Some of the world's most incredible engineering projects now lie in ruins. These deserted places are home to extraordinary mysteries and untold secrets, and we revisit them to understand how they were built, and why they were abandoned.
They were once some of the most advanced structures and facilities on the planet, standing at the cutting-edge of design and construction. Today they are abandoned, dangerous, some of them even deadly. From uninhabited cities to empty factories, these long-forgotten engineering marvels are scattered around the globe. Science Channel uncovers why some of the world's most advanced architectural achievements were eventually left behind in the all-new series Mysteries of the Abandoned.
Each of the six, hour-long episodes of Mysteries of the Abandoned features stories behind engineering wonders, why they were built, and the reasons they were eventually left to crumble. Each story recalls the people who originally designed the structure, their historical significance, and why they were ultimately no longer of use. The premiere episode explores California's Goat Canyon Trestle railway, known as the 'Impossible Railroad,' that required the biggest wooden trestle bridge in the world; Ukraine's Duga, the notorious anti-ballistic missile radar, known as the 'Russian Woodpecker,' that still stands in within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone; and the Grand Goulets Road in the French Alps, an astonishingly narrow and perilous mountain passageway.
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Mysteries of the Abandoned Airs: Wednesday
Mysteries of the Abandoned Status: Airing
MYSTERIES OF THE ABANDONED - General Information
Series Premiere: April 20, 2017 Classification: Documentary Genre: Action | Documentary Network: Science Airs: Wednesday at 11:00 pm Runtime: 60 Minutes
MYSTERIES OF THE ABANDONED - Season 1 -- 12 Episodes
1x1 -- Apr 20, 2017 -- Nazi Ghost Town 1x2 -- Apr 26, 2017 -- Curse of Hell Island 1x3 -- Apr 27, 2017 -- Phantoms of Chernobyl 1x4 -- May 04, 2017 -- Wild West Apocalypse 1x5 -- May 11, 2017 -- Soviet Doomsday Device 1x6 -- May 18, 2017 -- The Tesla Conspiracy 1x7 -- May 25, 2017 -- The Devil's Road 1x8 -- Aug 31, 2017 -- Chernobyl's Deadly Secrets 1x9 -- Sep 07, 2017 -- Curses of the Nazis 1x10 -- Sep 14, 2017 -- Strangest Soviet Ruins 1x11 -- Sep 21, 2017 -- American Ghosts 1x12 -- Sep 28, 2017 -- Giants of War
MYSTERIES OF THE ABANDONED - Season 2 -- 10 Episodes
2x1 -- Mar 20, 2018 -- Armageddon Highway 2x2 -- Mar 27, 2018 -- Curse of the Haunted Prison 2x3 -- Apr 03, 2018 -- Arctic Hell Pit 2x4 -- Apr 10, 2018 -- Desert Ghost Fort 2x5 -- Apr 17, 2018 -- Conspiracy on Devil's Mountain 2x6 -- Apr 24, 2018 -- Secrets of the Alien Shrine 2x7 -- May 01, 2018 -- Amazon Ghost Town 2x8 -- May 08, 2018 -- Sea Fortress of Doom 2x9 -- Oct 02, 2018 -- Skeletons of Apocalypse 2x10 -- Oct 02, 2018 -- Doomsday at Dragon's Teeth
