia linked to a criminal mastermind.
Episode 11 : Dead Sea Disaster
March. 24,2021
A fairy-tale castle that staged one of the strangest stories of the Second World War and a haunting complex on an old American Frontier.
Episode 10 : Catastrophe and Cover Up
March. 17,2021
A volcanic island just off Taiwan containing chilling ruins from its darkest era, and a miniature railway that lies forgotten in the woods of Arkansas.
Episode 9 : Fortress of the Sky
March. 10,2021
Eerie ruins hiding in the forested hills of Arkansas, USA, and a disintegrating gulag in Albania that housed enemies of the state.
Episode 8 : American Ghost Park
March. 03,2021
A Middle Eastern region littered with ruins and a strange facility in Taiwan that struck fear into the hearts of those who knew its true purpose.
Episode 7 : Ruins of the Rust Belt
February. 24,2021
A real-life concrete jungle in America's 'Rust Belt', and an industrial facility that brought energy to a remote corner of the world.
Episode 6 : The Mafia Bunker
February. 17,2021
An iron monster lost in the Alaskan tundra, a Crusader fort thrown into a modern conflict, and a prison built to house a mafia kingpin.
Episode 5 : El Dorado Canyon
February. 10,2021
An American desert canyon where fortunes were made and lives were lost, and an island fortress in Scotland with an Achilles heel.
Episode 4 : Murder Underground
February. 03,2021
An engineering masterpiece carved into the cliff-face, and a long-range beacon that transmitted one of the most infamous messages in American history.
Episode 3 : Disaster At The Maya Hotel
January. 27,2021
Ruins of a vast industrial ghost town in the United States, a windswept Scottish island and the remains of a resort in Japan that watched a city burn.
Episode 2 : Stalin's Subway
January. 20,2021
In North Wales a secret facility which once manufactured mustard gas and enriched uranium lies in ruins. In Malta is a luxurious quarantine facility, that hides a dark secret.
Episode 1 : Hollywood Heroes
January. 13,2021
Legendary film sets with surprising pasts and real locations that inspired Hollywood. Within these decaying structures are the echoes of history.
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