The Rarest Of Rare Awesome Things Found On Earth

#1 Bismuth Crystals

Found all over the world, Bismuth is a chemical element which is 86% as dense as lead. It is a brittle metal with a silvery white color when freshly produced, but is often seen in the air with a pink tinge owing to surface oxidation. This marvel of nature is found in a series of geometrical lines and figures that resemble something of a sci-fi movie. But trust me its real! Unbelievable right?

#2 Antikythera Mechanism

The world’s oldest computer predates Bill Gates only by about 2,000 years. In fact, the absolutely mind-boggling Antikythera Mechanism – a corroded clocklike object found among the ruins of a sunken ship – may prove that advanced scientific technology existed far earlier than we ever thought possible. Scientists have since discovered that this mysterious Greek invention predicted solar eclipses, organized the calendar in four-year cycles, and may well be linked to renowned astrologer and engineer Archimedes. Though no other such mechanisms have ever been found, experts believe that many more made around the same time in 100 B.C.E. once existed.

#3 The Baigong Pipes

“Alien toilet found in China”. This is just one of many absurd headlines seen on the internet concerning the undoubtedly bizarre Baigong Pipes, rusty red iron pipes that lead into a pyramid atop Mount Baigong from a nearby salt water lake. What’s so strange about the pipes? Well, for one thing, they’re in an area that is completely inhospitable to man – no civilization is ever known to have lived there. They’re uniform in size and seem to have been created in an intentional pattern. No clear explanation exists for the presence of these pipes, and scientists don’t seem to agree on whether they could be natural occurrences.

#4 The Boomerang Nebula

Pack a jacket before taking the 5,000 light-year trip to the Boomerang Nebula: This is the coldest thing in the universe.

Inside this cloud of gas and dust cast off from a dying sun-sized star, the mercury rises to just -458 degrees Fahrenheit. The cloud is expanding at around 367,000 miles per hour, or 10 times as fast as the fastest man-made object in the universe, the New Horizons spacecraft, is traveling.

That expansion chills the nebula's gas in the same way that ballooning tetrafluoromethane cools your refrigerator.

#5 10 million dollars in gold coins

A couple from the Sierra Nevada, California experienced what all treasure hunters dream about. When walking their dog on their property, they saw a top of a rusty canister poking out of the ground. The canister contained a bunch of gold discs and they took it home. They found out the discs were well preserved $20 gold coins dating back to 1890s.They hurried back to the location of their find and discovered a total of eight cans containing 1,427 coins with a face value of $27,980. Coin dealer Don Kagin and numismatist David McCarthy helped them restore the coins and evaluate them. The hoard of coins was estimated to be worth about 10 million dollars.

#6 Ancient Stone

When an amateur historian Stephen Davis from England was researching the history of his own home, he came across a reference to an ancient stone that was thought to have marked a burial plot from the Bronze Age dating back to about 2,500 B.C. According to the description found in the historical documents, Davis began to search for the stone. After some time, he really found the stone in his backyard, completely covered with ivy. At the time of the find, the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England was expected to pronounce the stone a “scheduled ancient monument.”

#7 Church bells

In 2013, a man from Czech Republic was digging up his backyard to install some pipes when he stumbled across unusual metal objects. After excavation, he found out it was 2 large church bells about 400 years old. Later, it turned out that the bells were stolen 11 years earlier from a nearby church. The thief who buried them might have attempted to hide them but for some reason, didn’t get to retrieve them.

#8 Loaded machine gun

Earlier this year, a man from northeast Calgary, Canada made a disturbing discovery in his backyard. Between his garage and the fence, he found a plastic bag containing a pillowcase. When he looked inside, to his surprise, there was a fully-loaded machine gun along with a cell phone. How the gun ended up in his backyard or who it belonged to is still not clear.

#9 1700's Cemetery

When Vincent Marcello from New Orleans, Louisiana decided to dig a plot in his backyard for a swimming pool, he ended up discovering a historic cemetery that dates back to the 1700s.The workers unearthed 13 caskets with human remains. However, it was not the first time bodies have been discovered underground in the area – in 1984, 36 corpses were found when an apartment complex was being built.

