In the early 90s, a treasure-hunt book titled Sur la trace de la chouette d’or (or On The Trail Of The Golden Owl in English) was published by a man who went by the alias “Max Valentin”. He claimed to have hidden a golden owl statue in the French countryside and would give whoever found it one million Francs, which is approximately 992,216 dollars, as a reward.

So here’s a real-life version of the Pink Panther diamond (from the original film with Peter Sellers and not the Steve Martin remake). Weighing 137.27 carats, this special diamond originally came from India according to Reader’s Digest winding up in the hands of the Medici family before ending up with the Imperial Family of Austria.

Towards the end of WWII, this ship became the center of a messy situation where America wanted to send supplies to their POW in Japan. But in exchange, they had to let Japanese ships pass through America’s naval defenses without bombing them. So they attempted to sneak out several things to turn the war in their favor including their smartest people historical artifacts and other valuables that are now worth 5-10 billion dollars in value.

Originally discovered in 1795 according to the Huffington Post, this elusive treasure off the coast of Nova Scotia in Canada has grabbed the attention of treasure-hunters for centuries. It began when a teenage boy known as Daniel McGuinness was drawn to the island because he apparently saw lights and stumbled onto a hole.

Following the conquest of the Incan Empire in the Sixteenth Century, the Spaniards took the wealth they had accumulated and stored it in the city of Lima in Peru. This included a variety of jewels and religious statues as well as gold bars and silver ones all of which was valued to be about 12-60 million dollars at the time according to NOVA Online.

Apart from the Confederate Gold, Lake Michigan is home to another apparent treasure that resides near Poverty Island where a dismal lighthouse resides. However, there are multiple stories surrounding this treasure in terms of its origin ranging from belonging to James Strang,