Travel Channel Unearths History's 'Lost Secrets' With Founder of L.A.'s Wende Museum (Exclusive)

Exclusive: travelchannel unearths History's 'Lost Secrets' with founder of L.A.'s Wende Museum

by examining "unusual objects that hold hidden pasts and secret histories."

The series follows historian Justin Jampol, founder and executive director of L.A.'s Wende Museum, as he travels around the world to unlock the mysteries of the past held within recently discovered items found among family relics, private collections and museum displays. These items reveal covert histories that have unexpectedly and unknowingly changed the world we live in.

Jampol will use state-of-the-art scientific testing in his investigations to reveal how these objects may be the key to real truths behind pivotal moments in history that we thought we already knew and how that can aid in our understanding of the present."Justin is an avid historian, and his passion for preserving the integrity of our history is the driving force behind ," said Matthew Butler, general manager at Travel Channel.

For more than 20 years, Jampol, who makes a living out of distinguishing trash from treasure, has been scouring the earth and collecting hidden relics to bring back to the Wende Museum, a top artifact museum in Culver City, Calif. Throughout his journeys, Jampol discovered that people across the world are holding on to valuable, historical items, many not realizing their worth or understanding their significance.

In the premiere episode, Jampol gains access to recently uncovered documents from the archive of infamous Nazi Heinrich Himmler, which includes astrological wheels for Churchill, Stalin and Hitler himself. Jampol sets out to investigate the Nazi leadership's deep fanatical belief in the supernatural and how there may have been a plot to harness these mythical forces to win WWII.

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