7.5/1066 votes#1 - Plummer's Gold
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 11/2/2016
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.
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7.4/1073 votes#2 - 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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7.7/1066 votes#3 - The Vanished Empire
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 11/16/2016
Josh travels to Greece to explore Europe's first superpower and how it disappeared on the Mediterranean island of Crete.
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7.5/1071 votes#4 - 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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7.6/1027 votes#5 - Cloning the Woolly Mammoth
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 12/28/2016
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.
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7.7/1028 votes#6 - Journey to the Ice Age
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 1/4/2017
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.
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7.4/1027 votes#7 - 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 U.S. history.
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8.1/1071 votes#8 - 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.
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8.2/1064 votes#9 - 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.
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7.5/1081 votes#10 - Captain Kidd's Treasure
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 2/22/2017
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.
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7.4/1060 votes#11 - 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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7.8/1060 votes#12 - The Ark of the Covenant
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 3/8/2017
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.
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7.4/1031 votes#13 - England's Vanished Crown Jewels
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 3/15/2017
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.
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6.8/1032 votes#14 - Corsica's Nazi Treasure
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 3/22/2017
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.
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7.0/1030 votes#15 - Italy's Barbarian Booty
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 5/31/2017
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.
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7.7/1060 votes#16 - India's Atlantis
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 6/7/2017
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.
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7.4/1057 votes#17 - Lost Spanish Fortune Found!
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 6/14/2017
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.
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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!
The adventures of Josh Gates as he investigates unsolved iconic stories across the globe.
Genres:DocumentaryReality
Network:Travel Channel
Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Plummer's Gold" is the best rated episode of "Expedition Unknown" season 3. It scored 7.5/10 based on 66 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/2/2016. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Lost Tomb of Attila the Hun".