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The Best Episodes of Expedition Unknown

Every episode of Expedition Unknown ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Expedition Unknown!

The adventures of Josh Gates as he investigates unsolved iconic stories across the globe.
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Best Episodes Summary

"Finding the Lost Pilots of WW2" is the best rated episode of "Expedition Unknown". It scored 9/10 based on 31 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/22/2023. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Chasing Bonnie and Clyde".

  • Finding the Lost Pilots of WW2
    9.0/1031 votes
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    #1 - Finding the Lost Pilots of WW2

    Season 13 Episode 2 - Aired 11/22/2023

    Josh dives deep into the Navy's heroic Pearl Harbor counterattack, uncovering an eyewitness who shares vivid details of American soldiers' executions. New intel leads to a discovery that changes history -- the first US plane ever found from this battle.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Chasing Bonnie and Clyde
    8.8/1025 votes
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    #2 - Chasing Bonnie and Clyde

    Season 13 Episode 5 - Aired 12/13/2023

    Tracking America's most infamous couple, Josh teams up with a former FBI agent to scour a legendary Bonnie and Clyde hideout. Then Josh hits the road on a 700-mile trip through the heartland to the site of the outlaw duo's most notorious shootout.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Missing Heroes of WW2
    8.7/1036 votes
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    #3 - Missing Heroes of WW2

    Season 13 Episode 1 - Aired 11/15/2023

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Hunt for Alexander the Great
    8.7/1025 votes
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    #4 - Hunt for Alexander the Great

    Season 14 Episode 1 - Aired 6/20/2024

    Josh hunts history's greatest treasure, the tomb of Alexander the Great.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Alexander's Lost Tomb
    8.7/1026 votes
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    #5 - Alexander's Lost Tomb

    Season 14 Episode 2 - Aired 6/27/2024

    The search for Alexander's remains and fortune extends to four countries.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Chasing Africa's Atlantis
    8.7/109 votes
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    #6 - Chasing Africa's Atlantis

    Season 14 Episode 5 - Aired 7/25/2024

    Josh dives the waters off Tanzania to find a lost city and its riches.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Secret
    8.5/1086 votes
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    #7 - The Secret

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 1/17/2018

    Josh travels across the United States to find the treasures featured in the cryptic 1982 book "The Secret"; Josh meets with members of the book's cult following, who each think they are on the verge of locating one of the 10 remaining treasures.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Egypt's Lost Queens
    8.5/1071 votes
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    #8 - Egypt's Lost Queens

    Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 2/14/2018

    Josh Gates continues his journey through Egypt to unearth the secrets and possibly the final resting places of Nefertiti and Cleopatra.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Lost City of the White Jaguar
    8.5/1035 votes
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    #9 - Lost City of the White Jaguar

    Season 13 Episode 3 - Aired 11/29/2023

    Trekking deep into Mexico's narco-controlled jungles, Josh hunts for the last Mayan stronghold to ward off the Spanish conquistadors; he joins an expedition braving snakes, spiders and jaguars to uncover the legendary Sac Balam.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Lost Tomb of the Viking King
    8.5/1025 votes
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    #10 - Lost Tomb of the Viking King

    Season 13 Episode 7 - Aired 12/27/2023

    Josh chases the treasure of legendary Viking Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson. The discovery of a mysterious gold artifact sends Josh on a journey through Scandinavia and into remote northern European forests to uncover Bluetooth's tomb and fortune.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Lost Gold of Scotland
    8.4/1077 votes
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    #11 - Lost Gold of Scotland

    Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 5/1/2019

    Hunting for a lost cache of gold, Josh Gates heads to the Scottish Highlands. His search focuses on a huge gold reserve hidden after the Jacobite Uprising of 1745 and never recovered. Josh joins treasure hunters chasing a new lead across the Highlands.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Egypt's Lost Tombs
    8.4/1030 votes
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    #12 - Egypt's Lost Tombs