MYSTERIES OF THE ABANDONED - Season 3 -- 10 Episodes
3x1 -- Oct 02, 2018 -- Doomsday at Dragon's Teeth 3x2 -- Oct 09, 2018 -- Nightmare on Blood Mountain 3x3 -- Oct 16, 2018 -- Tower of Death 3x4 -- Oct 23, 2018 -- Underwater Ghost Prison 3x5 -- Oct 30, 2018 -- America's Doomsday Town 3x6 -- Nov 13, 2018 -- City of the Damned 3x7 -- Nov 20, 2018 -- The Town That Disappeared 3x8 -- Nov 27, 2018 -- Nazi Death Star 3x9 -- Dec 04, 2018 -- The Real Shawshank 3x10 -- Dec 11, 2018 -- Secrets of Alien Stonehenge
MYSTERIES OF THE ABANDONED - Season 4 -- 9 Episodes
4x1 -- Apr 04, 2019 -- World's Strangest Ghost Towns 4x2 -- Apr 11, 2019 -- Secrets of Supervillain Island 4x3 -- Apr 18, 2019 -- Escobar's Castle 4x4 -- Apr 25, 2019 -- Labyrinth of the Dead 4x5 -- May 02, 2019 -- Treasure of Outlaw Valley 4x6 -- May 09, 2019 -- Alaska's Fort Apocalypse 4x7 -- May 16, 2019 -- Alien Hell Portal 4x8 -- May 23, 2019 -- Pompeii's Gate to Hell 4x9 -- May 30, 2019 -- Haunting on Plague Island
MYSTERIES OF THE ABANDONED - Season 5 -- 9 Episodes
5x1 -- Oct 03, 2019 -- Jungle of the Damned 5x2 -- Oct 10, 2019 -- American Atlantis 5x3 -- Oct 17, 2019 -- Haunting of Heartbreak Castle 5x4 -- Oct 24, 2019 -- Kingdom of the Vanished 5x5 -- Oct 31, 2019 -- Journey to Outcast Island 5x6 -- Nov 07, 2019 -- Secrets of the Doomsday Caves 5x7 -- Nov 14, 2019 -- The Devil's Prison 5x8 -- Nov 21, 2019 -- Curse of Satan's Catacombs 5x9 -- Dec 19, 2019 -- Secrets Of The Abyss
MYSTERIES OF THE ABANDONED - Season 6 -- 11 Episodes
6x1 -- Mar 26, 2020 -- The World's Strangest Disaster Zones 6x2 -- Apr 02, 2020 -- Swamp of Despair 6x3 -- Apr 09, 2020 -- End Times on Lake Michigan 6x4 -- Apr 16, 2020 -- Hell on Blood Island 6x5 -- Apr 23, 2020 -- Florida Doomsday Castle 6x6 -- Apr 30, 2020 -- The Killer in the Castle 6x7 -- May 07, 2020 -- Towers of Blood 6x8 -- May 14, 2020 -- The Thing on Hell Mountain 6x9 -- May 21, 2020 -- Anarchy on Ireland's Alcatraz 6x10 -- May 28, 2020 -- House of Horror 6x11 -- Jun 04, 2020 -- Nightmare at Fort Paranoia
MYSTERIES OF THE ABANDONED - Season 7 -- 13 Episodes
7x0 -- TBA 7x1 -- Dec 03, 2020 -- Into the Murder Labyrinth 7x2 -- Dec 10, 2020 -- American Ghost Park 7x3 -- Dec 17, 2020 -- Secrets of Mafia Island 7x4 -- Jan 07, 2021 -- The World's Greatest Icons 7x5 -- Jan 14, 2021 -- Factory of Death 7x6 -- Jan 21, 2021 -- Ghosts of Black Mountain 7x7 -- Jan 28, 2021 -- The Doom of El Dorado 7x8 -- Feb 04, 2021 -- Ruins of the Rust Belt 7x9 -- Feb 11, 2021 -- Fortress of the Spy 7x10 -- Feb 18, 2021 -- Mystery of the Alien Base 7x11 -- Feb 25, 2021 -- Ghosts of the Cursed Castle 7x12 -- Apr 25, 2021 -- American Wasteland
