What hides an uninhabited island with a prison in Croatia?
Vast buildings, ghost towns, industrial surfaces and a long etcetera, are some of the places that make up the long list of abandoned spaces around the world . Their power of seduction is such that normally, the peculiar charm of the area is entirely due to them.
Any traveler enjoys visiting these territories that seem keep so many secrets . However, these sites had a reason for being, a reason, and sometimes, it is about gruesome stories far removed from everything we know as fun and kindness.
DMAX premieres today at 17:45 a new season of your show Abandoned Engineering, a series that opens the doors to viewers of the most mysterious places in the world . What were they built for? Why were they abandoned?
Devil's Island was the prison of murderers and political criminals.
But far from the innate curiosity linked to knowing the chilling stories told by the walls of these buildings , in these episodes they go one step further. Really, sometimes they are scarier waste and social inconvenience that caused these spaces, that the possible ghosts that walked its corridors.
Thus, traveling around the world, it will be about uncovering the high financial and social costs that caused the failure of these places, as well as the environmental and ecological impact which led to its subsequent abandonment.
But it wasn't all going to be bad memories. Luckily, you will also be able to see the plans that different professionals devised to give these projects a new life and be able to get a new use out of them.
SECRETS IN RUINS
Although most of the stories are dark and involved in crimes, these constructions also bring to light true gems. Is about impressive natural enclaves, either for their beauty or for the fear they instill.
One of the most popular is Devil's Island in the Atlantic Ocean . Its name seems to fit like a glove, since this island served as imprisonment of murderers and political criminals . Used during the time of Napoleon III, its conditions are also terrifying: tiny cells not suitable for clautrophobics among other undesirable features.
Caves, ruins, passageways, prisons... Are you ready?
Effort versus destruction and death versus heroism is what you breathe in places like a cable car that leads to a deadly stay in the middle of the mountains of southern Africa, the ruins of a prison in Croatia known as croatian gannet , or underground places under the Highlands of Scotland.
Abandoned engineering collects remote places, some product of the intervention of man and others, fruit of nature. Hydroelectric power plants, nature reserves such as Ralsko which was an old military training camp, natural waterfalls like the Willamete Falls or the mysterious structures of the Cuban jungle , among many others.
They have been living with the present for many years, some more hidden than others, but they keep stories worth telling, not only because of its terrible profits, but because of the strange circumstances of its abandonment . Do you dare to discover it?
Who inhabited them? Why did they fall into oblivion? The mystery is served.