Seasons & Episodes
Silent Cities
Empty buildings and infrastructures are full of the echoes of real people and vanished lives, leaving many questions una
Mission: Space
We aim for the stars and find out why unwanted battleship guns allow the United States to gain vital information about t
Lost Bridges
Soaring across some of the widest rivers and deepest valleys on the planet, bridges have always been at the cutting edge
Ghost Ships
Exploring ship graveyards, including Scapa Flow in Orkney, where German warships were scuttled after the First World War
Quest for Power
How Europe's most advanced power station became a film set. Plus, the structures made by scientific pioneer Nikola Tesla
Roads to Nowhere
Hear how a crumbling hill in the Peak District and dunes in California caused the closure of two roads. Learn why a rout
Hitler's Army Powerhouse
A dark past explains why the Pölitz Synthetic Fuel Plant in Northern Poland is now a derelict industrial site littered
Britain's Sea Fort Complex
A strange group of rusting structures off the coast of England, a dilapidated mediaeval-style castle in the heart of urb
The Italian Dam Disaster
An abandoned concrete wall... five strange deserted structures. A lost escape route from nuclear Armageddon... A submerg
Battle of Britain Technology Facility
Learn about the strange-looking, derelict military facilities in Farnborough, which were once wind tunnels that played a
The Abandoned Nazi Railway
The Canfranc Railway Station is an elaborate abandoned Nazi railway station built near a town of only 500 people in the
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 19
Germany's Lost Warship
The Georg Thiele was a technological masterpiece, but it is a shipwreck, lost to the sea in a Norwegian Fjord after runn
Lost Highway in the Rainforest
A lost highway in the Brazilian jungle, a forgotten bunker system in the French Alps and a man-made island in the shadow
The Desert Ghost Fleet
The programme looks at a mysterious group of rusting ships stranded in an arid desert, a monstrous defensive line on the
The Underwater Prison
An abandoned prison beneath the water, a tunnel in the heart of a mountain, concrete towers hidden in the woods and a ru
The Siege Of Sarajevo
Concrete channels hidden in a mountaintop forest, a collapsing bridge, a marooned military base and the upright rusting
Sabotage in the Mountains
A towering structure with an explosive past, a deserted cityscape, a mysterious top-secret facility and a vast Nazi cons
Germany's D-Day Fortress
A devastated cliff-top ruin, an extraordinarily tall tower, a concrete structure stranded at sea and a heavy metal monst
Hitler's Wonder Weapons Bunker
Hidden tunnels that saw a city prosper, a sunken wreck with a remarkable past, a concrete wartime dome and a mysterious
A Ghost Town In Spain
A village ruin, pitted and scarred, a ghostly fleet of ships, a bridge to nowhere hidden in a forest and strange metal s
England's Abandoned Village
An eerie, empty country village which hides a sad secret, a mysterious tower battered by the elements and a disused rail
The World's Strangest Ghost Town
A settlement in Argentina destroyed by floods, a town in the US that has been erased, and a Soviet dream-town that turne
Palace of Death
A seemingly endless concrete line stretching through the French countryside, which sits as a monument to a discarded eng
Guernsey Nazi Towers
A little-known dark past explains the vast monolithic structures that dominate the small British island of Guernsey.
Bodie USA
Projects include a maze of tunnels filled with haunting remains beneath the streets of Paris and a strange formation of
Tunnel To The Underworld
A town in West Virginia that fell victim to the pace of change when steam trains became obsolete and an underground comp
Escobar's Ruin
Features a ruined compound in Colombia which was once home to Pablo Escobar and alien-looking structures with no apparen
Villa De Vecchi Rhodes
A formerly luxurious and strategic mountain-top villa on the island of Rhodes in the Mediterranean that's been ravaged b
Pyramiden Norway
A strange-looking deserted town with an almost supernatural atmosphere on a remote Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic O
Behind The Berlin Wall
Still standing today, a fierce-looking prison and an innocuous looking office building in Berlin were actually the headq
Bannack USA
A sprawling Wild West ghost town sits peaceful and abandoned in Montana, USA, but is still haunted by tales of murder, c
Buckner Building Alaska
A vast snowcovered monster in the icy wilderness of southern Alaska, a ruined super structure that overshadows everythin
1936 Olympic Village Berlin
A pioneering complex marked by both glory and tragedy that's soon to be lost forever, and towering remains from an indus
Disaster in the Desert
The desert town that faced a disaster of biblical proportions. Plus, vast coastal ruins that reveal a past once wiped fr
The Valkyrie Assassin
The underground base with the power to destroy a nation, the site linked with an attempt to kill a dictator, and an anci
Escape from Devil's Island
Claustrophobic prison cells that contain a story worthy of international acclaim, and a vast mountainside complex that h
Top Secret Nuclear Arsenal
A secretive underground base that concealed the power to destroy nations, and a sprawling industrial relic clinging to t
