Season 2 of Weird World Adventures has just started taking you around the world, from Transylvania to Iceland, New Orleans to the Great Smoky Mountains, and Malorie Mackey and Michael Maldonado are already teasing what comes next. Malorie, the host, journalist, and Modern Myth Hunter has officially announced that Weird World Adventures Season 3 is in the works, and the early glimpses she’s shared suggest that the show is about to reach its most ambitious and atmospheric season yet.
If Season 2 proved that Weird World Adventures could go global without losing its soul, Season 3 looks set to go even deeper into the mythology, the mystery, and, in at least one case, literally underground.
Malorie has teased a handful of episodes so far, and every single one of them sounds like required viewing.
First: Paris. And not just any Paris, the Paris that exists beneath the surface, in shadow, and in story. Malorie has confirmed two separate episodes filming in Paris, each operating on a completely different frequency. The first will take her to the Opéra Garnier, the stunning opera house that inspired Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera, for a full deconstruction of the novel and the real history threaded through it. Few buildings in the world carry as much mythology per square foot as the Palais Garnier, and Malorie’s background in folklore and mythology makes her precisely the right guide to pull apart what’s legend, what’s history, and what that story has meant to the people who’ve told it across more than a century. For anyone who has ever wanted to understand why that particular ghost story has refused to die, this episode sounds like the definitive treatment.
The second episode goes in a very different direction — downward. Malorie is heading into the Catacombs of Paris, the vast network of underground tunnels that holds the remains of millions and has captured the imagination of explorers, writers, and the morbidly curious for centuries. It’s a fitting follow-up to Season 2’s “Memento Mori: Death and Innovation” episode, which explored how different cultures process mortality, and promises to be one of the most visually striking and atmospherically intense episodes the show has ever produced.
Then there’s Japan, and the Japan episodes alone could justify an entire season. Malorie has teased a search for the Honjo Masamune — one of the most legendary swords in history, crafted by the master swordsmith Masamune and considered a national treasure of Japan, the blade went missing at the end of World War II and has never been officially recovered. It is one of the great unsolved disappearances in the world of historical artifacts, and watching Malorie apply her fieldwork methodology and skeptical framework to that hunt is going to make for extraordinary television.
Also confirmed for Japan: a visit to Nagoro, the remote mountain village in Shikoku where artist Tsukimi Ayano has spent decades replacing the village’s dwindling human population with life-size handmade dolls. What began as a tribute to her late father has grown into something genuinely haunting: hundreds of dolls seated in doorways, tending fields, waiting at bus stops where no buses come anymore. It’s the kind of place that exists at the exact intersection of folk art, grief, memory, and the uncanny that Weird World Adventures was built to explore.
And finally: the Studio Ghibli Museum in Mitaka. For a show rooted in the belief that mythology and storytelling are living, evolving forces, a visit to the home of Hayao Miyazaki’s work is a deeply fitting choice. The museum is one of the most immersive and beloved cultural destinations in the world, and Malorie exploring it through the lens of folklore, narrative, and the enduring power of mythological imagination promises to be one of the warmest episodes the show has ever produced.
Beyond the travel episodes, Malorie has also teased a conceptual episode deconstructing the history of madness over the centuries, examining how different eras and cultures have defined, feared, institutionalized, and mythologized mental illness. It’s the kind of episode that speaks to the show’s growing willingness to tackle ideas as adventurously as it tackles destinations.
Season 2 of Weird World Adventures proved that this show can compete with anything on television when it comes to genuine curiosity, production quality, and the rare ability to make viewers feel like the world is both stranger and more wonderful than they realized. If these Season 3 teases are any indication, the best is still ahead.
Weird World Adventures Season 2 is streaming now — free internationally on Amazon Prime, free on Roku via the Fawesome app, and available for purchase on Amazon Prime US. Stay tuned to MaloriesAdventures.com and follow Malorie on social for Season 3 updates as they come.
