The essential episodes of Expedition Unknown
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Expedition Unknown — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Adventurer Josh Gates hunts down new evidence on the disappearance of Amelia Earhart. He treks to uncharted tribal lands in Papua New Guinea and ends his journey in Fiji, hoping to uncover the pilot's remains.
- 02
Josh scours the Virginia backcountry in search of the legendary Thomas Beale treasure, which would be worth millions today. Since encrypted codes are hiding its whereabouts, Josh takes a detour to Philadelphia to uncover missing pieces of the puzzle.
- 03
Josh traverses England, Wales, and Scotland, wading through history and legend to search for evidence of a real King Arthur. In Wales, Josh has a close call rappelling into the hundreds of miles of underground caves.
- 04
One of the most iconic creatures of the Ice Age, the Woolly Mammoth, has gone extinct and Joash and the team search for enough DNA to clone a woolly mammoth.
- 05
Josh travels all over the US to find the treasures featured in The Secret, a cryptic book published in the 1980s. He meets with members of the book's cult following, who each think they're on the verge of finding one of the 10 remaining treasures.
- 06
Legend of the Snake King, Part 2
After Josh Gates' epic investigations into the mysteries of the world, he sits down with his crew and specialists to discuss his greatest discoveries and most surprising revelations.
- 07
Josh Gates dives into a mystery below the surface of Lake Titicaca in South America; during the investigation, Josh discovers multiple structures of the ancient Tiwanaku people, including ruins hidden in the depths, dubbed the Atlantis of the Andes.
- 08
Breaking news sends Josh Gates racing across the globe. One of the wickedly hard puzzles of The Secret, which Josh has been chasing for years, might have been solved. He's been crisscrossing the US, but this solution is in Josh's hometown.
- 09
The hunt for El Dorado is Josh's most grueling journey ever and one of the crew tumbles into a raging river. When cutting-edge aerial scans reveal a lost city, they push into the jungle to uncover El Dorado and the gold that comes with it.
- 10
With breakthrough discoveries in Egypt, Josh races to join an active dig of 4,000-year-old tombs; Josh gains exclusive access and uncovers mummies and treasure that could solve the mysterious collapse of ancient Egypt's Old Kingdom.
- 11
Plunging hundreds of feet below ground, Josh explores Spain's treacherous La Garma cave system and finds a floor littered with human remains more than 1,000 years old; Josh's deep dive is a quest for scientific proof of Spain's legendary King Pelayo.
- 12
Josh investigates America's daring response to Pearl Harbor, which destroyed a vital Japanese base in the South Pacific. Using brand-new intel, Josh dives in with Project Recover to find 40 planes and 200 American heroes lost in Operation Hailstone.
- 13
Josh meets the restoration team of the Fleet Air Arm Museum searching for parts of Fairey Barracudas, a model of British bombers of which no intact examples exist. He excavates a former airfield in St Andrews, Scotland then finds wreckage near Alta in the far north of Norway, where Barracudas once attacked the Nazi battleship Tirpitz.
- 14
Rewriting history, Josh helps discover a tomb at Petra's iconic Treasury building. Twelve skeletons may belong to a royal family of Petra. State-of-the-art tech could finally decipher the charred fragments of ancient scrolls explaining Petra's fall.
- 15
Mystery Ruins of the Stone Age
Josh investigates rumors swirling around a Turkish dig site that is 6,000 years older than Stonehenge. Separating fact from fiction, they uncover evidence of tribal skull rituals, debunking the legend of an alien-constructed observatory.
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