The bizarre remnants of a housing complex lie mysteriously deserted in the Ohio industrial town of Campbell. Experts investigate and uncover the dark, turbulent past of the oppressive steel firm Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company and the labor strikes that resulted in deadly riots in 1916.

A looming skyscraper, Ponte City, once an exclusive residential complex, turns into a dystopian ruin in Johannesburg, South Africa; experts investigate and uncover a symbolic structure of urban decay under the shameful shadow of apartheid.