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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Air Date: 2017-02-18
Empty buildings and infrastructures are full of the echoes of real people and vanished lives, leaving many questions ...
Air Date: 2017-02-25
We aim for the stars and find out why unwanted battleship guns allow the United States to gain vital information abou...
Air Date: 2017-03-21
Soaring across some of the widest rivers and deepest valleys on the planet, bridges have always been at the cutting e...
Air Date: 2017-03-28
Exploring ship graveyards, including Scapa Flow in Orkney, where German warships were scuttled after the First World ...
Air Date: 2017-04-04
How Europe's most advanced power station became a film set. Plus, the structures made by scientific pioneer Nikola Te...
Air Date: 2017-04-06
Hear how a crumbling hill in the Peak District and dunes in California caused the closure of two roads. Learn why a r...