10 Unclaimed Treasures That Would Make You Filthy Rich

10. The Amber Room

Modern Value: $170 Million Every good treasure story has one thing in common. At some point, in some way, the Nazis managed to find the treasure and hide it, leaving the location known only as "somewhere in europe" during their spate of destruction and theft in the latter years of WW2. This is no different, as the treasure originally came from Germany. The image above is of the current exact replica of the original Amber Room in Russia, but the original was a room made entirely of purest amber, inlaid in solid gold and polished mirrors. It was designed by Andreas Schluter between 1701 and 1709 and built in the Charlottenburg Palace in Prussia by Gottfried Wolfram of Denmark. Ungrateful king that he was, the king of Prussia Friedrich Wilhelm I gifted the room to Tsar Peter The Great of Russia to seal an alliance, and the room was rebuilt in the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, where it was acknowledged as priceless. Unfortunately, invading Nazi soldiers discovered the room in 1941 and dismantled the room, sending it to Konigsberg Castle for display. Officially, the Nazi regime claimed the room was destroyed by an allied bombing raid in 1943, but there is significant evidence from Nazi footsoldiers who claimed shortly after the war that the room was removed and hidden with other stolen treasures, although they were not told where. Many have claimed to have found the room, but no one has ever produced any of the panels, amber, gold or mirrors. If it were found, a low estimate of $170,000,000 would be waiting for the discoverer. Better fetch your shovel.