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.
Scattered around the world are long-forgotten engineering marvels, decaying cities and empty factories that once stood on the cutting edge of design and construction. Today they are discarded, dangerous, and some of them are even deadly. "Mysteries of the Abandoned" reveals why these engineering triumphs were built and how they were left to crumble. In each hour long episode, stories tell of who originally designed the structure, its historical significance, and why it was ultimately no longer viable. California's Goat Canyon Trestle railway, Pennsylvania's Kinzua Viaduct steel bridge, the Grand Goulets Road in the French Alps, and Hashima Island, a once thriving and now deserted Japanese island, are among episode subjects.
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Mysteries of the Abandoned Airs: Thursday
Mysteries of the Abandoned Status: Break
Returns: Unknown
MYSTERIES OF THE ABANDONED - General Information
Series Premiere: April 20, 2017 Classification: Documentary Genre: Documentary Network: Science Airs: Thursday at 09:00 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 -- 2 Episodes
6x1 -- Mar 26, 2020 -- The World's Strangest Disaster Zones 6x2 -- Apr 02, 2020 -- Swamp of Despair
