WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE BIG MAC

So what can one expect to pay for these simple ingredients? In the United States a Big Mac will cost approximately $3.00 - $4.50, depending on which state you’re in but this is still mere pennies compared to what you will pay in other parts of the world.

You’ll find the most expensive Big Macs when you’re in Denmark, Switzerland, Norway or Iceland.

Iceland is home to the very most expensive, with a Big Mac costing 469 kronur, about $7.61 USD.

In Norway it costs 40 Norwegian kroner, about $6.88 USD.

In Switzerland it's about 6.30 Swiss francs, about $5.20 USD.

Denmark’s sandwiches then seem like a bargain at 27.75 Danish kroner, about $5.08 USD.

The Big Mac

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE BLU-RAY PLAYER

The player is packed with features including an ‘AC-Curator’ which is a power supply circuit that is said to improve visual and audio stability. The Eidos is also carefully constructed so that vibrations are completely eliminated and video errors are eradicated.

Aesthetically this model is quite the winner as well, and even looks a little retro with its VHS-VCR look. These features are just a few on this Eidos Blu-Ray that cashes in for a mere $16,900.

Eidos

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE BRIDGE

The Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 seriously compromised the safety of one section of the bridge, especially if another earthquake should hit the city. Because different strategies had continuously been discussed about whether to repair or replace that section of the bridge, and where the funding should come from, construction was slow to begin. A decision was made to completely replace the entire section of bridge that had been damaged and that the funding would come from the people who travelled across it. The toll on the bridge has now been raised from three dollars to four dollars. With 280,000 vehicles crossing the bridge every day, this is a major source of funding.

January 2002 saw construction begin on the section of the bridge and it should be completed by 2012. The cost of replacing this section of bridge is approximately 6.3 billion dollars.

The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE CRUISE DESTINATION

The truth is that Antarctica is a very beautiful place to visit and if you go at the right times, you could see truly once in a lifetime sights. Antarctica even has a tourist season which is between November and February when the temperatures are high enough for travel and the sun also stays out much longer, as much as twenty hours per day. Travelling to Antarctica during November and December gives way for many available penguin hatching sights and travelling in February will provide you with many whale sightings than you would see at any other time of the year.

The cruises generally leave from South America and once you reach Antarctica, you can catch glimpses as you sail by. The cruises do not allow for anyone to get off the ship. All of this for the low, low price of $26,000!

An Antarctica Cruise

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE COW

The most expensive cow came from the United States and she had a price tag of a whopping $1 million. Her name is Apple and she costs such a princely sum not only because of her fabulous genes, but also for a color that you don’t see on cows often – red. Apple was sold at an auction in Litchfield, Connecticut where a small group of farmers got together to collect the funds in order to be partial owner of this rare beauty. She has extremely good genes that have potential for many more great litters that could bring the owners a fortune. The day before Apple was sold, 5 of her calves were sold at the same auction. Each was 5-months old and each was sold for $160,000.

One reason why Apple’s color is so enviable is because it’s extremely rare. But another reason is because Apple can breed either black and white cows, or red and white cows due to Apple’s color. Apple has now gone to her new home in Wisconsin to continue to be a working cow. Her main responsibilities are to produce milk and embryos.

Apple

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE CORVETTE

A Corvette with a brand-new LS9 engine; supercharged 6.2 liter V8 that puts out 620 horsepower and 6500 RPMs. The Corvette ZR1 will impress even those with no knowledge of how cars work with top speeds that soar over the 200mph mark and its ability to go from 0-60mph in 3.0 seconds. That surpasses even its predecessor, the Corvette Z06! Many of the body parts are also constructed from carbon fiber and it has an adjustable suspension.

The car was first announced at the 12 Hours of Sebring race in 2005 and hopefully, 2009 will be the year that it reaches the market and the public’s hands. However, it does come with the sticker price of $100,000 and the price doesn’t top out there. For those who are truly wealthy and passionate about their cars, there are also a number of premium interior options and chrome wheels available – all for an additional price, of course!

