Abandoned Engineering - Season 1 - Eps 1: Silent Cities
Empty buildings and infrastructures are full of the echoes of real people and vanished lives, leaving many questions unanswered and mysteries unsolved. We explore the worlds strangest engineering projects that created empty silent cities. We ask why a ruined cold war air base has become a no-go area and how a tiny Japanese mining island become the most over-crowded place on the planet. We find out if the street layout of the Soviet Union's model city become a matter of life or death for its population. And how did Nazi Germany create a huge mind control facility at a holiday resort?
About Abandoned Engineering
Title: Abandoned Engineering
First Air Date: 2017-02-18
Last Air Date: 2025-03-28
Status: Returning Series
Rating: 7.3/10 (from 11 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 14
Total Episodes: 133
Network: U&Yesterday
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Like A Shot Entertainment
Synopsis
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.
Cast
Tom Ward
Self - Narrator
