Abandoned Engineering - Season 2 - Eps 6: America's Jungle City
This week, find out why Fordlandia Rubber Town, a symbol of the American dream first established by Henry Ford in the 1920s, is now left rotting in the Amazonian rainforest. Also, what secrets do the enormous monoliths scattered across a secret forest complex in Eastern Poland hold? And what secrets does a fortified corridor of death with a Cold war past stretching for miles across Hötensleben, Germany hold? And a bizarre structure in South Western France built to speed trade was once at the forefront of design, now lies disused and abandoned, but why?
About Abandoned Engineering
Title: Abandoned Engineering
First Air Date: 2017-02-18
Last Air Date: 2025-03-28
Status: Returning Series
Rating: 7.3/10 (from 11 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 14
Total Episodes: 133
Network: U&Yesterday
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Like A Shot Entertainment
Synopsis
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.
Cast
Tom Ward
Self - Narrator
