Weird World Adventures Season 2 is barely settled into the streaming landscape, and Malorie Mackey is already mapping out what comes next. The host, journalist, and Modern Myth Hunter has officially announced that Season 3 is in production — and the destinations and concepts she’s teasing are shaping up to make this the most layered and atmospheric season the show has attempted.
For anyone who has been following along: Season 2 just wrapped a 12-episode run on Amazon Prime and Roku via the Fawesome app, spanning everything from Transylvanian castles to Icelandic volcanoes, Salem’s Witch Trial history to the Great Smoky Mountains. It earned the show its highest-ever IMDb rating — a perfect 10/10 for the Smoky Mountains Part 1 — and made clear that Weird World Adventures has real ambitions. Season 3 looks intent on exceeding them.
Two Sides of Paris
Malorie has confirmed two Paris episodes for Season 3, and they couldn’t be more different from each other. The first centers on the Opéra Garnier, the stunning 19th-century opera house that inspired Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera — a building so steeped in mythology, architectural drama, and literary history that it practically demands the Weird World Adventures treatment. Malorie’s background in folklore and mythology positions her perfectly to separate fact from legend and trace why that particular ghost story has refused to fade for more than a century.
The second episode heads underground. Malorie is filming in the Catacombs of Paris — the vast network of tunnels beneath the city holding the remains of millions, which has fascinated explorers and storytellers for centuries. It’s a natural thematic companion to Season 2’s Memento Mori: Death and Innovation episode, and promises some of the most visually striking footage the show has ever captured.
Japan: Three Episodes, Three Completely Different Worlds
The Japan slate alone could anchor a full season. Malorie has teased three separate episodes, each pulling in a different direction.
The first follows the search for the Honjo Masamune — a blade crafted by the legendary swordsmith Masamune, considered a national treasure of Japan, and missing since the end of World War II. It remains one of the great unsolved disappearances in the history of artifacts, and watching Malorie bring her fieldwork methodology and skeptical framework to that hunt is going to make for compelling television.
The second takes her to Nagoro, a remote mountain village in Shikoku where artist Tsukimi Ayano has spent decades creating life-size handmade dolls to replace the village’s dwindling human population. Hundreds of dolls now sit in doorways, tend fields, and wait at bus stops throughout the village — a project that began as a personal tribute and has grown into something genuinely haunting and deeply moving. It is exactly the kind of place this show was made to explore.
The third Japan episode visits the Studio Ghibli Museum in Mitaka — and for a series rooted in the belief that mythology and storytelling are living, evolving forces, a deep dive into the world Hayao Miyazaki built is a natural and deeply fitting choice.
An Episode About Madness
Beyond the travel episodes, Malorie has also teased a conceptual episode tracing the history of madness across centuries — examining how different eras and cultures have defined, feared, institutionalized, and mythologized mental illness. It speaks to how much the show has grown: willing now to treat ideas as adventurously as it treats destinations.
The Road Ahead
Season 2 of Weird World Adventures proved the show belongs in any conversation about the best travel and adventure content currently streaming. Season 3, based on everything announced so far, is building toward something even more ambitious.
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. Follow Malorie at MaloriesAdventures.com for Season 3 updates as they come.