#10 A trove of Nazi memorabilia hidden in a Buenos Aires home

Just outside Buenos Aires, in a hidden room in a suburban home, a secret collection of 75 Nazi artifacts has been uncovered by police. The memorabilia was believed to be owned by high-ranking Nazi officials during WWII, further proving their existence in South America following that war.

The trove includes a bust relief portrait of Adolf Hitler, a statue of an eagle above a swastika, a knife, a box of children's harmonicas and puzzles, an hourglass, a medical device that is used to measure the size of a person's head, and a World War II German army mortar aiming device. There is also a photo negative of Hitler holding a magnifying glass which is also in the collection.

All of the Nazi memorabilia is believed to be original. Argentine Security Minister Patricia Bullrich said she'll ask to have the items donated to the Holocaust Museum of Buenos Aires.

#11 Unworn 124-year-old Levi's are found in an Arizona trunk

Arizona resident Jock Taylor inherited Levi's that sat in an old family trunk for almost a century. Judging from their size (W: 44, L: 37), they probably belonged to his great-great-grandfather, Solomon Warner, an Arizona pioneer from the 1800s.

Brit Eaton, a dealer in old jeans who searches abandoned mines for inventory, says they are worth a fortune—about $80,000. “Vintage denim can be worth thousands,” Eaton says. “Finding Levi's pre-1900 is a massive rarity. That's the Holy Grail.”

The six-foot-six Warner left his upstate New York home and headed west in the 1830's. He landed in Tucson and sold goods for a living, before passing away in 1899. Through the generations, his descendants handed down the wooden heirloom trunk that bears his name.

#12 A rare Steinway baby grand piano found in an Australian garbage dump

A valuable Steinway baby grand piano, worth $80,000, has been found in a Western Australia dump.

Musician Wil Thomas was "shocked and stupefied" when he came across the still working instrument while dumping his garden waste at the Broome site. It had been mistakenly thrown out during by the Cable Beach Club nearby.

Upon discovering the hidden treasure, Thomas made a call to a fellow Steinway owner to help him rescue the valuable instrument. It took three men to load it onto a truck and take it to his home where it will be lovingly restored.

#13 A Babe Ruth baseball glove found in....Norway!

The 75-year-old owner of an apartment building in Trondheim, Norway was cleaning out his storage unit when he happened upon a dusty old chest which had remained closed for possibly as long as a century. Inside was an assortment of pristine, high-end sporting goods, including extremely valuable and rare baseball gloves, baseballs, and an inflatable chest protector, all circa 1920.

The artifacts were manufactured by Draper and Maynard, a top athletic supply company based in New Hampshire from about the 1880s to the 1930s. At its peak, D&M boasted that 80 percent of big leaguers were using its baseball gloves.

The Ruth D&M glove fetched $11,600 at auction, the highest price of anything in the find.

#14 Hundreds of packs of rare, unopened baseball cards in a Tennessee attic

A Tennessee man made the ultimate baseball card find—hundreds of packs of unopened and forgotten about cards from the 1940s, '50s, and '60s, and they could sell for millions.

The anonymous lucky guy found the cards in his aunt's attic after his uncle passed away. His deceased relative owned a candy company that had produced cards for TV shows, and at some point, he bought the sports cards for research and development.

The haul included boxes of 1959 Fleer Ted Williams, Topps and Fleer football cards from the early 1960s, and 1961 Fleer basketball cards, but nothing compared to the crown jewel of the find—a box of 1948 Bowman baseball cards with 19 of the 24 packs unopened. The cards, which were stashed away in an old Stroh's beer box, are now being called “The Beer Box Find.”

Bowmans was the first mainstream company to relaunch after World War II shut down the production of sports cards. The 1948 set was the first of its kind, and it featured the rookie cards of Stan Musial, Yogi Berra, Ralph Kiner, Phil Rizzuto, Warren Spahn, and Red Schoendienst. The set is so valuable that a beat-up wrapper of one pack is on sale for $3,999.99 on eBay.

