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Mysteries of the Abandoned

It's this Sovietconstructivist architecture. It's this Sovietconstructivist...

[dramatic music playing] [Geoff Wawro] It's this Soviet
constructivist architecture. [Geoff Wawro] It's this Soviet
constructivist architecture. Very practical,
very heroic, very grand-scale. It's hard to say,
at first glance,
what this thing is

Full Transcript

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[Geoff Wawro] It's this Soviet constructivist architecture.
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[Geoff Wawro] It's this Soviet constructivist architecture.
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Very practical, very heroic, very grand-scale.
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It's hard to say, at first glance, what this thing is.
Duration
13 seconds
Views
24
Timestamp in Movie
00:01:26
Uploaded
Jul 08, 2025
Season
9
Episode
19
Genres
documentary
Production
Mosfilm

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Movie Summary

The world's most incredible engineering projects are revisited to uncover why places full of mysteries and untold secrets are now abandoned ruins.
S09 • E06 But why put it here - Mysteries of the Abandoned 00:04
But why put it here
S09 • E02 It's not a ship, but it's not a plane, - Mysteries of the Abandoned 00:04
It's not a ship, but it's not a plane,
S09 • E08 [Steven] Elsewhere a series of bucolic structures - Mysteries of the Abandoned 00:13
[Steven] Elsewhere a series of bucolic structures
S09 • E22 [Dr. Mabry] What has survive - Mysteries of the Abandoned 00:07
[Dr. Mabry] What has survive
S09 • E03 [Sascha Auerbach] This looming tower - Mysteries of the Abandoned 00:04
[Sascha Auerbach] This looming tower
S09 • E18 [Bell] America's full of deserted towns - Mysteries of the Abandoned 00:13
[Bell] America's full of deserted towns
S09 • E11 They've clearly been sitting there in the weather - Mysteries of the Abandoned 00:06
They've clearly been sitting there in the weather
S09 • E21 And there's no mystery what this is. - Mysteries of the Abandoned 00:05
And there's no mystery what this is.
S09 • E17 [Mabry] Then you see this marquee with the word, "Variety" on it. - Mysteries of the Abandoned 00:05
[Mabry] Then you see this marquee with the word, "Varie...
S09 • E16 They weren't built to be beautiful. - Mysteries of the Abandoned 00:04
They weren't built to be beautiful.
S09 • E07 [Rob] During high tide, this place is entirely cut off, - Mysteries of the Abandoned 00:07
[Rob] During high tide, this place is entirely cut off,
S09 • E01 [Michele] This is a place that really looks like it has seen better days. - Mysteries of the Abandoned 00:14
[Michele] This is a place that really looks like it has seen...
S09 • E09 Hugging the banks of the River Glen, in west Central France, - Mysteries of the Abandoned 00:09
Hugging the banks of the River Glen, in west Central France,
S09 • E03 Looks like it sprung out of the pages - Mysteries of the Abandoned 00:05
Looks like it sprung out of the pages
S09 • E15 [Jim Meigs] As you get closer, you can see these buildings - Mysteries of the Abandoned 00:11
[Jim Meigs] As you get closer, you can see these buildings
S09 • E02 And if you ramble around inside, - Mysteries of the Abandoned 00:26
And if you ramble around inside,
S09 • E10 [narrator] This region is known - Mysteries of the Abandoned 00:11
[narrator] This region is known
S09 • E05 [narrator] Details that mark the history of this place are now missing. - Mysteries of the Abandoned 00:21
[narrator] Details that mark the history of this place are n...
S09 • E17 This could only be a theater. - Mysteries of the Abandoned 00:12
This could only be a theater.
S09 • E14 [Rob] This place was important enough - Mysteries of the Abandoned 00:23
[Rob] This place was important enough