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♪♪

Koper: You Have To Have
Special Permission To Be Here.

Sure, You Got A Train Full
Of Gold Under Your Feet.

People Are Gonna Wanna Find It.
-Yeah, Of Course.

♪♪

Something Here Is Sticking
Out Of The Weeds.

Hold On. I'm Gonna Try
And Take It Out.

We Are Talking About
The Largest Underground Facility

Ever Built.

Oh, My God!

♪♪

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
What Is That?

It's A Boat!
How [Bleep] Cool Is That?!

I Can't Believe
You Found This.

What Is This Place?
-Nobody Exactly Knows.

♪♪

Oh, No!

Whoa, Whoa.
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! [ Grunts ]

♪♪

It's Been Nearly
Three-Quarters Of A Century

Since The End Of World War Ii,

But One Battle
Is Still Being Waged.

It's The Fight To Find
And Return

Countless Treasures
Stolen By The Nazis.

-Hitler: Sieg Heil!
[ Ss Soldiers Cheer ]

Gates: As Hitler's Forces

Plunder Their Way
Through Europe,

They Loot A Fortune

In Gold, Art, And Relics
To Fund Their War Machine.

They Also Build
Extensive Networks

Of Hidden Tunnels And Bunkers,

Many Of Which
Have Never Been Found.

Today, Explorers
Are Using Modern Technology

To Recover Lost Treasure

And Excavate
The Underground Legacy

Of The Third Reich.

Recent Headlines Have Announced
Sensational Discoveries,

Including Piles Of Art Found
Inside An Old Man's Attic.

However,
It's The Most Recent News

That May Expose
The Nazis' Greatest Secrets.

At This Moment,

An Explorer Is Using Sonar
And Cutting-Edge Robots

To Search For
A Legendary Cache Of Gold

Hidden In A Deep Alpine Lake.

And There Are Reports
That Two Researchers

Have Identified More Gold

In A Nazi Train Hidden
Inside A Mountain In Poland.

And In Austria, A Historian
Appears To Have Found

The Entrance
To A Subterranean Facility

That Could Be A Top Secret Lab
To Build A Nazi Atomic Bomb.

This Real-Life Adventure
Is Unfolding Right Now.

So I'm Setting Off To Join
These Modern-Day Monuments Men

To Find The Stolen Treasures

And The Darkest Secrets
Of The Third Reich.

[ Singing In German ]

♪♪

My Name Is Josh Gates.

With A Degree In Archaeology
And A Passion For Exploration,

I Have A Tendency To End Up
In Some Very Strange Situations.

Good Lord!

Aah! [ Laughs ]

My Travels Have Taken Me
To The Ends Of The Earth

As I Investigate
The Greatest Legends In History.

We're Good To Fly. Let's Go.

This Is "Expedition Unknown."

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To Unlock The Lost Secrets
Of The Third Reich,

I Begin In The Birthplace
Of The Nazi Party -- Munich.

Germany Is, Of Course,

One Of The World's
Leading Producers

Of High-End Automobiles.

So When It Comes Time
To Get Across Town,

I'm Handed The Keys...
To Nothing.

[ Bell Dings ]
Here We Go.

All Right,
It's Been About 10 Years

Since I've Been On A Bike.

But You Know What They Say
About Ridin' A Bike.

It's Like Ridin' A Bike.

But It Turns Out
Two Wheels Are Enough.

With Hundreds Of Miles
Of Bike Lanes,

Almost 20% Of All Traffic Here
Is By Bicycle,

Which Is Why Munich Is
The Best Place In The World

To Have A Paper Route.

♪♪

Munich's The Kinda City
That Makes You Wanna

Quit Your Day Job

And Invest
In Some German Lessons.

♪♪

You Know, Germans
Have This Reputation

For Being A Little Bit Serious,
A Little Bit Uptight.

But, Man, Munich Does Not Seem
To Have Gotten The Memo.

Everybody Here Seems To Be
Having A Really Good Time.

And Why Not?
This Is A City Built On Beer.

♪♪

By The Luckiest Of Breaks,
I'm Here In Munich

During The 16-Day-Long Carnival
Known As Oktoberfest,

Which Is Like Mardi Gras

With A Lot More Dudes
In Lederhosen

And Women In Hot Peasant Garb.

♪♪

I've Got A Meeting
Tomorrow Morning

With A Prominent Journalist

Who's Going To Get Me Started
On The Hunt For Nazi Secrets.

With An Evening To Kill,

And A Lot Of Brain Cells
Ready To Go With It,

I Follow The Foot Traffic

Toward The Large Tent Crammed
With More Than 5,000 People.

♪♪

It's Drunken Christmas!

The Real Attraction Here Is,
Of Course, The Beer.

It Arrives By The Liter.

And In Munich,

You're Never Too Young
To Start Appreciating It.

All Right.
How Does This Work?

Where Does The Beer Come From?
-Okay.

You're Gonna Wait
For A Waitress.

Gates: Each Of The Beer Steins
Weighs About 3 Pounds,

And That's When They're Empty.

The Waitresses Here Have Triceps
Like Steel Cables.

Good God! Okay, Here We Go!

-Now We Go! Prost!
-All: Prost!

