Structures abandonnées

Épisode 1 - Silent Cities

18 février 2017 - 5/5

Des édifices vides où résonne encore l'écho des foules laissent place à un lot de questions sans réponses, concernant leur abandon. Partout dans le monde, des projets d'ingénieries ont créé des villes silencieuses. Une minuscule ville minière du Japon est devenue l'espace le plus densément peuplé du monde.

Épisode 2 - Mission: Space

25 février 2017 - 4/5

Des armes désuètes permettent aux Américains d'obtenir des informations vitales au sujet des limites de l'espace. Les ruines d'une base secrète nazie ont ouvert la voie vers un nouvel univers. Une structure abandonnée dans le désert de l'Arizona pourrait être le véritable point de départ du programme américain d'exploration de l'espace.

Épisode 3 - Lost Bridges

4 mars 2017 - 3/5

Traversant de larges rivières et surplombant de profondes vallées, les ponts ont toujours été au sommet de la science de l'ingénierie. Dans les montagnes du désert du Colorado se trouve un chef-d'oeuvre caché qui risque de disparaître à tout moment. Le plus haut pont du monde s'est écroulé en moins d'une minute.

Épisode 4 - Ghost Ships

24 mars 2017 - 2/5

Les plus immenses bateaux de l'histoire sont liés à la recherche médicale et au programme spatial. L'armée américaine a dépensé des millions pour construire une imposante flotte pour la Première Guerre mondiale, puis elle l'a délibérément détruite. Un survivant de la Guerre froide aurait pu provoquer la troisième guerre mondiale.

Épisode 5 - Quest for Power

31 mars 2017

L'histoire de l'électricité et en particulier celle d'une structure géante se trouvant dans une zone contaminée près de Grenoble aurait pu déclencher la Troisième Guerre mondiale. La génératrice révolutionnaire de Nicola Tesla aurait peut-être pu avoir la capacité de fournir le monde en énergie. Les décorations fastes de la plus ancienne salle de contrôle de Hongrie révèlent l'optimisme face à l'arrivée de l'électricité.

Épisode 6 - Roads to Nowhere

31 mars 2017

Hear how a crumbling hill in the Peak District and dunes in California caused the closure of two roads. Learn why a route used by the French Resistance shut in 2005.

Épisode 1 - Hitler's Army Powerhouse

8 mai 2018 - 2/5

Hear how the Politz synthetic fuel plant in Poland, now a derelict site, was once central to Nazi Germany's drive to become self-sufficient on fuel.

Épisode 2 - Britain's Sea Fort Complex

15 mai 2018 - 3/5

The creation of a set of Second World War sea defences built near the mouth of the River Thames to protect London. Plus, a concrete pyramid build during the Cold War.

Épisode 3 - The Italian Dam Disaster

22 mai 2018 - 5/5

An abandoned concrete wall... five strange deserted structures. A lost escape route from nuclear Armageddon... A submerged link to D-day... Once they were at the cutting edge of design and construction, now they lie disused, contaminated and dangerous. But who built them? And why were they abandoned?

Épisode 4 - Battle of Britain Technology Facility

29 mai 2018 - 5/5

Learn about the strange-looking, derelict military facilities in Farnborough, which were once wind tunnels that played a vital role in WWII.

Épisode 5 - The Abandoned Nazi Railway

5 juin 2018 - 3/5

The Canfranc Railway Station is a large and elaborate abandoned Nazi railway station in the Spanish Pyrenees. Why was it built?

Épisode 6 - America's Jungle City

12 juin 2018 - 4/5

Henry Ford's Fordlandia Rubber Town has been left to rot in the Amazon Rainforest, but it was once a symbol of the American dream.

Épisode 7 - Germany's Lost Warship

19 juin 2018 - 2/5

The Georg Thiele was a technological masterpiece, but now it is a shipwreck, lost to the sea after running aground during a naval battle in WWII.

