Baltimore has a major issue with aging infrastructure and a poor original design resulting in raw sewage in its waterways, a commuter train narrowly escapes tragedy on a rail bridge near Dublin, an eccentric Count in post-war Italy buys up land to build a hillside resort for the rich and famous that quickly encounters problems and eventually abandonment due to his reckless approach for the development, and an Irish housing estate is abandoned when the roads and services continue to sink though the houses themselves which were built on piles that remain stable.