♪♪

[ Singing In German ]

Gates: Hey, Jj!
We're Filming Here!

Unbeliev--
No Professionalism.

♪♪

Tonight Is That Rare
"Expedition Unknown" Moment,

That Snowflake Of Television

Where I'm Completely
Pulling The Pin.

Get Ready, Folks.

[ Shouts In German ]

Oh! Whoa!

♪♪

[ Record Needle Scratches ]
-Just A Quick Update Here.

I'm [Bleep] Faced.

[ Song Resumes ]

♪♪

Here's What I Need Right Now --
A Set Of Lederhosen.

Can I Borrow Your Lederhosen?

Yes?
-[ Speaks Indistinctly ]

[Bleep] Yes!

Gates: Fyi -- The Going Rate
For A German Guy

To Switch Pants With You Is
20 Euros And A Beer.

♪♪

[ Birds Chirping ]

I'm Not Exactly Sure
If There's Such A Thing

As Too Much Fun.

But If So, Last Night Was It.

And Yet You Could
Call The Setting Research

For My Mission.

After All, It Was In
The Beer Halls Of Munich

Almost A Century Ago

Where The Nazi Party Began
To Recruit Its First Members.

Only 10 Years
After A Failed Coup In 1923,

Adolf Hitler Rose To Become
Chancellor Of Germany.

The New Government
Restricted Rights

And Confiscated The Property

Of Jews
And Other Minority Groups --

Gold, Jewelry, And Art

Used To Fund
The German War Machine

And To Personally Enrich Hitler
And His Loyal Inner Circle.

♪♪

Here, In The Konigsplatz,
Munich's Main Square

That Was Once The Stage
For Hitler's Political Rallies,

I'm Meeting Konrad Kramar,

A Historian
And Investigative Reporter

With Intel
On The Latest Searches

For Elusive Nazi Secrets.

Right Here In Munich,

Right In The Center
Of This City,

An Apartment
Was Discovered,

Owned By Son Of An Art Dealer
For Hitler.

-Uh-Huh.
-And In This Apartment,

He Kept A Collection
In The Value Of $700 Million.

All Stolen Art?

All Stolen Art,
All Art Hitler Wanted.

Why Do You Think
So Much Of This Art

Is Coming To Light Now?

Simply Because 20% Of The Art
The Nazis Robbed

Is Still Missing,
Pictures With A Value

Of Around
$7 Billion Today.

$7 Billion?

Major Pieces
Of European Art.

One Of The Other Things,
Along With The Art,

That I Hear So Much About,

Are These Tunnel Systems
That Keep Getting Discovered.

The Nazis, Even At
The End Of The World War,

Had The Most Advanced
Weapons Production

On Earth.

And, Of Course, They Had Plans
To Build A Nuclear Bomb.

For That,
They Built Giant Tunnels

And Tunnels Of A Size,

Which Have Been Underestimated
Up To Now

Because Recently,
We're Discovering New Tunnels

Which We Didn't Know
About Before.

Gates: The Tunnel Systems
Found All Over Europe

After The War Seemed
To Have Been A Nazi Obsession --

Hiding Train Tracks,
Factories, And Secret Labs.

And Tunnels Weren't
The Only Places

That The Nazis Squirreled Away
Their Secrets.

At The End Of The War, Most
Of The High-Ranking Nazis --

And We're Talking About People
Like Goebbels Himself --

Anything Of Value
They Could Grab,

All Of These Guys
Truck All Of This

Into The Heart
Of The Austrian Alps.

Those Remote Alpine Areas
Are Being Searched

Because There Is Still Something
Out There To Be Found.

There Really Is
A-A-A Lot More Here To Find

Than I Really Realized.

Well, While We're Standing Here
In Munich Talkin' About History,

A New Story Just Recently
Popped Up In Poland,

A Train,
A Nazi Train Full Of Gold,

Hidden Until Now.

That Shows Us How Much There Is
Still To Discover.

Gates: A Train Car
Full Of Looted Gold,

Untold Riches
In Alpine Hideouts,

Underground Weapons Labs.

There's Several Stories For Me
To Investigate,

But I'm Going
To Start With The One

That's Been Making
International News.

Thank You.

So I Board A Northbound Train
Headed For Poland.

The Headlines Are
Attention-Grabbing --

A Forgotten Nazi Railcar
Hidden In Poland

And Possibly Filled To The Brim
With Treasure.

But Does This So-Called
Gold Train Exist?

And If So, Where Is It Buried?

I'm About To Find Out.

♪♪

♪♪

Gates: In World War Ii,
The Nazis Hid

Billions Of Dollars
In Treasures.

And I'm Hot On The Heels
Of The Intrepid Explorers

Attempting To Get Them Back.

So The Hunt
For Nazi-Era Artifacts

Continues To Unfold In Different
Countries Throughout Europe.

So I'm Headed North To
A Very Small Village In Poland

That Has Recently
Been Very Big News

Ever Since Two Treasure Hunters
Announced

An Unbelievable Discovery.

Two Self-Funded Researchers
Say They've Obtained

A Deathbed Confession
From A Former Nazi Guard.

He Reveals The Existence

Of A Train Car Loaded
With Plundered Gold

That's Sealed
In An Underground Tunnel.