MYSTERIES OF THE ABANDONED - Season 8 -- 11 Episodes
8x1 -- May 20, 2021 -- The Good, the Bad, and the Abandoned 8x2 -- May 27, 2021 -- Ruins of Disaster Park 8x3 -- Jun 03, 2021 -- Fortress of Nuclear Secrets 8x4 -- Jun 10, 2021 -- Plague on Hell Island 8x5 -- Jun 17, 2021 -- Florida Death Fortress 8x6 -- Jun 24, 2021 -- Hollywood vs. Nazis 8x7 -- Jul 01, 2021 -- Hitler's Nightmare Palace 8x8 -- Jul 08, 2021 -- Alien Ghost Tower 8x9 -- Jul 15, 2021 -- Russian Mafia Resort 8x10 -- Jul 22, 2021 -- Ghosts of Mount Fortune 8x11 -- Jul 29, 2021 -- Chinese Nuclear Box
MYSTERIES OF THE ABANDONED - Season 9 -- 24 Episodes
9x1 -- Jan 02, 2022 -- Derelict Housing of Protest 9x2 -- Jan 09, 2022 -- The Beached Leviathan 9x3 -- Jan 16, 2022 -- Desolation of Ponte City 9x4 -- Apr 14, 2022 -- Bangkok's Ghost Tower 9x5 -- Apr 21, 2022 -- Ruins of the Nazi Resort 9x6 -- Apr 21, 2022 -- Romanian Royal Desolation 9x7 -- Apr 28, 2022 -- Ruins of the Zoo Fortress 9x8 -- Apr 28, 2022 -- Hidden Hell of Angel Island 9x9 -- May 05, 2022 -- Ghost Village of Nazi Invaders 9x10 -- May 12, 2022 -- Remnants of Traitor Chateau 9x11 -- May 19, 2022 -- Remnants of Alien Contact 9x12 -- May 26, 2022 -- Psychiatric Ruins of Scotland 9x13 -- Jun 02, 2022 -- Desolate Remnants of Agdam 9x14 -- Jun 09, 2022 -- Hidden Tunnels of Gibraltar 9x15 -- Jun 30, 2022 -- Remnants of Rocket Complex 9x16 -- Jun 30, 2022 -- Secret Vaults of Scotland 9x17 -- Jul 07, 2022 -- Ruins of Variety Theater 9x18 -- Jul 14, 2022 -- Curse of Cowboy Mountain 9x19 -- Oct 13, 2022 -- Castle of the Nazi Occult 9x20 -- Oct 20, 2022 -- Urban Ruins of Varosha 9x21 -- Oct 27, 2022 -- Historic Remains of USS Hornet 9x22 -- Nov 03, 2022 -- Liberia's Tower of Ruin 9x23 -- Nov 10, 2022 -- Lake Delores Waterpark 9x24 -- Nov 17, 2022 -- Abundant Life Building
MYSTERIES OF THE ABANDONED - Season 10 -- 16 Episodes
10x1 -- Jun 07, 2023 -- Penthouse Palace 10x2 -- Jun 14, 2023 -- Castle Kingdom 10x3 -- Jun 21, 2023 -- Rock 'N' Roll Island 10x4 -- Jun 28, 2023 -- K-Pop Dreamland 10x5 -- Jul 05, 2023 -- The True Cross 10x6 -- Jul 12, 2023 -- Blues Prison 10x7 -- Jul 19, 2023 -- Fake News Fortress 10x8 -- Aug 02, 2023 -- Turkish Wonderland 10x9 -- Oct 20, 2023 -- The Montauk Conspiracy 10x10 -- Oct 27, 2023 -- The Ruins of Troy 10x11 -- Nov 03, 2023 -- Hell Island 10x12 -- Nov 10, 2023 -- The Ruins of Archaeopolis 10x13 -- Nov 24, 2023 -- Korea's Joan of Arc 10x14 -- Dec 01, 2023 -- Gunslingers and Gangsters 10x15 -- Dec 08, 2023 -- Gangbusters and Gun Battles 10x16 -- Dec 15, 2023 -- Propaganda Palace
MYSTERIES OF THE ABANDONED - Season 11 -- 4 Episodes
11x1 -- Sep 04, 2024 -- Hunt for the Nazi Gold Train 11x2 -- Sep 11, 2024 -- Schindler's Deception 11x3 -- Sep 18, 2024 -- Operation Just Cause 11x4 -- Sep 25, 2024 -- Defenders of the Panama Canal