A Nation Torn Apart
Including an exploration of a marooned iron-clad structure in Portland, off the coast of England, that hides a dramatic
Ghosts of the Swamp
Including an exploration of forgotten relics from the defence of America's homeland, at Fort Jackson, USA, concealed by
Death Behind Bars
An American prison for the violent and deranged with links to an infamous cult leader, and a cavernous tunnel network in
Behind Enemy Lines
An Albanian village home to Allied secret agents, devastated for resisting the Nazi war machine, and a notorious asylum
The Lost Pirate City
What happened to an infamous pirate city in Jamaica? Also, a grim gulag in Croatia and a Louisiana plantation caught up
Forbidden Island
Examining a ghost island once belonging to a secretive country on the fringes of Europe. Also, a haunting site in the UK
Blast Zone
Within a dense Polish woodland sits a forgotten complex with an explosive history. Also, grand coastal defences in Ghana
North Of The Wall
A complex of stone buildings near Hadrian's Wall that were built to keep Northern hoards at bay. Also, a top secret mili
The World's Strangest Disaster Zones
An extended special featuring a deserted Caribbean city, an American ghost town still burning and an Arctic settlement f
Defenders Of Liberty
A now silent site that played a pivotal role defending the U.S through the 20th century. Plus, a crumbling Italian fortr
Space Plane
A juggernaut of Soviet engineering which was crucial to the international space race. Deserted Scottish coastal defences
Disaster On The 38th Parallel
The mysterious Cachtice Castle home to Elizabeth Bathory, said to have killed over 600 girls and a mysterious structure
Bunker Nation
A small isolated country littered with strange concrete mushrooms and a secret Japanese facility that was once at the fo
The Human Zoo
A creepy collection of buildings, monuments hidden in a Parisian park and an eerie graveyard of discarded ships strewn a
Spike Island
An impressive compound commandeered and repurposed by a brutal regime and an eerie complex off the coast of Ireland that
Hollywood Heroes
Legendary film sets with surprising pasts and real locations that inspired Hollywood. Within these decaying structures a
Stalin's Subway
In North Wales a secret facility which once manufactured mustard gas and enriched uranium lies in ruins. In Malta is a l
Disaster At The Maya Hotel
Ruins of a vast industrial ghost town in the United States, a windswept Scottish island and the remains of a resort in J
Murder Underground
An engineering masterpiece carved into the cliff-face, and a long-range beacon that transmitted one of the most infamous
El Dorado Canyon
An American desert canyon where fortunes were made and lives were lost, and an island fortress in Scotland with an Achil
The Mafia Bunker
An iron monster lost in the Alaskan tundra, a Crusader fort thrown into a modern conflict, and a prison built to house a
Ruins of the Rust Belt
A real-life concrete jungle in America's 'Rust Belt', and an industrial facility that brought energy to a remote corner
American Ghost Park
A Middle Eastern region littered with ruins and a strange facility in Taiwan that struck fear into the hearts of those w
Fortress of the Sky
Eerie ruins hiding in the forested hills of Arkansas, USA, and a disintegrating gulag in Albania that housed enemies of
Catastrophe and Cover Up
A volcanic island just off Taiwan containing chilling ruins from its darkest era, and a miniature railway that lies forg
Dead Sea Disaster
A fairy-tale castle that staged one of the strangest stories of the Second World War and a haunting complex on an old Am
Global Icons
Bizarrely-shaped huts in India, once home to global superstars, are now eerily quiet and neglected, and a shattered comp
Heroes & Villains
The home of an African dictator and a sporting hero, and the facility that held apartheid's greatest critic are abandone
Paradise Lost
Exploring a ghost town in Colorado, the remnants of an industrial enterprise in Puerto Rico, and a remote village on Cyp
A Royal Deception
Exploring a jungle refuge concealing a story of royal deceit, nuclear bunkers infiltrated by outsiders, and a haunted ho
Mafia Seaside Resort
Exploring a beachside resort with ties to the Russian mafia, a windswept base hiding lifesaving technology, and a site i
The Giant Speaker
Exploring a bizarre block in Taiwan resembling a giant speaker, a pioneering venture in Alaska, and an alpine village th
Cathedral of Sewage
An ominous tower in the forests of Croatia, a New York City complex that broke the mould, and a grand facility guarding
The Secret Bunker
Exploring a desert island with an infected past adrift from the US mainland, the brutalist palace of a mad Bulgarian dic
The Battle of San Pietro
Featuring Italian ruins immortalised by Hollywood, a crumbling Chilean city with two lives and a brutalist Scottish reli
Divine Intervention
Exploring a luxury resort that conceals a top-secret facility, a mysterious complex in Bali struck by disaster, and a re
Shadow of the Wars
Exploring a dystopian powerhouse in Pennsylvania, USA, a fairy-tale castle in Poland and AngloSaxon religious ruins acro
Death In Paradise
Exploring a bloody battleground on the Pacific Island of Peleliu and an ominous military stronghold in Russia.
