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Q: Are they still making episodes of "Cities of the Underworld"?

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Adam Thomlison / TV Media

No, but host Don Wildman is still sticking his nose into places most people don't get to see -- it's sort of become his thing.

It started for him on the Travel Channel series "Weird Travels," on which he served as a narrator and host. In 2007, a year after "Weird Travels" ended, he launched "Cities of the Underworld," the History documentary series that saw him delve into the tunnels, caverns and occasionally entire other cities that lie beneath the places we think we know.

That series ran for three seasons, ending in 2009 with a look underneath the notorious Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay.

However, Wildman's curiosity has only gotten stronger since, it seems, as he now hosts not one but three similar docu-series.

The longest running of them is "Mysteries at the Museum," which premiered in 2010 and has brought him back to the Travel Channel. He goes behind the scenes at famous museums to investigate the stories behind some of their artifacts.

Indeed, the Travel Channel has now gone fully into the Don Wildman business, tapping his hosting and nosing-around skills for two other shows: "Monumental Mysteries" (about mysteries related to America's greatest monuments) and a more broad-based series of specials titled "Greatest Mysteries." Both shows premiered in 2013.

Wildman's reputation as a man of historical mystery has become such that the industry magazine "Hotel & Resort Insider" referred to him as "the real life Indiana Jones."

 

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