Épisode 8 - Lost Highway In The Rainforest

26 juin 2018 - 5/5

Hidden in the Brazilian jungle is the Petrobras Viaduct, an extraordinary highway that seemingly leads nowhere. Who built it and why?

Épisode 1 - The Desert Ghost Fleet

26 mars 2019 - 5/5

The programme looks at a mysterious group of rusting ships stranded in an arid desert, a monstrous defensive line on the snow-covered peaks of the Italian Alps, a ghostly collection of buildings, and the sunken remains of a unique vessel.

Épisode 2 - The Underwater Prison

2 avril 2019 - 5/5

An abandoned prison beneath the water, a tunnel in the heart of a mountain, concrete towers hidden in the woods and a rusting coastal relic.

Épisode 3 - The Siege Of Sarajevo

9 avril 2019 - 5/5

Concrete channels hidden in a mountaintop forest, a collapsing bridge, a marooned military base and the upright rusting carcass of ship.

Épisode 4 - Sabotage In The Mountains

16 avril 2019 - 3/5

A towering structure with an explosive past, a deserted cityscape, a mysterious top-secret facility and a vast Nazi construction.

Épisode 5 - Germany’s D-Day Fortress

23 avril 2019 - 3/5

A devastated cliff-top ruin, an extraordinarily tall tower, a concrete structure stranded at sea and a heavy metal monster in a field all feature.

Épisode 6 - Hitler’s Wonder Weapons Bunker

30 avril 2019 - 3/5

Hidden tunnels that saw a city prosper, a sunken wreck with a remarkable past, a concrete wartime dome and a mysterious Cold War building.

Épisode 7 - A Ghost Town in Spain

7 mai 2019 - 5/5

A village ruin, pitted and scarred, a ghostly fleet of ships, a bridge to nowhere hidden in a forest and strange metal structures in a wood.

Épisode 8 - England's Abandoned Village

14 mai 2019 - 5/5

An eerie, empty country village which hides a sad secret, a mysterious tower battered by the elements and a disused railway deep beneath the streets of a city.

Épisode 1 - The World's Strangest Ghost Town

27 juin 2019 - 3/5

A settlement in Argentina destroyed by floods, a town in the US that has been erased, and a Soviet dream-town that turned into a nuclear nightmare.

Épisode 2 - Palace of Death

4 juillet 2019 - 2/5

A seemingly endless concrete line stretching through the French countryside, which sits as a monument to a discarded engineering advancement.

Épisode 3 - Guernsey Nazi Towers

11 juillet 2019 - 2/5

A little-known dark past explains the vast monolithic structures that dominate the small British island of Guernsey.

Épisode 4 - Bodie USA

18 juillet 2019 - 4/5

Projects include a maze of tunnels filled with haunting remains beneath the streets of Paris and a strange formation of domed structures hovering over the waters off Florida.

Épisode 5 - Tunnel To The Underworld

25 juillet 2019 - 5/5

A town in West Virginia that fell victim to the pace of change when steam trains became obsolete and an underground complex in Italy that had been abandoned for nearly 2,000 years.

Épisode 6 - Escobar's Ruin

1 août 2019 - 5/5

Features a ruined compound in Colombia which was once home to Pablo Escobar and alien-looking structures with no apparent purpose, isolated in an empty English marshland in Denge, near Dungeness in Kent. But how and why were they ever built at all, and why are they now left abandoned?

Épisode 7 - Villa De Vecchi Rhodes

8 août 2019 - 5/5

A formerly luxurious and strategic mountain-top villa on the island of Rhodes in the Mediterranean that's been ravaged by acts of revenge by locals since 1955.

Épisode 8 - Pyramiden Norway

31 octobre 2019 - 4/5

A strange-looking deserted town with an almost supernatural atmosphere on a remote Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean was in fact an ambitious Soviet mining outpost with a tragic history. Also, a collection of imposing buildings on the southern tip of Australia, the remains of curious-looking basins emerging from the waves in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge and the ruins of a monumental construction project in southern Germany that was a ruthless regime's deadly prototype.

