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The Best Episodes of Expedition Unknown Season 3

Every episode of Expedition Unknown Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Expedition Unknown Season 3!

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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Expedition Unknown Season 3 Episode 9 - Tracking Tasmania's Tiger
    8.3/10(77 votes)

    S3:E9

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Expedition Unknown Season 3 Episode 8 - Lasseter's Gold
    8.2/10(84 votes)

    S3:E8

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Expedition Unknown Season 3 Episode 12 - The Ark of the Covenant
    7.9/10(72 votes)

    S3:E12

    Josh Gates 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  4. Expedition Unknown Season 3 Episode 3 - The Vanished Empire
    7.7/10(77 votes)

    S3:E3

    Josh travels to Greece to explore Europe's first superpower and how it disappeared on the Mediterranean island of Crete.

    Director:Unknown
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  5. Expedition Unknown Season 3 Episode 16 - India's Atlantis
    7.7/10(67 votes)

    S3:E16

    Gates travels to India in search of Dwarka, a mythical kingdom swallowed by the ocean. To find evidence that the golden city is real, Gates dives into the Arabian Sea and visits a dig site.

    Director:Unknown
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  6. Expedition Unknown Season 3 Episode 1 - Plummer's Gold
    7.6/10(79 votes)

    S3:E1

    Josh Gates sets off for gold rush country to search for the lost fortune of a notorious Montana sheriff. During his investigation, Josh explores hidden cave systems and blows open a mine that's been sealed for over a century.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Expedition Unknown Season 3 Episode 6 - Journey to the Ice Age
    7.6/10(33 votes)

    S3:E6

    Josh retrieves bone samples from the massive Batagay crater and gets DNA results to find out if the woolly mammoth will walk the earth again.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Expedition Unknown Season 3 Episode 10 - Captain Kidd's Treasure
    7.6/10(91 votes)

    S3:E10

    Josh Gates retraces the footsteps of the legendary 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Expedition Unknown Season 3 Episode 11 - Africa's Cursed Lake of Gold
    7.6/10(71 votes)

    S3:E11

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Expedition Unknown Season 3 Episode 4 - The Lost Colony of Roanoke
    7.5/10(83 votes)

    S3:E4

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  11. Expedition Unknown Season 3 Episode 5 - Cloning the Woolly Mammoth
    7.5/10(31 votes)

    S3:E5

    One of the most iconic creatures of the Ice Age, the Woolly Mammoth, has gone extinct and Josh and a team search for enough DNA to clone a woolly mammoth.

    Director:Unknown
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  12. Expedition Unknown Season 3 Episode 17 - Lost Spanish Fortune Found!
    7.5/10(68 votes)

    S3:E17

    Gates travels down to the coast of Florida and to Cuba in search of a sunken treasure from a fleet of Spanish ships that were sunk in 1715; the hunt takes him deep into the Atlantic and the National Archives of Cuba.

    Director:Unknown
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  13. Expedition Unknown Season 3 Episode 2 - The Lost Tomb of Attila the Hun
    7.4/10(86 votes)

    S3:E2

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  14. Expedition Unknown Season 3 Episode 7 - Cracking the D.B. Cooper Case
    7.3/10(31 votes)

    S3:E7

    Josh Gates sets off on an expedition to crack the mystery behind the perpetrator of the only unsolved plane hijacking in U.S. history.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Expedition Unknown Season 3 Episode 13 - England's Vanished Crown Jewels
    7.3/10(38 votes)

    S3:E13

    Gates tries to find the lost treasure of King John. He explores the marshlands of England to find the king's crown jewels, which were swept away in a freak tidal surge in the 13th century.

    Director:Unknown
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  16. Expedition Unknown Season 3 Episode 15 - Italy's Barbarian Booty
    6.9/10(36 votes)

    S3:E15

    To find the plundered riches of the Roman Empire, Gates looks for 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  17. Expedition Unknown Season 3 Episode 14 - Corsica's Nazi Treasure
    6.8/10(39 votes)

    S3:E14

    Gates hunts for the hidden treasure of Erwin Rommel, a Nazi general who plundered the wealth of North Africa as his tank corps fled the continent. The search brings Gates to never-explored underground lakes and undersea relics of World War II.

    Director:Unknown
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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Tracking Tasmania's Tiger" is the best rated episode of "Expedition Unknown" season 3. It scored 8.3/10 based on 77 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/25/2017. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Lasseter's Gold".