Expedition Unknown, which dives into the great enduring mysteries of the world, returns on Discovery and Discovery Plus July 21. Josh Gates hosts. 

The season premiere sees Gates bring the John Dillinger legend out of the past and into the present, adding a bunch of new details to the story about America’s greatest bank robber. 

The season sees Gates on a hunt for a massive fortune at the bottom of the Atlantic, investigating infamous skyjacker DB Cooper, and searching for the truth behind the legend of El Dorado in the jungles of Colombia. 

New episodes come out weekly on both Discovery and its streaming counterpart. 

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Expedition Unknown premiered in 2015. 

Gates has also hosted Syfy paranormal shows Destination Truth and Stranded. 

Expedition Unknown is produced for Discovery Channel by Ping Pong Productions. For Ping Pong Productions, executive producers are Brad Kuhlman, Casey Brumels and Josh Gates. For Discovery, Michael Gara is executive producer.

Travel Channel’s buzz-building efforts behind unscripted, four-part series Expedition Unknown: Hunt for the Yeti will culminate in a New York City-based, multisite street campaign tomorrow (Oct. 4), a day before the show’s premiere.

The special edition of Expedition Unknown — sending explorer Josh Gates to Nepal and Bhutan in search of the legendary abominable snowman — will hit the streets of Manhattan in a series-branded coffee truck offering passersby freshly-made iced coffees, tying in the cold drink with the frigid weather theme of the special and the environment that the Yeti is said to live in.

If that doesn’t wake up New Yorkers, the network’s also sending 26 costumed Yetis around the city on a branded double-decker bus that will eventually dock in midtown Manhattan at the Flatiron Plaza. There, the Yetis will flank two large ice sculpture displays set up in the plaza to draw attention to the series.

The Scripps Networks outlet hopes the Hunt for the Yeti special (Oct. 5 at 9 p.m.) will exceed the average 5.4 million viewers who tuned into season two of Expedition Unknown, which concluded this past June. Season three of Expedition Unknown is slated to premiere later this fall, the network said.

This item originally appeared in Through the Wire.

Travel Channel said it has ordered a third season of Josh Gates-hosted Expedition Unknown, to air on the Scripps Networks outlet later this year. The channel reported that ratings for the current season (Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT) are 143% ahead of its time slot's average a year ago among persons ages 25 to 54 and also has more than doubled results in other key demographics including 183% for women ages 25 to 54.  

Gates, who also is an executive producer on the show, journeys around the world in search of answers to some of the world’s most fascinating and iconic legends and stories. 

“As one of the network’s highest-rated programs, Expedition Unknown has shaped a strong and successful Wednesday night for Travel Channel,”  Courtney White, senior vice president, programming and production, at Travel Channel said in a release. “Like Andrew Zimmern and Jack Maxwell, Josh Gates resonates with our fans – with over 5.4 million people tuning in each week to join him on his worldwide adventures. This season, we’re upping the ante with bold, ambitious adventures and mission-driven storytelling – you can’t help but get hooked.”

Travel Channel is set to premiere an explorer's discovery of legends including, Amelia Earhart with a two-hour premiere of Expedition Unknown on Jan. 8 at 9 p.m., the network announced today.

The series follows Josh Gates, as the avid explorer sets out to discover the latest developments of iconic legends, from possibly uncovering Earhart's remains in Fiji to locating Captain Morgan's pirate ship in Panama and more.

“I’ve traveled to nearly 100 countries, but still feel like I haven’t scratched the surface of what’s out there to explore,” Gates said in a release. “There is such a deep well of fascinating and mystifying stories in the world, and each one connects so uniquely to different cultures. I’m driven by curiosity – and I’m on a mission to find answers.”

Produced by Ping Pong Productions for Travel Channel, the executive producers are Brad Kuhlman, Casey Brumels and Josh Gates for Ping Pong. Daniel A. Schwartz serves as the executive producer for Travel Channel.