Épisode 9 - Behind The Berlin Wall

7 novembre 2019 - 4/5

Once they were at the heart of the Communist empire, now they lie abandoned leaving only memories of a time before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now, each haunted shell is ready to reveal its own story. Still standing today, a fierce-looking prison and an innocuous looking office building in Berlin were actually the headquarters of a feared and ruthless organisation - the Stazi. Also, a covert Communist base hid Cold War submarines for Tito, the former leader of Yugoslavia on the island of Vis. A seemingly innocuous sports centre hides a sinister underground bunker. And the former HQ of the Soviet Army in East Germany was a forbidden Soviet city within a city - the vast site in the East of Berlin is still abandoned today but its architecture still impresses and even the statues of Lenin still stand in this visually remarkable, place from another time.

Épisode 10 - Bannack USA

14 novembre 2019 - 4/5

A sprawling Wild West ghost town sits peaceful and abandoned in Montana, USA, but is still haunted by tales of murder, corruption and buried treasure. Also, a cold, dark, underground mountain network that cost the lives of thousands... the crumbling ruins of an English industry that turned poison into profit... a peaceful village that was shattered by the terrors of war.

Épisode 11 - Buckner Building Alaska

21 novembre 2019 - 3/5

A vast snowcovered monster in the icy wilderness of southern Alaska, a ruined super structure that overshadows everything around it in and a landscape of confusing and surprising structures that once represented a bold statement of Spain's plans for the future. Plus, a long, winding formation that was once supposed to help defend Hitler's Third Reich. And in Budapest, Hungary, the stripped skeleton of an industrial relic lies rusting away.

Épisode 12 - 1936 Olympic Village Berlin

28 novembre 2019 - 2/5

A pioneering complex marked by both glory and tragedy that's soon to be lost forever, and towering remains from an industrial age.

Épisode 1 - Disaster in the Desert

21 janvier 2020 - 2.5/5

The desert town that faced a disaster of biblical proportions. Plus, vast coastal ruins that reveal a past once wiped from history.

Épisode 2 - The Valkyrie Assassin

28 janvier 2020 - 3.5/5

The underground base with the power to destroy a nation, the site linked with an attempt to kill a dictator, and an ancient world discovered in the American wilderness.

Épisode 3 - Escape from Devil's Island

4 février 2020 - 5/5

Claustrophobic prison cells that contain a story worthy of international acclaim, and a vast mountainside complex that held the power to change the world.

Épisode 4 - Top Secret Nuclear Arsenal

11 février 2020 - 3/5

A secretive underground base that concealed the power to destroy nations, and a sprawling industrial relic clinging to the edge of an unforgiving waterfall.

Épisode 5 - A Nation Torn Apart

18 février 2020 - 3/5

Including an exploration of a marooned iron-clad structure in Portland, off the coast of England, that hides a dramatic story of war and resilience; Pratt Cotton Gin Mill, a vast facility in the heart of America's deep south that helped tear apart a nation; and a Mediterranean island fortress at Spinalonga, Greece, that became the scene of a dark conspiracy.

Épisode 6 - Ghosts of the Swamp

25 février 2020 - 3/5

Including an exploration of forgotten relics from the defence of America's homeland, at Fort Jackson, USA, concealed by the banks of the Mississippi River; a concrete behemoth at Lorient Sub Base, on the coast of France, that proved invulnerable to enemy bombardment; and a ghostly ruin at Gwrych that is now home to a haunting presence.

Épisode 7 - Death Behind Bars

3 mars 2020 - 4/5

An American prison for the violent and deranged with links to an infamous cult leader, and a cavernous tunnel network in France offering shelter from unrelenting bombardment.

Épisode 8 - Behind Enemy Lines

10 mars 2020 - 4/5

An Albanian village home to Allied secret agents, devastated for resisting the Nazi war machine, and a notorious asylum in America that enforced lobotomies on a terrifying scale.