Now They Claim To Have
Pinpointed The Train's Location,

Setting Off A Media Firestorm.

♪♪

After An 8-Hour Train Ride,
I Arrive In Walbrzych,

Which Is Spelled Kind Of
Like It Sounds,

Except You Need To Add A "Y"
And An "R" And A "Z."

Okay, No, You Put The "Z"
In The Wrong --

You Know What, Forget It.
Just...Here.

♪♪

Chilly Morning Here,
In The Town Of Walbrzych.

This Is A Place
That First Showed Up On Maps

During The Middle Ages.

Later, It Became
A Major Coal Mining Center

At The Edge
Of The German Empire.

After World War Ii, Though,
It Was Handed Over To Poland.

And It Still Has A Lot

Of Really Beautiful
Old World Architecture.

But With The Decline
Of The Mining Industry,

It Also Feels Kind Of Empty.

♪♪

With Its Glory Days Behind It,

Walbrzych Has Become
A City Of Eerie Quiet.

But In That Quiet
Lives A Mystery

That Has Remained Unsolved
After More Than 70 Years.

To Learn The Latest
On The Story,

I'm Speaking With
Journalist Joanna Lamparska,

Who's Requested To Meet Me

At An Abandoned Structure
In The Hills Above Town.

Lamparska: Okay...

-I Got It.
-Okay.

-Wow, This Is Incredible.
-Yeah.

This Place Is Amazing.

Hitler's Last Shrine?
-Yeah.

Yeah.

Gates:
This Is The Totenburg Mausoleum,

Also Charmingly Known As
"The Death Palace."

It Started As A Monument To
Honor The Dead From World War I,

But The Nazis Used This
As A Meeting Place.

There Are Even Whisperings
That Strange Occult Ceremonies

Were Practiced Here.

♪♪

So They Would Do --
They Would Do Rituals Here?

Wow.

-Spooky.
-Yeah.

-It's Creepy.
-Yeah.

Obviously, This Was
An Important Area

For -- For The Nazis.

Gates: The Top Secret Project
Was Aptly Named.

Riesemeans "Giant" In German,

And Reflects The Nazis'
Immense Ambitions.

They Aspired To Construct

Six Massive
Underground Facilities

Beneath The Town,

All Interconnected
By Rail Lines.

The Huge Complexes Were
To Be Controlled

By Hitler Himself
From A Headquarters

Under The 13Th-Century
Ksiaz Castle Nearby.

Were These Unfinished
Subterranean Facilities

Meant For War Factories

Or, As Some Claim,

To Store And Protect The Nazis'
Greatest Stolen Treasures?

That's Where
The Missing Train Comes In.

What Is The Legend Of The Train?
Where Does That Come From?

Gates: "Disappears"
Is Not An Understatement.

The Local Legend Says That
At The Edge Of Town,

Between Kilometer Marker 61
And Kilometer Marker 65,

The Train
And Its Mystery Cargo

Simply Vanished
From The Face Of The Earth.

When The Story
Broke In The News,

These Guys Said
"We Imaged This Area.

We Definitely See Something
Down There."

Do You Think There's Something
Down There Or No?

Personally?

Gates: Everything
May Be Possible,

But Only One Thing Is Certain.

If The Train Does Exist,

It's Somewhere In The Tunnels
Of Project Riese.

And Getting Inside
Is Easier Said Than Done.

[ Train Whistle Blows ]

But What About The Place Where
The Train Was Supposedly Found?

Surely There's
An Entrance There?

Not So Fast.

When News Of The Gold Train
Was Announced,

The Entire Area Was
Sealed Off By The Police

And Remains Strictly Off-Limits
To The Public.

However, I've Been Granted
Special Access

By Investigators
Darek Tomalkiewicz

And Olek Koper.

-Hi, I'm Olek.
-Olek, Nice To Meet You.

Darek.

Thank You For, Uh,
Meeting Me Here.

This Is The...
-This Is The Place.

-Scene Of The Crime.
-Yeah.

And The Police Have
Roped It Off.

And Obviously, There's --
There's Police Here Now.

So They're Just Making Sure
Nobody Comes In Here?

Is That What's Happening?

The Police,
Uh, Secured The Place.

You Have To Have, Uh,
Special Permission

To -- To Be Here.

Sure, You've Got A Train Full
Of Gold Under Your Feet.

People Are Gonna Wanna Find It.
-Yeah, Of Course.

Are These
The Same Train Lines

That Were Running
In The 1940S Here?

[ Speaking Polish ]Interpreter: Yes.

These Are The Same Tracks
That The Nazis Built In 1944

As Part Of Construction
For Project Riese.

What Happened Here?
What Was Discovered Here?

Recently, Two Men Used
Ground-Penetrating Radar

To Search For The Train.

Right Where We're Standing,

They Got Some
Very Strange Readings.

Koper:
They Showed Some Pictures.

But Nobody's 100% Clear About,
Is -- Is It The Train?

Gates: The Men Imaged
What Appears To Be

A Large Mass Under This Hill,

Which Happens To Be Right Near
Kilometer Marker 65,

Where Legend Says
The Train Vanished.

