Abandoned Engineering (2017)
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.
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Exploring Opa-Locka City Hall, a strange structure that began as the dream of an American Renaissance man, but soon turned into a nightmare.
We explore Namibia's arid Skeleton Coast, where traces of a brutal but once vital industry lie scattered.
We head to the Tunisian desert to explore a vast chain of ruins that once stood in the way of Allied Victory - until a band of rogue heroes uncovered their weakness.
We explore Fort Amador, the site of an American invasion in Panama, and a grisly Polish facility that once caged members of a revolutionary movement.
We explore Schindler's Ark in the Czech Republic, a secret refuge in Europe's killing fields, and a lost Amazonian paradise deep in the Brazilian rainforest.
We visit the decaying remains of Old Essex County Jail in New Jersey, a facility that became a powder keg of injustice that was set to explode.
We visit the Polish city of Walbrzych, where a fairytale castle on a cliff conceals a vast subterranean tunnel network linked to a legend of lost Nazi gold.
We explore Fort Sherman, a jungle stronghold in Panama built to defend a prized American possession that soon faced the threat of an elaborate Nazi conspiracy.
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