Épisode 1 - The Lost Pirate City

9 juillet 2020

What happened to an infamous pirate city in Jamaica? Also, a grim gulag in Croatia and a Louisiana plantation caught up in the aftermath of the American Civil War.

Épisode 2 - Forbidden Island

16 juillet 2020

Examining a ghost island once belonging to a secretive country on the fringes of Europe. Also, a haunting site in the UK with evidence of strange burial practices.

Épisode 3 - Blast Zone

23 juillet 2020

Within a dense Polish woodland sits a forgotten complex with an explosive history. Also, grand coastal defences in Ghana reveal a tortured past.

Épisode 4 - North Of The Wall

30 juillet 2020

A complex of stone buildings near Hadrian's Wall that were built to keep Northern hoards at bay. Also, a top secret military facility in the American Midwest.

Épisode 5 - The World’s Strangest Disaster Zones (1)

6 août 2020

Épisode 6 - The World’s Strangest Disaster Zones (2)

6 août 2020

Épisode 7 - Defenders Of Liberty

3 novembre 2020

A now silent site that played a pivotal role defending the U.S through the 20th century. Plus, a crumbling Italian fortress and a ghostly Ukrainian mansion.

Épisode 8 - Space Plane

10 novembre 2020

A juggernaut of Soviet engineering which was crucial to the international space race. Deserted Scottish coastal defences and a complex that's crucial to American history.

Épisode 9 - Disaster On The 38th Parallel

17 novembre 2020

The mysterious Cachtice Castle home to Elizabeth Bathory, said to have killed over 600 girls and a mysterious structure on the 38th parallel.

Épisode 10 - Bunker Nation

24 novembre 2020

A small isolated country littered with strange concrete mushrooms and a secret Japanese facility that was once at the forefront of weapons technology.

Épisode 11 - The Human Zoo

1 décembre 2020

A creepy collection of buildings, monuments hidden in a Parisian park and an eerie graveyard of discarded ships strewn along the banks of a mighty river.

Épisode 12 - Spike Island

8 décembre 2020

An impressive compound commandeered and repurposed by a brutal regime and an eerie complex off the coast of Ireland that became the biggest of its kind.

Épisode 1 - Hollywood Heroes

13 janvier 2021

Legendary film sets with surprising pasts and real locations that inspired Hollywood. Within these decaying structures are the echoes of history.

Épisode 2 - Stalin's Subway

20 janvier 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.

Épisode 3 - Disaster at the Maya Hotel

27 janvier 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.

Épisode 4 - Murder Underground

3 février 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.

Épisode 5 - El Dorado Canyon

10 février 2021

An American desert canyon where fortunes were made and lives were lost, and an island fortress in Scotland with an Achilles heel.

Épisode 6 - The Mafia Bunker

17 février 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.

Épisode 7 - Ruins of the Rust Belt

24 février 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.

Épisode 8 - American Ghost Park

3 mars 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.

Épisode 9 - Fortress of the Sky

10 mars 2021

Eerie ruins hiding in the forested hills of Arkansas, USA, and a disintegrating gulag in Albania that housed enemies of the state.

Épisode 10 - Catastrophe and Cover Up

17 mars 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.

Épisode 11 - Dead Sea Disaster

24 mars 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.

Épisode 12 - Global Icons

31 mars 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.

Épisode 1 - Heroes & Villains

30 juillet 2021

The home of an African dictator and a sporting hero, and the facility that held apartheid's greatest critic are abandoned, but still have unique stories to tell.

Épisode 2 - Paradise Lost

6 août 2021

Exploring a ghost town in Colorado, the remnants of an industrial enterprise in Puerto Rico, and a remote village on Cyprus.

Épisode 3 - A Royal Deception

13 août 2021

Exploring a jungle refuge concealing a story of royal deceit, nuclear bunkers infiltrated by outsiders, and a haunted hospital marked by scandal.

Épisode 4 - Mafia Seaside Resort

20 août 2021

Exploring a beachside resort with ties to the Russian mafia, a windswept base hiding lifesaving technology, and a site in Iowa plagued by its past.

