25 Most Expensive Things In The World

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Picture: Rhein II

Rhein IIPrice: $4 million

Although Andreas Gursky is famous for his colorful landscapes, this one of the Rhein river in Germany is little more than green and grey.

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Sculpture: L’Homme qui marche (Walking Man)

L’Homme qui marchePrice: $104.3 million

As the most expensive piece of art to ever sell at auction, the Walking Man just edged out the former title holder, Pablo Picasso’s Boy with a Pipe.

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Ring: Chopard Blue Diamond

Chopard Blue DiamondPrice: $16.26 million

There are very few more efficient ways of implicitly begging people to rob you than wearing a $16 million ring on your finger.

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Yacht: History Supreme

History SupremePrice: $4.8 billion

It almost hurts doesn’t it? Made with over 100,000 kg of gold and decorated with everything from T-Rex bones to miniature meteorites this unfortunate case of what-the-heck-do-I-do-with-5-billion-dollars is owned by an anonymous Malaysian businessman, probably Robert Kuok.

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Feather: Extinct Huia Bird

Extinct Huia BirdPrice: $8,000

Just a single feather from the extinct Huia bird went for almost $10,000 at an auction in New Zealand.

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Jeans: Spin Jean by Damien Hirst

Spin Jean by Daniel HirstPrice: $27,000

With only 8 instances of this multicolored mess available in the world, hipsters everywhere should be foaming at the lips to get their hands…or rather their legs…on a pair.

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Cellphone: iPhone 3GS Supreme Rose by Stuart Hughes

iPhone 3GS Supreme Rose by Stuart HughesPrice: $2.97 million

If you think you have trouble keeping track of your phone in crowded places then just imagine owning this pricey little gadget.

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Domain Name: Insure.com

Insure.comPrice: $16 million

When Quinstreet, the California based marketing firm, bought insure.com in 2009 they went down in the Guinness Book of World Records for owning the most expensive domain name ever.

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Drawing: Raphael’s Head of a Muse

Raphael’s Head of a MusePrice: $47.9 million

Although it was estimated to sell at only $20 million it ended up going for over twice that at a 2009 auction by Christie’s London

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Parking Spot: Manhattan

Manhattan's most expensive parking spotPrice: $1 million

Located in eight-story luxury condominium building at 66 E. 11th St in downtown Manhattan, this million dollar parking spot is worth more than 6 times the national price of a single family home.

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Comments

  1. fukkk says:

    apart the parking, people with no culture buy stupid things

  2. Dave says:

    ok. you didn’t have any of the most expensive items in the world. For example, the international space station cost $150B. there are many bombs that cost more than almost all the items in this list. There are battleships that cost many times more than the most expensive item on this list. There are multi-billion dollar jet fighters.

    if you are going to have a list that calls itself “the 25 most expensive things in the world,” you have to go by shear numbers, not categories. you may call this list something like “some very expensive versions of misc things,” but you can’t call something worth only a thousand dollars like those cigars “the most expensive THING”… maybe the most expensive CIGAR… i’ll at least give you that, perhaps.

    • Farthammer says:

      Space station’s in space
      It’s not really part of our world anymore
      I’d say that point is invalid, but it is a hefty price for something we just sort of put loads of money into because we got excited and then like fired it into space with no return plan. I mean, I don’t even know really.
      I like space

  3. ok..... says:

    wow…

  4. joe says:

    In the video it said the Rhine II was 2 billion but on the list it said 4 million

  5. 9nmyg75t6rd not my real name lololololl says:

    if you guys like donating so much, why dont you get rich yourselves and donate? You’re just complaining about other people while you yourselves aren’t even trying to donate lots of money.

  6. larry foster says:

    Wonder how many starving children were taking there last breath from a lack of food when these high dollar items were being bought. With this kinda money think about all the food that could be sent all over the world to help so many helpless inocent children. How could one even enjoy such a high dollar item with that in mind

    • Raymond Steve says:

      C’mon Lar, if you had serious amounts of kiss my arse money you wouldn’t splash out on the odd gift to yourself?
      I’m all about that boat, T-Rex bones and meteorites!
      METEORITES LARRY!
      You could have them all…..

  7. Tony Smith says:

    I HAVE LOST FAITH IN ALL HUMANITY!!!

  8. Oluwakemi says:

    Dis is absolutely ridiculous, I can’t believe my eyes. I pray one day God will open the eyes of our understanding.
    Hey! SNOBBYRICHKID301, pls learn how to be more reasonable and polite

  9. y.govardhan reddy says:

    it is awesom but madness,nothing will come come with you in after life,if we do any good thing’s
    the name of the person or a company will remain’s.sorry to tell this,totally everybody are
    in colers of dream.

  10. Andrew Tanner says:

    Anti- matter is more expensive up to 5 Billion per gram -__-

  11. Chris says:

    Guys think about it if you had billions of dollars you wouldnt be giving charity most of your money -_-
    and im pretty sure most of the people do donate some of there money to charity then buy expensive shit xD

  12. Stephon Norbury says:

    These item`s are so bloody ridiculous,as are the morons that buy them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  13. ted speaks says:

    quack people just quack ¤

  14. Bill Gates says:

    The rich get richer and the poor get poorer,hopefully humanity will wake up one day.

  15. anon says:

    most these people have nothing else to spend their money on, its not likely there going to give millions away to charity…so what else can they spend it on but over priced novelty items?

  16. maria says:

    that painting OMG !! those Levis pants AND the PARKING SPOT !!! people are staaving out there ,this is ridiculous and waay too Unfair ! even if i had all the money in the world i wouldve never considered buying these stupid stuff !!

  17. Chuck Norris says:

    I hate everyone and everything

  18. A.J. says:

    I think that the painting is way too ridiculous. A five year old boy could’ve done that! Heck, if paintings like that are sold for over a million dollars, then I could be rich! Look out kindergarteners, you got a lot coming for you.

  19. Cmore weiner says:

    Load of trololololololololololololololololololololololololo

    • derp says:

      Piano made out of crystal cant produce the best voice…stupid expensive thing. Tv with golden frame is not good as well…as the bling is distraction from the program itself. Well, actually everything is not that worth it if you think about it.

  20. Dominic says:

    These items are bloody ridiculous

  21. mathew omavuanore says:

    incredible

  22. Marlo says:

    The Rhine II photograph is not even close to being worth $2 billion. Try $2 million.

    Still not cheap.

  23. EssDee says:

    Love your comments!! Most other similar lists would have “wow!”, you have “yuck”!!!
    Say I take a 10-dollar widget, use a few cents’ worth of superglue to stick the Kohinoor, Cullinan, and Hope diamonds (just for a moment assume that Her Majesty the Queen lends me these baubles). Voila!! It becomes the most expensive widget!!! Funny, isn’t it, how you can obscenely inflate the cost of something with comparatively very little intrinsic value? Like the watch, the telly, the yatch, and the phone above!
    Or tragic, when you think of the starving kids.

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