Season 1
Episode Guide
Superlatives!
S1
E2
Sep 10, 2007
Tom Cavanagh is on a mission: to discover what it means to be the best, the tiniest, the coldest, and the most misunderstood. Superlatives time!
No Place Like Home
S1
E3
Sep 18, 2007
Tom Cavanagh unravels the idea of "Home Sweet Home" at the National Air and Space Museum, National Museum of the American Indian, and even in some sand.
Beauty
S1
E4
Sep 25, 2007
Three Smithsonian curators offer their perspectives on the meaning of true beauty as it applies to their work with advertising, orchids, and ants.
Firsts
S1
E5
Nov 6, 2007
Enter the vaults of the National Museum of American History and the National Air and Space Museum and discover earth-shattering firsts.
Life after Death
S1
E6
Nov 13, 2007
The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, the National Museum of Natural History, and the National Postal Museum all hold clues to the afterlife.
Random?
S1
E7
Nov 20, 2007
Tom Cavanagh dives into the heart of the world's largest museum complex, amidst more than 136 million objects, to show us that breadth doesn't equal randomness.