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.
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.
Archaeologists make a grim discovery when they uncover the remains of a mummified boy buried in the frozen Siberian landscape, and as researchers continue their excavation, they uncover 88 additional graves linked to a mysterious, ancient necropolis.
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.
Experts make a chilling new discovery when they unearth a 30,000-year-old zombie virus from an icy grave; if this ancient disease is successfully resuscitated back to life, it could cause a catastrophic global calamity.
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.
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.