Museums are where America displays its treasures – important and sometimes strange remnants of the momentous events that have shaped our history. And behind each artifact are secrets waiting to be revealed.
EPISODE 1
Siamese Twins; Assassin Umbrella; Capone's Haunted Cell
The death cast of Cheng and Eng; an umbrella from a Cold War assassination; the legend of an Al Capone jail cell.
EPISODE 2
Rag Doll and Bridge Collapse
Blueprints show the cause of a bad engineering mistake in U.S. history; a journal inspired a work of literature; a scary rag doll.
EPISODE 3
Prison, Manuscript, Mammoths
The examination of a uniform; a manuscript; ice age; the secrets of a child's rag doll; a deadly engineering disaster.
EPISODE 4
French Connection, Shipwrecked Gold, Area 51 Plane Crash
Don looks at how a drug syndicate was brought down; a gold ingot from a sunken ship; a relic from Area 51.
EPISODE 5
Eastland Disaster and More
Uncovering the cause of the Eastland Disaster; a possible map to a gold mine; the weapon in a double murder.
EPISODE 6
American Spy, Belle Gunness
A mailbox from the Cold War; an antique wheelbarrow's secret; a preserved monster head from a probable sea beast.
Seth Porges
Katherine Alcock
Lawrence Derx
Loren Coleman
Kyle Merker
Don Wildman
Nicola Moody
Dominic Stobart
David E. Gerber