Translator:
The Theory Is That The Train
Was Pushed Onto A Side Track

That Led To The Underground
Riese Facility Beneath Our Feet.

Gates:
There's Just One Problem --

Nobody Can Seem To Agree
On What The Men Really Found.

It Could Be A Train
Full Of Gold,

Or It Could Be A Rail Car
Filled With Weapons

Or Deadly Chemicals,

Or It Could Be Nothing At All,
Just A False Hit.

Finding Out Which,
That's The Challenge.

Let's Get Real Here
For A Second, Boys.

♪♪

Underneath Our Feet
Could Be Millions

And Millions Of Dollars
Worth Of Gold, Yes?

Mm-Hmm.

Now I Know There's A Store
In This Town That Sells Shovels.

How's About The Three Of Us
Dig It Up?

These Guys Won't Mind, Right?
We Can Dig It Up, Yeah?

Guys, We'll Cut
You In! No?

Okay, So Until The Authorities
Figure Out What's Under Us,

No One Is Allowed To Dig Here.

But With Hundreds Of Miles
Of Project Riese

Hiding Under The Town,

Darek And Olek Think
They Might Have Another Way

To The Tunnels
And The Train Car.

We Hike Along The Tracks
Into The Woods,

Where Something Extraordinary
Is Hiding In Plain Sight.

♪♪

Wow, This Is --
This Is Incredible.

What -- What Is This Place?

Nobody Exactly Knows.

This Eerie Ruin Is
Known As A Sówka.

All Around Us Are
Strange Foundations,

Remnants Of Buildings,
And Collapsed Passages.

Some People Believe That, Uh,
It Could Be A Power Plant,

Which Would Supply
Whole Riese, Uh, Complex.

Yeah, I Was Gonna Say,
Those Columns

Look Kind Of Industrial,
Like Chimneys, Yeah?

Has It Been Fully Excavated?

It's Not Fully Explored.

Some People Believe That
Under This, Uh, Construction,

There Are Some
Other Levels.

All Right, Let's Go --
Let's Go Check It Out.

Gates: Project Riese Has Left
The Ground Here Pockmarked

With Deep Holes.

But We Don't Know
If They Offer Us

A Route To The Train.

To Find Out,
Darek And Olek Have Brought

Some Soviet-Era
Mining Equipment,

Repurposed
For Nazi Treasure Hunting.

This Is Like A Dharma Initiative
Beer Cooler From "Lost."

Gates:
This Is My First Time Using

A Gas-Powered Black-And-White
Video Camera In A Cooler.

[ Motor Starts ]
There We Go!

The Monitor Is So Old,
I Wouldn't Be Surprised

If "The Honeymooners"
Popped Up On The Screen.

But I'll Be Damned If The Thing
Doesn't Work Like A Charm.

Okay, You Ready? Ready?

-Yeah, Ready.
-Here We Go.

We Lower The Camera
Down Into The Earth

With No Knowledge Of What Might
Be Lying Beneath Our Feet.

Wood Timbers, Yeah?

Koper: Yeah,
These Are Wood Timbers.

-Old.
-They Haven't Finished It Yet.

And Then -- Ooh, Tunnel!

We Got A Tunnel!
-Yeah, There Is A Tunnel!

♪♪

♪♪

Gates: In Southern Poland,

Local Explorer
Darek Tomalkiewicz

Is Attempting To Use
A Remote Video Camera

To Peer Into
The Subterranean Remains

Of The Infamous
Nazi Project, Riese.

And Then -- Ooh, Tunnel!

We Got A Tunnel!
-Yeah, There Is A Tunnel!

Look At That! Just Goin' Off
Into The Darkness.

-Yeah.
-To Where, I Don't Know.

That's A Room That
Probably Nobody Has Seen Into

Since The End
Of World War Ii.

Yeah, Probably.

That's Cool.

The Wooden Corridor Looks Like
It's On The Verge Of Collapse.

And None Of Us Are Going
To Fit Down A 12-Inch Pipe.

Okay, Comin' Up!

But Lucky For Us, The Remains
Of Project Riese Are Extensive,

And Darek Has A Backup Plan.

We Hike About A Mile
To A Gated-Off Entrance

To A Massive Tunnel.

Wow.

Drilled Directly Into The Side
Of The Sowie Mountains,

This Is One
Of The Largest Entrances

To Project Riese

And One Which Is Currently
Being Excavated

By Darek And His Team.

Let's Check It Out.

In An Instant,
We're Deep Below The Surface,

Lost In Miles Of Passageways
Hand-Carved By Slave Labor.

Project Riese Was Made Possible

Through The Coerced Work
Of 13,000 Prisoners

Brought From The Nearby
Gross-Rosen Concentration Camp.

Koper: This Was A Connector, Uh,
Tunnel Between Two Main Tunnels.

-Uh-Huh.
-And, Uh, It Is Just Collapsed.

And Is There Anything
Beyond That?

Yeah. They Believe That, Uh,
Above Us, The --

There's Another Level
Of Tunnels.

But Nobody's
Been Up There Yet?

No.
They Have Not Explored It.

Interpreter:
We Are Below The Level
Where The Train Was Detected.

So If We Can Find An Access
Point To The Upper Tunnels,

We Might Be Able
To Find The Train.