Before The Crown
This episode travels to Chile, the Maltese capital Valleta, Havana and Germany, to reveal: honeymoon home of a young pri
Megalomaniac's Palace
Exploring a once lavish palace in Iraq, the Sathorn Unique, an epic ghost tower in Thailand, and a former sports stadium
Jungle Fantasy Land
Exploring the remains of a pioneering industry town in Ohio, a once beautiful Croatian resort bombarded by enemy fire, a
The Beached Leviathan
The graffitied remains of a correctional facility in Atlanta, USA with a controversial and unexpected past, forgotten re
Tunnel of Terrors
Exploring a military strong-hold in the Philippines, a facility that spawned an American sporting great, and an English
Apocolyptic Skyscraper
Exploring a ruined castle above a German village, a rural town in Idaho, a futuristic skyscraper in Johannesburg and a f
Ruins of Empire
Exploring a British fort that became a bizzare zoo, a brutalist school for Communist top brass and a lost world hides se
Trouble In Paradise
Exploring a luxury resort in Argentina, a Greek palace above a Mexican city and a former hotel in Hawaii.
Experiments of War
Exploring a crumbling dam hidden in the Welsh valleys, a quaint outpost on a paradise island, and a mastery of ancient e
Ancient Encounter
Exploring a picturesque French castle, the ruins of a Kansas City hospital, an ancient Turkish city, and an island in Ir
Alien Contact
Exploring a complex in Georgia pointing into deep space that almost discovered a signal from aliens.
Treasures To Die For
Exploring Hartwood, a haunting facility in Scotland, ruins of an ancient city in Iraq and a scandal hit town in New Mexi
Niagara's Hidden Marvel
Exploring a royal retreat caught in a web of corruption, an engineering marvel hidden behind the Niagara Falls in Canada
Raiders & Invaders
Explore Oradour-sur-Glane, a French town drenched in infamy, the victim of a notorious raid, Alcatraz, a facility famed
The Rock
The Tunnels of Gibraltar were a Second World War espionage base, hidden in the Rock of Gibraltar, which lay undiscovered
Enemy At The Gates
Exploring a series of vaults, hidden from view in Edinburgh, Scotland that tell a murky story of opportunity, crime and
Cowboy Mountain
Exploring the remains of an ingenious sky-high solution to a ground-based problem, Chiatura, once know as the Venice of
Drone Wars
Exploring Agdam, a city in Azerbaijan raised to the ground in a conflict decided by a new weapon of war.
Moonshot
Exploring an industrial ruin in the Florida Everglades that once competed in the greatest race humankind has ever witnes
Rock And Ruin
Exploring traces of a mass deception hidden at Ponte Dirillo in Italy, as well as a once lavish theatre in Ohio and an a
Castle Of The Occult
Explores a dense forest near the Czech capital of Prague that hides Houska Castle, an eerie keep that has been subject t
The Green Line
Exploring Serbia, Fort Pike in Louisiana, and a mountainside refuge in Georgia that was revealed to the world by an act
Blitz Spirit
Exploring a grand structure in Hull that was reduced to rubble by Hitler's planes, Casa Albero in Italy, USS Hornet in C
An American Exodus
Exploring a decrepit Liberian landmark with American origins, a desolate town in Belgium and a pioneering scientific str
The Drop
Exploring the Dew Drop Inn in New Orleans that dared to take on the authorities and paid the price and Belgica Fort, bui
Rock 'N' Roll Island
Exploring Air Studios, on the Island of Montserrat, that became a mecca for rock legends. Also Tskaltubo, in Georgia, bu
Penthouse Palace
Exploring Haludovo Palace Hotel in Croatia, Wolf's Lair, a German military complex and Herouni Mirror Radio Telescope -
Castle Kingdom
Exploring a theme park in Buenos Aires built in a time of terror and dogged by controversy, and a jaw-dropping collectio
Fake News Fortress
Exploring Dover Commando Fortress in South East England, where traces of a top-secret Commando raid are still visible.
The True Cross
Exploring Old Byron Hot Springs in the Californian desert - a once glittering Hollywood hotspot, converted into a top-se
Wonderland
A symbol of national pride that became a symbol of excess in the Turkish capital of Ankara.
K-Pop Dreamland
Exploring Yongma Land - a South Korean dreamland given a second life from the most unlikely of places.
