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.

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It was intended to bring the French rail network to the forefront of land based public transportation Developed in France from 1965 to 1977 the Aérotrain was an experimental Tracked Air Cushion Vehicle (TACV), or hover train. Now sections of concrete line are all that is left.

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On the island of Guernsey, stands an abandoned construction which was once the height of war technology. In 1942 the Germans decided they were vulnerable and built the reinforced concrete structures to defend their occupation of the islands.

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Bodie is a deserted town in USA. It became a boom town in 1876 after the discovery of gold. When that ran out, it declined and in 1915 was officially recognised as a ghost town. Also investigated, a maze of tunnels under Paris, and a group of domed structures standing in the sea of a Florida coast.

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An abandoned town in West Virginia owes its fate to the decline of steam trains. A 2000 year old underground system in Italy begs answers. A massive ex military dry dock on the American west coast lies in ruins, and an island in Costa Rica hides a grim history of mayhem in an old, abandoned prison.

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Once the home to dictator Pablo Escobar, a ruined compound in Colombia, and strange structures looking like an abandoned art project, in an empty English marshland in Denge, near Dungeness in Kent, are both investigated to reveal their secrets.

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On the island of Rhodes, a damaged and vandalised villa with a sordid past. In the woods of West Virginia a rusted industrial structure, and an edifice adorned with signs and symbols that spirals into the ground. What caused their decline ?

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The remains of a construction project in southern Germany, a Arctic Soviet mining town with a sad history, strange basins near the Golden Gate Bridge, and a deserted group of buildings on the southern tip of Australia. What happened to result in their current condition ?

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Tito's hidden Cold War submarine base on the island of Vis in Yugoslavia, the Stazi headquarters building and prison in Berlin, a disused sports centre hiding an underground bunker with sinister secrets, and an abandoned city within a city which housed the former Soviet Army Headquarters in East Berlin.

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In Montana USA, an abandoned wild west type town, a once peaceful village that profited from poison manufacture and sale destroyed by war, and a massive tunnel network under a mountain that cost thousands of lives, all now lie abandoned but not forgotten.

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Der Westwall, von den Alliierten Siegfriedlinie genannt, war die westliche Verteidigungslinie der deutschen Wehrmacht im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Von der niederländischen Grenze im Norden erstreckt er sich über mehr als 600 Kilometer bis zur Schweizer Grenze im Süden. Manche Abschnitte waren mit Bunkern und Panzersperren, den sogenannten „Drachenzähnen“, stark befestigt, andere Abschnitte im bergigen Gelände dagegen kaum. Entlang dieser Linie kam es zu mehreren kriegsentscheidenden Schlachten.

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A rusting wreck lying off the violent coast of South Africa, the remains of a village built in celebration but marked with controversy, and the deserted shell of a house that is still feared by the locals. Why were they abandoned and fall into disuse ?

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