Okay, Well...
Let's Keep Movin'.

Gates:
Deeper In The Complex,

Darek And His Team Have
Reestablished Electricity.

And For The First Time,
I'm Getting A Good Look

At Just How Massive
These Secret Tunnels Are.

Wow!

This Is So Cool.

Around The Corner, We Examine
What Was Once A Guard Station.

There Are Racks Of Helmets
And Armaments Still In Place,

Including
This Saucy Little Number.

What Are These Things?

Man: This Pipe Isn't
For Ventilation.

It Connects To A Room Above Us,
Which Has Its Own Mystery.

They Put A Camera On
These Pipes, And, Uh, They --

They Discovered
A 100% Closed Room,

Which -- Which Doesn't
Have Any Entrance.

So Weird.

A Pipe To Nowhere.

Yeah.

So If There's A Whole
'Nother Level Above Us,

Then They Either Had
To Have Another Entrance

From The Outside
That's Higher Up

Or Some Sort Of Staircases
On This Level That Go Up.

You Haven't Found
Any Of That?

Interpreter: There's Nothing
In This Area.

But I Found A New Set Of Tunnels
That Aren't On Any Charts.

It's Possible That They Might
Lead To The Upper Level.

Wow. Let's Go Check It Out.

Gates: We Make Our Way Back
To The Surface

To See Darek's Latest Find.

But Apparently, I Had No Idea
How Long We'd Been Down There.

And...Merry Christmas.

[ Instrumental "Jingle Bells"
Playing ]

It Was Literally, Like,
Clear Skies

When I Went Inside There.

And Now I'm In Santa's Workshop.

I Mean,
He Didn't Have A Howitzer,

But, You Know, Close Enough.

We Trek Through
The Freshly Falling Snow

And Up An Embankment
On The Side Of A Hill.

This Is The Entrance.

It's Here That Darek
Has Managed To Find

A Never-Before-Explored Level
Of The Underground Network.

Guys, This Is, Uh, This Is Not
A Tunnel. This Is A Hole.

We Have To Go Few Meters Down,
And There Is A Tunnel.

Okay. Here We Go.

We Carefully Clear Away
Leaves And Debris,

Which Have Choked The Opening.

Koper: Just Try To Not Touch,
Uh, Do Not Touch The Walls,

Because, You Know,
The Rock Is Only Rock.

So, Uh, On The Entrance,
It's -- It's, Uh...

It Can...

Fall And Kill You?

-Yeah.
-Got It. Okay. Got It.

Gates: I Slide Down
And Try To Shimmy My Way

Into Whatever's Down There.

It's Cramped, Filthy,

And Infested
With Creepy-Crawlies.

[ Whispers ]
Oh, Lots Of Spiders!

In Other Words,
It's Par For The Course.

♪♪

Wow!

This Has A Very Different Feel
Than The Other Tunnels.

Much Scarier, Actually.

Deeper Inside, The Conditions
Continue To Deteriorate.

Oh, God.

These Passages Aren't
Just Falling Apart.

They're Drowning.

It's Hard To Describe Exactly
What This Place Feels Like,

But Easiest Description
Is It Feels Dangerous.

These Are Obviously
Much More Raw.

You Can Just See Bits
Of, You Know, Framing

And Bits Of Beams
That Have Just Rotted Away.

There Are Endless
Side Tunnels Here,

And My Primary Motivation
Is Not To Get Lost.

♪♪

Then, In A Nearby Passage,
We See Something Encouraging.

Oh, My Lord!

Look At That!

It's Been Over 70 Years
After War,

And You Can Still See The --
The Marks After Railway Tracks.

That's Something Else.
Wow.

Let's See What
We Can Find Down Here.

A Train Once
Rolled Through Here.

And I'm Hoping That,
Though The Rails Are Gone,

Perhaps The Cargo Remains.

We Don't Get Far, Though,
Before We're Reminded That

In These Tunnels,
Hope Is Hard To Come By.

Oh, No!

♪♪

♪♪

Gates:
I'm Investigating The Story

Of A Legendary Train
Full Of Nazi Gold

In An Uncharted Tunnel System
In Poland.

Even Accounting For The Fact
That We're Underground,

Things Are Not Looking Sunny.

Oh, No!

Whoa!

Oh, My Lord!

The Tunnel's Supports
Have Completely Collapsed Ahead.

Just Absolutely...
Flaking Apart.

And That's What Was
Holding Up The Ceiling.

Do You Think It's Safe?

Middle Safe, Maybe,
Let's Say.

Middle Safe.

We Walk Forward Very Carefully
Through The Middle-Safe Tunnel,

Which Feels Middle Crazy To Me.

Guys, Very, Very Cautious
In Here.

I Can't Believe This Place.
I Really Can't.

I've Never Seen
A Place Like This.

This Is Some Goonie [Bleep]
Right Here.

Beyond The Rotted Timbers
And The Groaning Walls,

There Is Only A Dead End.

Looks Flooded Out.

The Tracks Have Been Washed Away

And, With Them,
The Truth About The Train.

Interpreter:
For Us, These Tunnels Are
A Story That Needs To Be Told.

We Have Tools Used By Workers

And Hundreds Of Other Artifacts
From The War.