Blues Prison
Exploring Old Joliet Prison, a battered facility near Chicago that descended into open war, but then hosted the Blues Br
Murder in Martinique
Exploring Chateau Aubery on the island of Martinique, where a criminal kingpin wiped out the opposition.
Italian Turf War
Exploring Castel Volturno in Campana in Italy, Colorado and HMP Shepton Mallet in Somerset.
The Montauk Conspiracy
Exploring Camp Hero in Long Island, and a salt mine in Poland.
Propaganda Palace
Exploring the Apollo Movie Theatre in Tbilisi, Georgia, an ornate shrine to Soviet propaganda.
The Rediscovery of Archaeopolis
Exploring a country estate in Ireland where family divisions reflected a national struggle and was caught in the crossfi
Hell Island
Exploring Anchieta, a tropical island complex in Brazil and the scene of a dramatic uprising.
Myth & Legend
Exploring the ruined site of Troy, that helped decode one of the world's most enduring mysteries.
Korea's Joan of Arc
Exploring Seodaemun Prison, a facility in Seoul that helped spawn a legend known as South Korea's Joan of Arc.
Pirates of the North Sea
Exploring Opa-Locka City Hall, a strange structure that began as the dream of an American Renaissance man, but soon turn
The Ghosts of Skeleton Coast
We explore Namibia's arid Skeleton Coast, where traces of a brutal but once vital industry lie scattered.
The Desert Pirates
We head to the Tunisian desert to explore a vast chain of ruins that once stood in the way of Allied Victory - until a b
Operation Just Cause
We explore Fort Amador, the site of an American invasion in Panama, and a grisly Polish facility that once caged members
The Real Schindler's List
We explore Schindler's Ark in the Czech Republic, a secret refuge in Europe's killing fields, and a lost Amazonian parad
Jailhouse Rebellion
We visit the decaying remains of Old Essex County Jail in New Jersey, a facility that became a powder keg of injustice t
Hunt for the Nazi Gold Train
We visit the Polish city of Walbrzych, where a fairytale castle on a cliff conceals a vast subterranean tunnel network l
Panama's Nazi Conspiracy
We explore Fort Sherman, a jungle stronghold in Panama built to defend a prized American possession that soon faced the
Murder on the Reservation
Exploring an Oklahoman town so wealthy it inspired a Hollywood film.
Slam Dunkin' in the USSR
Exploring a derelict stadium in Lithuania that hosted an unlikely Cold War matchup and an industrial relic in England.
Nightmare in El Paso
Exploring a crumbling hospital complex in Germany that became the site of unspeakable atrocities and a sprawling Texan f
Border Wars
Exploring two ornate buildings in Texas that were once at the heart of the Mexican Revolution and a top-secret facility
Napoleon's Mistress
Exploring a palatial ruin in Philadelphia built from the riches of an industrial golden age and a country palace in Pola
Hell's Waiting Room
Exploring a concentration camp in the Czech Republic used for a publicity stunt to fool the world and a stark facility t
Apocalypse Airbase
Exploring a nuclear-armed facility in Arkansas that served as America's last line of defence in the Cold War and an indu
Mafia Wars
Exploring derelict villas in Sicily that reveal the island's complicated history with the Mafia and an aristocratic mans
Japan's Poison Island
Exploring a complex in New Jersey infiltrated by a notorious gang, a tranquil Japanese island with a poisonous legacy, a
Hitler's Fortress of Fury
Exploring a serene institution in Wisconsin seized out of righteous anger, a Spanish settlement stained in innocent bloo
The Nazi's Last Stand
Exploring Nazi towers in Berlin that were defended to the bitter end by child soldiers, a Chicago institution that was t
Suicide Island
Exploring a Dover stronghold transformed during an unprecedented crisis, and a top-secret site in Japan used for wartime
London's Burning
Exploring a towering structure in London on the banks of the river Thames, witness to the city's darkest days, and a Wis
Cold War Cover Up
Exploring a top-secret military base in Michigan linked to an unexplained disappearance, and a California transportation
Escape from Dunkirk
Exploring the nerve centre of a heroic rescue mission in England, a dilapidated mansion in Virginia raided during the Ci
The Invisible Enemy
Exploring a top-secret facility in Scotland besieged by militant protesters, and a small Greek island caught in a chilli
Agent Zigzag
Exploring a Philadelphia venue that set the stage for era-defining artists, a French compound where a staggering decepti
Peru's Massacre Island
Exploring a remote Peruvian island besieged by a violent rebellion, a refuge in Nevada that offered hope to its occupant
Churchill's Folly
Exploring a secret New Jersey facility infiltrated by a Soviet spy ring, an island stronghold besieged by the Nazis, and
Churchill's Shadow War
Exploring a secret subterranean network in London that inspired James Bond author Ian Fleming, and an Italian country re
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