    Season 11 Episode 8 - Aired 7/13/2022

    With breakthrough discoveries in Egypt, Josh races to join an active dig of 4000-year-old tombs. Josh gains exclusive access and uncovers mummies and treasure that could solve the mysterious collapse of ancient Egypt's Old Kingdom.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Mystery of the Flooded Pyramid
    8.4/1048 votes
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    #13 - Mystery of the Flooded Pyramid

    Season 12 Episode 2 - Aired 5/31/2023

    The conclusion to Josh Gates' dive into a Kush king's flooded pyramid tomb; Josh scales a mountain to learn how the Kingdom of Kush conquered Egypt and braves the murky waters for one more dive to find the king's mummified remains.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Tracking Tasmania's Tiger
    8.2/1064 votes
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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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Atlantis of the Andes
    8.2/1086 votes
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    #15 - Atlantis of the Andes

    Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 4/24/2019

    Josh Gates dives into a mystery below South America's Lake Titicaca. During the investigation, Josh discovers multiple structures of the ancient Tiwanaku people, including ruins hidden in the lake's depths, dubbed "The Atlantis of the Andes".

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls
    8.2/1066 votes
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    #16 - Mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls

    Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 8/8/2019

    Josh Gates travels to the Holy Land to unearth the mystery of the Dead Sea Scrolls with an archaeologist who has discovered new ones; Josh sees cutting-edge technology restore scroll fragments in a way that could change how people read the Bible.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Buried Secrets of Hitler
    8.2/1041 votes
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    #17 - Buried Secrets of Hitler

    Season 11 Episode 1 - Aired 5/25/2022

    With word of an urgent lead, Josh jets to Poland to join in the opening of a secret Nazi tunnel system dug into a dormant volcano. Josh helps a local team tear away a stone wall built by the Germans in the last days of World War II.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Nazi Buried Secrets
    8.2/1037 votes
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    #18 - Nazi Buried Secrets

    Season 11 Episode 2 - Aired 6/1/2022

    Josh Gates hunts for Third Reich secrets as he searches for stolen art in a flooded tunnel complex, tries to decode an officer's diary pointing to tons of plundered Nazi gold and visits the ruins of a city burned to ashes in the final days of WWII.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Lasseter's Gold
    8.1/1071 votes
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    #19 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Great Women of Ancient Egypt
    8.1/1071 votes
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    #20 - Great Women of Ancient Egypt

    Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 2/7/2018

    Josh journeys through the land of the Nile to uncover the buried secrets of three of the most powerful and elusive women in ancient Egypt -- Hatshepsut, Nefertiti and Cleopatra.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Fortune of the Buzzard
    8.1/1044 votes
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    #21 - The Fortune of the Buzzard

    Season 9 Episode 6 - Aired 3/11/2020

    Josh Gates takes on the Indian Ocean's punishing waters as he chases the lost treasure of Olivier Levasseur, AKA "The Buzzard," rumored to be worth more than a billion dollars.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Mayan Apocalypse
    8.0/10100 votes
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    #22 - Mayan Apocalypse

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/5/2015

    While investigating the fall of the remarkable Mayan Empire, Josh unearths human skulls and ancient Mayan sacrificial altars in the caverns underneath the jungles and ruins of Mexico.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Secrets of the Nazca
    8.0/1094 votes
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    #23 - Secrets of the Nazca

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/19/2015

    Josh travels to Peru to investigate the giant geoglyphs drawn into the earth by the ancient Nazca tribes and while studying newly found lines joining a Nazca psychadelic ritual, Josh discovers the meaning behind the mysterious tracings.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Lost City of El Mirador
    8.0/1062 votes
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    #24 - Lost City of El Mirador

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 6/5/2018

    Josh concludes his investigation into the mysterious Maya city of El Mirador, from the possible burial of the elusive Snake Kings to uncovering the secrets behind the fall of one of history's greatest ancient cities.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Siberia's Coldest Case
    8.0/1058 votes
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    #25 - Siberia's Coldest Case

    Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 9/5/2019

    Josh Gates concludes his in-depth investigation of the Dyatlov Pass incident; taking on Dead Mountain's brutal conditions, Josh and two investigators retrace the last steps of the hikers; a big discovery could finally solve the mystery.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A