One unopened box—and this guy has several—could fetch $500,000 on its own

#15 Kangaroo Joey Inside the Pouch (Australia)

This rare image comes from the pouch of a mother kangaroo, where a kangaroo joey grows in peace. Baby kangaroos after being born are transferred to the pouches of their mothers for completion of their growth. FYI: Female kangaroos can determine the sex of their offspring. They can even delay gestation when environmental factors are likely to diminish the chance of young surviving.

#16 The Giant Stone Spheres of Costa Rica

They appear to be flawlessly round, ranging in size from just a few centimeters to over 6.6 feet in diameter, and are found all over the Diquis Delta and Isla de Cano in Costa Rica. Weighing up to 16 tons, it’s hard to imagine how humans could have moved these gigantic sculptures hewn from hard granodiorite – considering that the nearest quarry for that material is over 50 miles away from where the sculptures were found. Over three hundred of them are scattered across Costa Rica, but we’ll never know why – the people who made them back in 1,000 C.E. are long gone and had no written records.

#17 Living Rock: Pyura chilensis (Chile and Peru)

Sometimes referred to as a 'living rock', Pyura chilensis is a tunicate that resembles a mass of organs inside a rock. It is often found in dense aggregations in the intertidal and subtidal coast of Chile and Peru. It is the closest anyone can get to finding blood in a stone! It is also served as a local delicacy in the cities surrounding the coasts.

#18 Tasmanian Giant Crab (Southern waters of Australia)

AKA “Giant Deepwater Crab” – One of the largest crabs in the world. – Weighs a mighty 29lb with a 15-inch shell. – It has a white shell with claws that are splashed in red.

#19 The Glowing Forest (Shikoku, Japan )

This forest glows in the dark thanks to a bunch of Luminescent Mushrooms. Mushrooms and fallen leaves emit a magical light for just a short period of time each year.

#20 Mystery object

While digging up their backyard, looking for worms to take on an upcoming fishing trip, two sisters from Kitchener, Canada stumbled upon a curious object. Deep in the ground, they found something transparent and shiny, with a bluish hue. At first they thought that it was part of a meteorite, however, earth sciences professor Phil McCausland disagreed, saying that the visible layer of the object should have been much darker if it really was part of a meteorite. Then, a gem expert, Gary Winkler, was contacted and asked to analyze the object. He found that it was definitely not a gem of any known kind. He also speculated that the object was not of natural origins but that a person deliberately buried it. No matter what it was, the sisters were going to keep it.

#21 A 3000-year-old prosthetic toe found in Luxor, Eygpt

A priest's daughter lost her big toe around 3000 years ago. When she died, she was entombed near Luxor, Egypt in a cemetery reserved for elite members of the community. In 2017, she and her prosthetic toe were found by Swiss scientists from the University of Basel.

The prosthesis is likely the oldest of its kind. Made of wood, it came with panels that can be laced together to keep it snug, and it had been refitted more than once. “The fact that the prosthesis was made in such a laborious and meticulous manner indicates that the owner valued a natural look, aesthetics, and comfort, and she was able to count on highly qualified specialists to provide this,” said a University of Basel press release.

#22 60 rare cars worth millions are found rusting in a barn in France

A previously unknown collection of 60 vintage automobiles from the 1930s to the 1950s was recently unearthed in France. The fleet isn't made up of just any old cars, but instead, the collection includes some of the most collectible vehicles ever to roll off the assembly line and is worth an estimated several million dollars.

Owner Roger Baillon passed away around ten years ago, at which time his son inherited his estate. After the junior Baillon passed away, his heirs decided to sell the collection.

The cars aren't in the best of shape but are so rare that they are indeed worth restoring. A Talbot-Lago once owned by Egyptian King Farouk, the tenth ruler of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty was found amongst the dusty treasures, as was a Ferrari owned by actor Alain Delon. There are also Maseratis, Bugattis, Delahayes, Delages, Hispano-Suizas, and Panhard-Levassors, but the most expensive car in the collection is a 1961 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spyder, worth anywhere between $9.5 to $14.9 million. There were only 37 models ever made and sold, all of which are carefully documented, and this one was thought to be lost forever.