Épisode 5 - The Giant Speaker

27 août 2021

Exploring a bizarre block in Taiwan resembling a giant speaker, a pioneering venture in Alaska, and an alpine village that masks a military beast.

Épisode 6 - Cathedral of Sewage

3 septembre 2021

An ominous tower in the forests of Croatia, a New York City complex that broke the mould, and a grand facility guarding the London riverbanks.

Épisode 7 - The Secret Bunker

10 septembre 2021

Exploring a desert island with an infected past adrift from the US mainland, the brutalist palace of a mad Bulgarian dictator, and a doomed top-secret Nazi project.

Épisode 8 - The Battle of San Pietro

17 septembre 2021

Featuring Italian ruins immortalised by Hollywood, a crumbling Chilean city with two lives and a brutalist Scottish relic whose prayers went unanswered.

Épisode 9 - Divine Intervention

24 septembre 2021

Exploring a luxury resort that conceals a top-secret facility, a mysterious complex in Bali struck by disaster, and a relic of hope near Jerusalem.

Épisode 10 - Shadow of the Wars

1 octobre 2021

Exploring a dystopian powerhouse in Pennsylvania, USA, a fairy-tale castle in Poland and AngloSaxon religious ruins across vast plains of Scotland.

Épisode 11 - Death In Paradise

8 octobre 2021

Exploring a bloody battleground on the Pacific Island of Peleliu and an ominous military stronghold in Russia.

Épisode 12 - Before The Crown

15 octobre 2021

Exploring the honeymoon home of a young princess and grand monuments designed by the most notorious dictator of the 20th century.

Épisode 1 - Megalomaniac's Palace

21 mars 2022

Exploring a once lavish palace in Iraq, the Sathorn Unique, an epic ghost tower in Thailand, and a former sports stadium in Georgia, USA

Épisode 2 - Jungle Fantasy Land

28 mars 2022

Exploring the remains of a pioneering industry town in Ohio, a once beautiful Croatian resort bombarded by enemy fire, and an otherworldly garden of Eden in Mexico.

Épisode 3 - The Beached Leviathan

4 avril 2022

The graffitied remains of a correctional facility in Atlanta, USA with a controversial and unexpected past, forgotten remnants of fraud and fusion on the Western border of Argentina and a mysterious ancient complex built by a devoted Khmer King in the jungles of Cambodia.

Épisode 4 - Niagara's Hidden Marvel

6 juin 2022

Exploring a royal retreat caught in a web of corruption, an engineering marvel hidden behind the Niagara Falls in Canada, and a subterranean treasure.

Épisode 5 - Apocalyptic Skyscraper

18 avril 2022

Exploring a ruined castle above a German village, a rural town in Idaho, a futuristic skyscraper in Johannesburg and a fantasy world outside of Buenos Aires.

Épisode 6 - Ruins of Empire

25 avril 2022

Exploring a British fort that became a bizzare zoo, a brutalist school for Communist top brass and a lost world hides secrets of a vanished people.

Épisode 7 - Trouble In Paradise

2 mai 2022

Exploring a luxury resort in Argentina, a Greek palace above a Mexican city and a former hotel in Hawaii.

Épisode 8 - Experiments of War

9 mai 2022

Exploring a crumbling dam hidden in the Welsh valleys, a quaint outpost on a paradise island, and a mastery of ancient engineering that brought life to the planes of Mexico.

Épisode 9 - Ancient Encounter

16 mai 2022

Exploring a picturesque French castle, the ruins of a Kansas City hospital, an ancient Turkish city, and an island in Ireland that brought its inhabitants closer to God.

Épisode 10 - Alien Contact

23 mai 2022

Exploring a complex in Georgia pointing into deep space that almost discovered a signal from aliens.

Épisode 11 - Treasures To Die For

30 mai 2022

Exploring Hartwood, a haunting facility in Scotland, plus ruins of an ancient city in Iraq and a scandal-hit town in New Mexico.

