该剧集利用粉丝写给名人的信件，回顾这些极具影响力的人的生活。 出镜的名人包括奥普拉·温弗瑞、格洛丽亚·斯泰纳姆、珍·古道尔、斯派克·李、林-曼努尔·米兰达、斯蒂夫·旺达、亚历山德拉·莱斯曼、雅拉·沙希迪等。
“休·赫夫纳故事”是将档案片段，访谈和电影重现相结合的故事，讲述了“花花公子”杂志的魅力创始人休·赫夫纳（Hugh Hefner）及其对全球文化和历史的影响。 美国花花公子从战后的美国开始，并于在1953年推出“花花公子”杂志，以及未来六十年的赫夫纳的生活和事业。 当他建立他的帝国时，赫夫纳成为保守派运动的社会正义倡导者和目标，与联邦调查局和埃德加·胡佛战斗，同时成为一个直言不讳的维权人士。
Episode 1 - Ark of the Covenant The hunt for the truth about the most famous lost treasure of them all. Did the Ark of the Covenant really exist? What it did look like? What was the power that it was said to hold? And what happened to it? Where is it now? Episode 2 - Bust of Nefertiti The extraordinary story behind one of the most famous images from the ancient world. Who was Queen Nefertiti? Who made the blue-crowned bust which turned her into a modern icon? Could the Nefertiti bust be a fake? Episode 3 - Great Pyramid Armed with a four and a half thousand year old diary, and a radical new approach. Engineer Peter James and leading archaeologist Mark Lehner set out to solve Ancient Egypt’s greatest mystery. How was the Great Pyramid built? Episode 4 - Easter Island Heads Unlocking the mysteries of the most recognizable statues on earth. How were the thousand giant stone heads of Easter Island made, and why? Why did the Islanders topple all of them, except one? Episode 5 - Blackbeard's Ship Off the coast of North Carolina, nautical archaeologists, historians and scientists study the artifacts of a 300 year old shipwreck. Positively identified as Blackbeard’s flagship, our investigators set about to uncover what the ship’s remains can tell us about history’s most notorious pirate. Episode 6 - Spear of Destiny In a search that spans four countries and 20 centuries, we investigate the legend of the Spear of Destiny. First mentioned in the New Testament, the spear is said to have pierced the side of Jesus. Believed to have special powers, kings and conquerors from Charlemagne to Hitler tried to possess it.