These Things May Not
Be Valuable, Uh,

In Terms Of Money,
But It's --

It's Really Valuable
In -- In Terms Of History.

Right.

I Know Everybody's So Excited
About This Golden Train,

Which May Or May Not
Even Be There.

But, Uh, This Is
The Real Deal.

These Tunnel Complexes,
We Know These Are Here.

And You Know
There's More Of Them.

So There Really Is A Mystery
Here That Really Needs Solving.

And It Is --
It Is Very Important Stuff.

It's Great Work. Yeah.

Okay, Boys,
Let's Head For The Surface.

Gates: With Nowhere Else To
Look, We Climb Back To The Light

And Into The Frigid
But Stunning Embrace Of Winter.

♪♪

The Question Remains,
Does The Train Of Gold Exist?

To Me, It Seems Unlikely.

The Supposed Radar Hit
Is Still Inconclusive.

And The Story Is
Based More On Hearsay

Than Documented Facts.

What Is Undeniably Real, Though,
Is The Shadowy Project Riese

And Its Endless Miles Of Tunnels
That Have Never,

And Maybe Will Never,
Be Fully Explored.

We're Fortunate
That Dedicated Researchers

And Daring Explorers
Are Ensuring That Project Riese

And The Dark Truth
Behind Its Legend

Will Never Be Lost From History.

Of Course, Trains And Tunnels
Weren't The Only Places

The Nazis Stashed
Their Stolen Loot.

To Investigate A New Lead
In An Epic Mystery

From The Closing Days
Of World War Ii,

I'm Flying Back To Munich.

And From There,
I'm On My Way To Austria.

I'm Just Hopping
Across The Border Here,

So I Forego The Trains
And Pick Up Some Wheels.

But This Time
I'm Choosing My Ride.

[ Engine Revving ]

The Porsche 911 Carrera.

Step Aside, Vin Diesel.

It's Time For
The Fast And The Curious.

♪ I'm Ridin' Down
A One-Way Highway ♪

♪ I Know I Gotta Get Up
To 210, Yeah ♪

♪ Riding Down
A One-Way Highway ♪

Years And Years Of Driving
Only Crappy Vehicles

Around The World.

No Longer.

This Is The Autobahn,

Also Known As Hitler's
One Good Idea.

It's 8,000 Miles

Of The Fastest Pavement
East Of Talladega.

There's No Enforced Speed Limit,

Yet The Fatal Accident Rate Is
About Half That Of The U.S.

In Other Words,
Punch It, Chewie.

[ Beep ]

[ Laughs ]

♪ Riding Down
A One-Way Highway ♪

♪ Yeah, Yeah, Yeah ♪

Let Me Just Drop Outta
Hyperspeed Here.

Okay.

Uh, I Don't Know Where We Are.
I Assume Deep In The Future.

♪♪

Before The Porsche
Breaks A Sweat,

I've Crossed Into Austria.

Don't Worry If You Missed
The Border Sign.

The German Army
Didn't See It Either.

Austria Was The First Country

That Hitler Annexed
In A 1938 Invasion

That Began The Nazis' Expansion
Into Europe.

I'm Only A Couple Of Hours
From Munich,

And The Road Rises To Enter
The Austrian Alps.

Here Is Some Of The Most
Gorgeous Scenery On The Planet.

But These Mountains Are
Also A Place Of Secrets.

Welcome To Austria's
Alpine Lake District.

Absolutely Stunning.

It's Easy To See Why This Place
Has Been A Popular Retreat

For Hundreds Of Years.

But In The Waning Days
Of World War Ii,

This Region Took On
A Much More Sinister Purpose.

Many Of The Nazi Elite,

Seeing That The Allies
Were Advancing,

Used Some Of The 75 Lakes
In This Region

To Hide Untold Treasures.

And Those Treasures
Are Now Being Found,

Which Has Earned This Region
A New Nickname --

The Devil's Dustbin.

♪♪

I'm On My Way To Meet
A Search And Recovery Specialist

Who Believes He's On The Trail

Of One Of The Greatest
Missing Treasures

From World War Ii.

To Reach Him, I Drive To A Place
Called Lake Fuschl,

Which Makes The Word
"Picturesque" Seem Cheap.

♪♪

It's Here That One Of The Final
Dramas Of The War Played Out,

Involving A Nazi Loyalist
And A Fortune Lost,

Perhaps Soon To Be Found.

Joachim Von Ribbentrop
Joins The Nazis In 1932

And Quickly Rises
In The Party's Ranks,

Eventually Becoming
Minister Of Foreign Affairs.

His Wife, Annelies Henkell,
Is A Nazi Party Member Herself.

And The Power Couple
Frequently Hosts

Their Close Friend,
Adolf Hitler,

At Their Lavish Castle
On The Shores Of Lake Fuschl.

Legend Has It, As The Tide
Of The War Turns In 1945,

They Decide To Flee.

But First...

They Gather Up
Hitler's Most Prized Books

From His Private Library

And Pack Them
Into Watertight Crates.

Ribbentrop Also Fills Gas Cans

With Their Personal Fortune
Of Jewels And Gold.