Épisode 12 - Tunnel of Terrors

11 avril 2022

Exploring a military strong-hold in the Philippines, a facility that spawned an American sporting great, and an English relic that hosted a cinematic sensation.

Épisode 1 - Raiders & Invaders

5 septembre 2022

Explore Oradour-sur-Glane, a French town drenched in infamy, the victim of a notorious raid, Alcatraz, a facility famed for breakouts, subjected to a daring break-in, and Sealand, a micronation off the English coast, stormed by a band of mercenaries.

Épisode 2 - The Rock

12 septembre 2022

The Tunnels of Gibraltar were a Second World War espionage base hidden in the Rock of Gibraltar. An ingenious US Airforce project that continues to keep us safe is preserved at the Atlas-1 Test Site. At Roghudi Vecchio, an ancient culture is threatened when an Italian town is deserted. At Naissaar, a highly classified Soviet munitions factory is hidden in Estonian forests.

Épisode 3 - Enemy At The Gates

19 septembre 2022

Exploring a series of vaults, hidden from view in Edinburgh, Scotland that tell a murky story of opportunity, crime and destitution. The Old Herring Factory is a remote Icelandic facility that significantly impacted the country’s economy; in the calm waters of Croatia’s Adriatic Sea, Fort Punta is a vast fortification; and in the ruins of an Alaskan battleground at Fort Schwatka Unalaska are the remains of an Alaskan battleground where a foreign invader set foot on American soil for the first time since 1812.

Épisode 4 - Cowboy Mountain

26 septembre 2022

The remains of Chiatura, formerly known as the Venice of the air, an ingenious sky-high solution to a ground-based problem, were discovered in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. Ghost Town in the Sky was an Appalachian dream that conjured the spirit of the old west, left to rot on a North Carolina mountainside. The enormous Guernsey Hospital was constructed when a portion of Britain was under the Nazi yoke. Houtouwan, a simple Chinese island, was involved in a brutal revolution that brought about a tragic period of mass imprisonment and murder.

Épisode 5 - Drone Wars

3 octobre 2022

In a battle decided by a brand-new weapon of war, Agdam, a city in Azerbaijan, was levelled to the ground. In addition, there are two puzzlingly deserted towns in Sicily, a Kansas City Workhouse that seems to have been constructed for the aristocracy, a vast complex in Estonia that inspired a revolution, and more.

Épisode 6 - Moonshot

10 octobre 2022

An industrial ruin in the Florida Everglades that once took part in the greatest race the human race has ever seen; a community in Indonesia torn apart by a terrifying and deadly unseen force; the graffiti-covered walls of an Ibizan legend hinting at a fun-loving past; and a Bulgarian school hiding an ambitious and covert plan for retaliation.

Épisode 7 - Rock And Ruin

17 octobre 2022

Exploring traces of a mass deception hidden at Ponte Dirillo in Italy, as well as a once lavish theatre in Ohio and an ancient city with a poisonous secret. A once-opulent theatre in Ohio that brought down the house, an ancient city with a poisonous secret that was only recently revealed, a war-torn shell given new purpose by a blockbuster series, and traces of a massive deception buried across an Italian island are just a few examples of the stories that are told in this episode.

Épisode 8 - Castle Of The Occult

24 octobre 2022

Explores a dense forest near the Czech capital of Prague that hides Houska Castle, an eerie keep that has been subject to long-standing rumours that it possesses supernatural powers. The ruins of a massive stadium that promised a valiant sporting victory over western rivals lie in the disputed region of Abkhazia; a mysterious castle rumoured to have supernatural powers is hidden in a dense forest not far from Prague; a luxurious hotel was looted by a cruel warlord in Liberia, West Africa; and the scattered ruins of a settlement in north-central Arizona reveal an ancient one that was given life by a deadly force.

Épisode 9 - The Green Mile

31 octobre 2022

Exploring Serbia, Fort Pike in Louisiana, and a mountainside refuge in Georgia that was revealed to the world by an act of God.

