The BEST episodes of Expedition Unknown season 3
Every episode of Expedition Unknown season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Expedition Unknown season 3!
Expedition Unknown chronicles the adventures of Josh Gates as he investigates iconic mysteries across the globe. Gates begins by interviewing key eyewitnesses and uncovering recent developments in the story, then springboards into a fully immersive exploration. This authentic, roughshod adventure leads Gates closer to the truth behind these unanswered global enigmas, such as the disappearance of Amelia Earhart’s plane. Josh Gates is an adventurer and avid explorer with a unique brand of humor and passion for off-the-map excursions.
#1 - Lost Spanish Fortune, Found!
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 6/14/2017
Josh Gates travels the coast of Florida and to the newly opened country of Cuba in search of sunken treasure from a fleet of Spanish ships sunk in 1715. The hunt takes him deep into the Atlantic and into the previously sealed National Archives of Cuba.
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#3 - India's Atlantis
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 6/7/2017
Josh Gates travels to India in search of Dwarka, a mythical kingdom swallowed by the ocean. To find find evidence that the golden city is real, Josh dives into the Arabian Sea and visits a dig site that could rewrite history.
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#4 - Lasseter's Gold
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/18/2017
Josh Gates sets off deep into the Australian Outback, following the footsteps of legendary explorer Harold Lasseter, who claims to have found a vast field of gold. On the trail with two of Australia's foremost Lasseter experts, Josh follows the clues that ultimately lead to a breathtaking conclusion.
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#5 - Cloning the Woolly Mammoth
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/28/2016
To help clone the extinct woolly mammoth back to life, Josh visits a Korean biotech lab driving the project and excavates ancient bones in a Canadian mine. He then descends into a vast sinkhole in Siberia to unearth frozen DNA.
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#6 - Corsica's Nazi Treasure
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 3/22/2017
Josh hunts for the treasure of Erwin Rommel, a Nazi general who plundered the wealth of North Africa as his tank corps fled the continent. The search brings Josh to never-explored underground lakes and undersea relics of WWII.
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#7 - The Ark of the Covenant
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/8/2017
Josh follows in the footsteps of Indiana Jones as he searches in Israel and Ethiopia for the lost Ark of the Covenant, the sacred relic said to contain the Ten Commandments and possess extraordinary powers.
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#8 - The Lost Colony of Roanoke
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/23/2016
Josh Gates joins leading archeologists as they investigate America's first missing-persons case, The Lost Colony of Roanoke. Following newly discovered clues, he'll reach new heights as he digs for answers to this over 400-year-old mystery.
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#9 - Journey to the Ice Age
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/4/2017
To find a viable sample of mammoth DNA, Josh Gates retrieves bone samples from the massive Batagay crater, then journeys far upriver to a site in the lawless Siberian wilderness where tusk hunters carve out troves of bones from the permafrost. He takes the DNA samples back to the lab and watches the process of treating and testing the specimens. At long last, he views the DNA results to find out if the woolly mammoth will walk the earth again.
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#10 - England's Vanished Crown Jewels
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/15/2017
Josh goes on a quest to find the legendary lost treasure of King John. He explores the deadly marshlands of England to find the despised king's crown jewels, which were swept away in a freak tidal surge in the 13th century.
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#11 - Italy's Barbarian Booty
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 5/31/2017
To find the plundered riches of the Roman Empire, Josh Gates must locate the tomb of the Visigoth king Alaric in Italy. The hunt extends from the capital of Rome to the southern city of Cosenza, where the mayor is spearheading an effort to find the tomb.
#12 - Cracking the D.B. Cooper Case
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/11/2017
Josh Gates sets off on an expedition to crack the mystery behind the perpetrator of the only unsolved plane hijacking in US history. Picking up where the FBI left off, Josh joins citizen sleuths on the hunt for D.B. Cooper in the Pacific Northwest. He discovers new clues and theories before having the experience of a lifetime, jumping out of plane, just as Cooper did decades ago.
#13 - The Lost Tomb of Attila the Hun
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/9/2016
Josh Gates travels to Hungary to join three separate archeological teams looking for the lost tomb of Attila the Hun; legends and ancient texts lead the search from the bottom of the Danube to the mountain forests just outside of Budapest.
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#14 - Tracking Tasmania's Tiger
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/25/2017
Josh Gates ventures to Australia's island state of Tasmania to investigate sightings of the supposedly extinct Thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian Tiger. Recent eyewitness accounts and photographic evidence leave Josh eager to go on a tracking expedition to find out if the unusual-looking marsupial lives on Down Under.
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#15 - Captain Kidd's Treasure
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/22/2017
Josh retraces the footsteps of Captain Kidd in the hopes of finding his buried treasure. From the East Coast to the Caribbean, the search takes him to a real pirate shipwreck and to the island hideout of the notorious buccaneer.
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#17 - Africa's Cursed Lake of Gold
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/1/2017
Josh Gates journeys to the wilds of Namibia to embark on a treacherously deep dive in Lake Otjikoto for a long lost World War I treasure.
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