Then He Rows The Containers
Out Onto The Lake

And Deposits Them Into The Water
For Safekeeping.

And As One Last
Spiteful Gesture,

Annelies Has All The Best Wine
And Champagne In The Castle

Tossed Into The Water As Well.

Better To Throw It Out
Than Let The Allies Enjoy It.

♪♪

All Of This Sounds Like
A Sensational Fiction,

Except That Recently,

Bottles Of Sparkling Wine
From Annelies Henkell's Vineyard

Have Been Found In The Lake.

Getting To The Bottom
Of This Mystery

May Require Going
To The Bottom Of The Lake.

But Like The Von Ribbentrops'
Story Itself,

The Deeper You Go,
The Darker It Gets.

♪♪

♪♪

Gates: I'm In The Austrian Alps
On The Edge Of Lake Fuschl,

Where Hitler's Foreign Minister

Is Believed
To Have Sank A Fortune

In Gold, Treasure, And Documents
Into The Depths.

Now, I'm Meeting Wolfgang Falch,

A Renowned
Search And Salvage Expert

Who Believes He's Got A Way
To Track Down The Lost Loot.

Wolfgang.
-Hey, Josh.

-Hey, How Are You?
-Good. How Are You Doing?

Good. Nice To Meet You.

-Nice To Meet You.
-So This Is Lake Fuschl.

-Lake Fuschl, Exactly, Yes.
-Uh-Huh.

We Know That In Some Of
These Other Lakes Around Here,

There Have Been
Finds, Right?

Yes, That's Correct.

How Extensively Has This Lake
Been Scanned?

Uh, Never Ever.

-Never?
-Uh, No. This Is The First Time.

And What I Am Going
To Try Today

Is The First Side Scan
Sonar Search Of This Lake.

This Is New Territory.

You Legitimately Do Not Know
What's Out There?

That's Ex-- Right. Yeah.

It Could Be The Find
Of The Century.

It Could Be Nothing At All.
-That's Right, Yeah.

I Mean,
That's Exploration, Right?

That's Exactly,
Exploration.

So Let's Go.
-Yeah. For Sure.

Gates: We Load All Of Wolfgang's
State-Of-The-Art Gear

Into His Boat And Then Push Off
To Start Our Search.

Wolfgang Is
A Seasoned Investigator,

Having Done Everything From
Body Recovery With The Police

To Finding Historic World War Ii
Relics In Nearby Lakes.

How Does He Do It?

With An Extremely Impressive
Array Of Technology.

Okay. How We Lookin'?

The System's Up
And Running.

Everything Is Working Properly.
We Are Ready To Go.

Great. Now What?
[ Chuckles ]

-We Drop The Fish.
-Drop The Fish. Okay.

Gates:
I Lower The Sonar Torpedo,

Also Called A Towfish,
Into The Lake.

Wolfgang's Plan Is To Run
Up And Down The Lake,

Letting The Sonar Identify
Anything Abnormal Beneath Us.

His Computer Then Tags
The Hits With Gps,

Allowing Us
To Investigate Further.

Okay, So...
Towfish In The Water.

Sonar Scan Underway.

Let's Start Searching.
-Let's Get It Going.

Gates: Fuschl,
Like Most Alpine Lakes,

Is Ridiculously Deep,

Over 200 Feet In Some Places.

But Nothing Is Beyond The Reach
Of Wolfgang's Sonar.

Oh, What's That?

That's, For Example,
A School Of Fish.

-That's A School Of Fish?
-Yes.

This Thing Is
Really Detailed.

-Yeah.
-You Can Even See --

You Can Even See
Individual Fish.

Exactly, Yes.

And They Are Not Bigger Than,
Let's Say, 10 Inches.

Gates: We Continue
To Scan The Lake,

Imaging What Appear To Be
Trees, Rocks, And Other Debris.

Then We Steer Toward
A Critical Landmark.

Well, There Is The Castle
Now, Josh.

Can You See It?

That's Ribbentrop's Castle?

That's Ribbentrop's
Castle, Yes.

♪♪

If This Story Is True,

That He, You Know,
Brought These Crates

Or These Barrels
Out Into The Lake,

Do You Think They Would've Been
Just Rolled Off The Shore

Or Actually Rowed Out Here
In A Boat Into Deeper Water?

It's More Likely
That They Took A Boat.

And I Think, You Know,
If I Would Do That,

Yeah, I Would Row It Out

But Not Too Far.
Right.

Gates: Wolfgang Believes
That The Von Ribbentrops

Would've Stashed Their Fortune
Somewhere More Shallow

So They Could Retrieve It Later.

♪♪

Okay, So...
Nothing Yet.

No.

We Scan The Waters
Near The Castle.

But Nothing Comes Up Until...

Ooh, What Is That?
Right There?

What's That Square Object?

Well, I Mean,
I Don't Know, Actually.

It Could Be Something.
It Could Be Crates.

It Could Be Just One Crate.

I Don't Know
Exactly What It Is.

But We Certainly Have
To Take A Closer Look.

Wolfgang Reveals The Second
Weapon In His Arsenal --

A Remote-Operated Vehicle,
Or R.O.V.

♪♪

R.O.V.'S Got Power...

-Do We Have The Lights?
-And Signal.