Épisode 10 - Blitz Spirit

7 novembre 2022

Exploring a grand structure in Hull that was reduced to rubble by Hitler's planes, Casa Albero in Italy, USS Hornet in California and the Sofia tunnels. This episode looks at the Casa Albero in Italy, the USS Hornet in California, and the Sofia tunnels. Also a grand building in Hull that was once the centre of the community was destroyed by Hitler’s planes while those inside were laughing at him on the big screen.

Épisode 11 - An American Exodus

14 novembre 2022

Exploring a decrepit Liberian landmark with American origins, a desolate town in Belgium and a pioneering scientific structure in Cleveland. Doel, a ghost town in Belgium, stands in the shadow of its destroyer. Chacaltaya Ski Resort in Bolivia is a high-altitude retreat that was once a world-class sporting resort but has been robbed of its lifeblood by a global threat. Warner & Swasey, a groundbreaking scientific building in Cleveland, has been rendered obsolete by light pollution.

Épisode 12 - The Drop

21 novembre 2022

Exploring the Dew Drop Inn in New Orleans that dared to take on the authorities and paid the price and Belgica Fort, built to defend an unlikely treasure. The Dew Drop Inn, a New Orleans music mecca that defied the law and paid the price; Belgica Fort, an epic ruin constructed to protect an unlikely treasure; and the aftereffects of West-81, a military exercise that shook the West to its core.

Épisode 1 - Rock 'N' Roll Island

15 mai 2023

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.

Épisode 2 - Penthouse Palace

22 mai 2023

Exploring Haludovo Palace Hotel in Croatia, Wolf's Lair, a German military complex and Herouni Mirror Radio Telescope - a pioneering facility in Armenia.

Épisode 3 - Castle Kingdom

29 mai 2023

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.

Épisode 4 - Fake News Fortress

5 juin 2023

Exploring Dover Commando Fortress in South East England, where traces of a top-secret Commando raid are still visible.

Épisode 5 - The True Cross

12 juin 2023

Exploring Old Byron Hot Springs in the Californian desert - a once glittering Hollywood hotspot, converted into a top-secret interrogation centre.

Épisode 6 - Wonderland

19 juin 2023

A symbol of national pride that became a symbol of excess in the Turkish capital of Ankara.

Épisode 7 - K-Pop Dreamland

26 juin 2023

Exploring Yongma Land - a South Korean dreamland given a second life from the most unlikely of places.

Épisode 8 - Blues Prison

3 juillet 2023

Exploring Old Joliet Prison, a battered facility near Chicago that descended into open war, but then hosted the Blues Brothers!

Épisode 1 - Murder in Martinique

23 octobre 2023

Exploring Chateau Aubéry on the island of Martinique, where a criminal kingpin wiped out the opposition.

Épisode 2 - Italian Turf War

30 octobre 2023

Exploring Castel Volturno in Campana in Italy, Colorado and HMP Shepton Mallet in Somerset.

Épisode 3 - The Montauk Conspiracy

6 novembre 2023

Exploring Camp Hero in Long Island, a salt mine in Poland, Croatia and Lewisham.

Épisode 4 - Propaganda Palace

13 novembre 2023

Exploring the Apollo Movie Theatre in Tbilisi, Georgia, an ornate shrine to Soviet propaganda.

Épisode 5 - The Rediscovery of Archaeopolis

20 novembre 2023

Exploring a country estate in Ireland where family divisions reflected a national struggle and was caught in the crossfire.

Épisode 6 - Hell Island

27 novembre 2023

Exploring Anchieta, a tropical island complex in Brazil and the scene of a dramatic uprising.

Épisode 7 - Myth & Legend

4 décembre 2023

Exploring the ruined site of Troy, that helped decode one of the world's most enduring mysteries.

Épisode 8 - Korea's Joan of Arc

11 décembre 2023

Exploring Seodaemun Prison, a facility in Seoul that helped spawn a legend known as South Korea's Joan of Arc.