A salvage team discovers the mysterious remains of an enormous shipwreck near Cambridge Bay in the icy waters of the Canadian Arctic; experts investigate and uncover a cutting-edge vessel with links to one of the greatest polar explorers in history.
Preserved in the ice of Mexico's highest peak, a group of climbers stumble upon the bizarre, mummified remains of a man in a pinstripe business suit; experts uncover possible drug cartel connections and a plane crash shrouded in secrecy.
An unidentified metal object is found on Kiska Island; a centuries-old gold mining mystery is investigated; in Siberia, a network of ice tunnels is explored; fossils unearthed in the Canadian Arctic lead to the discovery of a new species.
Archaeologists discover an unusual man-made rock formation in the remote Altai Mountains of Russia, and conducting a further excavation, they unearth an ancient log cabin and the mummified remains of two bodies buried deep in the frozen permafrost.
Mountain climbers in California find the body of a U.S. Army soldier; strange bundles of canvas and wood are discovered on an Alaskan mountain; volcanic glass is found in an unexpected place; a vital World War II weather station is uncovered.
Climbers make a shocking discovery when they encounter the remains of two human bodies high atop New Zealand's Mount Cook; after a forensic investigation, a decades-old mystery reignites that could rewrite mountaineering history.
A new theory about the sinking of the Titanic emerges; a treeless circle in the middle of the woods is probed; a formation of giant whale bones is discovered sticking out of the ground; researchers study the loudest sound ever recorded underwater.
Archaeologists discover human remains during an excavation of a fifth-century fort on the Swedish island of Oland; after further investigation, experts unearth 26 skeletons and uncover the site of an ancient massacre.
When strange towers of ice are found growing in a barren, water-starved desert, experts speculate why these structures have uncanny similarities to extraterrestrial formations recently discovered on Pluto's alien landscape.
After a 2,500-year-old mummy is discovered in Siberia, locals report strange, cataclysmic events that point to an ancient curse; using cutting-edge archaeology, experts reveal who this person was and if they've unleashed something sinister.
Three graves are discovered on the frozen beach of an uninhabited Arctic island; the mummified corpses inside may answer a centuries-old mystery of an expedition that was literally consumed by the cannibalistic insanity of its mutinous crew.
A frozen lake deep in the Himalayas melts once a year to expose hundreds of human bones and a centuries-old mystery of astonishing carnage; leaving experts to speculate if it was a single catastrophic event or something much more sinister.
A top-secret military base hidden deep in the ice beyond the Arctic Circle is one of the Cold War's most elaborate cover-ups; recently declassified documents reveal its deadly purpose; the threat it might still pose to all humankind.