Gates: This Little Beauty Has
All The Bells And Whistles --

Powerful Headlights...

So Far, It Looks Good.

...Hd Cameras,
A Claw To Recover Relics...

Okay.

...And Its Own Sonar System.

Oh, And It Has One More
Unique Modification.

Just To Be Clear,
This Incredibly, Uh,

High Tech Thing
You've Got Running Here,

Uh, Is Being Powered
By A Playstation Controller?

Is That -- Is That Correct?
-That's Correct, Yeah.

Why Is It -- Why Is It Run
By A Playstation Controller?

Yeah, Well,
It Works Good, You Know?

And Whenever This, Uh,
Drops Into The Water,

You Just Buy A New One.

And It Costs $30
And Nothing More.

Can't Argue With That.

Gates: Wolfgang Must Be A Fan

Of The German Video Game
"Grand Theft Autobahn."

All Right,
R.O.V. Is Goin' In.

♪♪

Wow, Look At That!
That Is So Cool.

Now That We Have Eyes
In The Water,

Wolfgang Attempts To Guide
The R.O.V.

To The Hit We Got On The Sonar.

Okay, So It Should Be Just --
It Should Be Just Ahead Of Us.

Yep.

Okay.

Tethering Out.

And It Isn't Long
Before Lake Fuschl

Begins To Reveal Her Secrets.

-Here We Are.
-Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!

What Is That?

Probably A Boat.

It's A Boat!

-Yes.
-How [Bleep] Cool Is That?!

♪♪

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♪♪

Gates:
In The Depths Of Lake Fuschl

In The Austrian Alps,
A Remotely Operated Vehicle

Has Found
What Might Be A Major Clue

In The Search
For Stolen Nazi Plunder.

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
What Is That?

Probably A Boat.

It's A Boat!

-Yes.
-How [Bleep] Cool Is That?!

It's Certainly An Old Boat.

I Mean, Uh, You See
How Much Silt's In There?

-Yeah! Really Old.
-That's Really Old, Yeah.

That's At Least World War Ii
If Not Earlier.

Gates: If This Boat Did
Belong To The Ribbentrops,

It's Unfortunately Empty Inside.

All Right. Well...
-Too Bad.

Well, Let's -- Let's Keep
Scanning Around The Boat,

See If There's
Any Other Targets,

If Anything Was Thrown Off It
Before It Sank.

Uh, Yeah.

We'll Just Look Around The Area,
See If We Get Any Other Hits.

Gates: So We Send The R.O.V.
To Scan The Surrounding Bottom

For Any Sign
Of Additional Artifacts.

Okay, We Are Right In Front
Of The Castle Now.

So Let's See
What We've Got Here.

It's So Hard To See Down There
With All That Growth.

Yeah.

If You Get Anywhere
Near The Bottom, It's Just...

The Silt Just Takes Over.

Yep.

It's Kind Of Hard To Manage
With All The Weed Around Here.

And Can You Get
To Where Those Small Hits Are?

Yeah. I'm Almost There,
But...

Oh! Right There! Right There!
Back Up! Back Up!

-You See That?
-Okay. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Right There!
You See That Dark Thing?

I Can See It, Yes.
Let's Go Closer And Closer.

Wait, Can You Get Back To That?
There It Is!

-Yeah. Yes, There It Is.
-There It Is! You See That?

-Yes. Yes. Yes.
-What Is That?

-Well...
-It's Dark.

It's -- It's Dark,

But It Has A Kind
Of A Reflection On It And Silt.

You See?
The Silt On Top Of It,

So It Must Be Laying There
For Some Time.

-Let It Settle.
-Yeah. Yeah. No.

Wait. Wait. Wait.
I'm Stirring Up Silt.

That's A Bottle, Dude.

-That's A Bottle!
-It Really Looks Like It, Yeah.

That's A [Bleep] Bottle.

Can You See If
You Can Move Somethin'...

Can You Use The Claw
To Move It?

I'll -- I'll Try The Best...
I'll Try My Best Now.

It's Slippin' Off.

Okay, I Got It.Oh! Hold On, Okay?

-So See If You Can Rotate...
-Okay. Yep.

Around The Neck? Yeah?

Here We Go. Here We Go.

Now I'm Opening Up
The Gripper.

Uh-Huh.

And Now Let's See
If I Can Get It Underneath It.

And Then...
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

-Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
-Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!

And Then See
If You Can Close It.

Silt Again.
Okay, Good. Good.

Let's Close It Now.
We Got It.

And Pull Back?I'm Rotating It, Yeah. Yep. Yep.

That's A Champagne Bottle!

That Is A [Bleep]
Champagne Bottle!

That's A Great Bottle.
It's Unbelievable.

♪♪

Gates: Next Time
On "Expedition Unknown,"

The Search For
Stolen Nazi Gold Continues.

But My Big Breakthrough Could
Make Me A Casualty Of War.

And I Follow An Incredible Lead
On A Secret Laboratory

Tasked With Building
Hitler's Atomic Bomb.

We Are Talking
About The Largest

Underground Facility
Ever Built.

Gates:
What Will The Search Reveal?

And Can We Expose The Long-Lost
Secrets Of The Nazis?

Oh, My God.

♪♪