The Corvette ZR1

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE CAT TREE HOUSES

The Rondo Modern Cat Tree and Condo is also priced at $875 and is only for the trendiest of cats. This cat tree house may only stand at 2.5 feet high, but it’s easy for little kitty to jump into and snuggle up for a good midday catnap. The main cylinder is available in either wicker or eleven different colors of felt, leather, or faux leather. There are also five choices available for the cushion that sits inside, giving a total of 60 different variations available for this luxury cat tree house. The stand and the base are both made of stainless steel, giving it a polished and contemporary look.

There’s no doubt that when you want to give your little feline friend a little something special and elegant, that only one of these two tree houses will do!

World's Most Expensive Cat Tree Houses

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE COGNAC

The most expensive cognac is Henri IV Dudognon Heritage and it is named after a French king. This king’s family has been making the cognac since 1776. The wine is placed in barrels where it will age for one hundred years. These barrels need to be air dried for five years before any cognac can be placed into them. The cognac that comes out of the barrels after one-hundred-and-five years is 41% alcohol, making it 82 proof.

The bottle in which the cognac is placed also contributes to it being the most expensive cognac in the world. The bottle is dipped in twenty-four karat gold and sterling platinum before being decorated with 6,500 brilliant cut diamonds. The total cost for this fine bottle of cognac? $2 million USD.

Henri IV Dudognon Heritage

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE CHAMPAGNE

If you won the lotto and feel the urge to celebrate we found a couple of bubblies to cut into your bankroll.

According to Forbes Krug Clos du Mesnil 1995 is the most expensive champagne that can be bought off the shelf.

A single bottle will set you back $750.00 USD, but you'd better hurry as only 12,624 bottles were ever produced.

Not expensive enough for you?

On September 27 2005 A Methuselah of Louis Roederer Cristal 1990 sold for $14,730.00 in a London auction.

Louis Roederer Cristal 1990

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE CAR KEY

The key is fashioned in the shape of a watch and that’s quite appropriate as there’s also a stopwatch included within the key. This key, known as the AMVOX2, features vertical trigger chronograph technology, which is still considered to be advanced technology but was virtually unheard of when it was used for this key. The watch’s surface was not only made from crystal sapphire but the watch actually works as a stopwatch, with the ability to stop, start, and reset all by gently pressing the crystal.

Also along this surface are “open” and “close” features, which will lock or unlock either an Aston Martin DBS or an Aston Martin Rapide. Pressing both of these buttons at the same time will make the car’s headlights briefly appear and flash, making the car noticeable to the owner who’s looking for it in a crowded parking lot.

When you’re already paying the pricey amount of the car, why not go the extra mile and get yourself the world’s most expensive car key?

The World's Most Expensive Car Key

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE CAR ACCIDENT

On March 04, 2007 a UK man took his brothers Bugatti Veyron out for a spin, literally.

On a rainy stretch on Renfree Way in Shepperton, Surrey the driver spun out at 100 mph, colliding with a van and then spinning into the trees, but luckily no one was seriously injured although we don't know what happened to the driver after his brother got a hold of him.

The car ended up a write-off and the insurance bill will be topping £800,000 which does not include the damage to the van.

The Wrecked Bugatti Veyron

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE CANDY BAR

However, the candy bar actually had a larger impact on the alternate reality game show The Lost Experience, where contestants’ actions determined the outcome of the game. During promotion for the game show, the producers handed out many of the Apollo candy bar and also invited many people to be photographed with the candy bar, so that their pictures could be seen online. Once enough pictures were collected, the producers also distributed a video that would conclude the game. It’s from the candy bars that were handed out as marketing efforts that comes the most expensive candy bar.

This particular Apollo candy bar was sold on eBay just before the release of the conclusion video. It sold for $130 USD, making it the most expensive candy bar ever sold. Apollo bars are still for sale on eBay but they usually only cost about $10 USD.

The World's Most Expensive Candy Bar

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE CANDLE

The Ultimate Luxury Candle was designed by Luxury Soy Candles and it sells for just under $5,000. If you think that’s a lot of money to spend on a candle, consider that it comes wrapped in more than just its beautiful black box with white bow. Around the piece of glass that surrounds the actual candle is a beautiful bracelet that’s bejeweled with 38 diamonds for a total of 2.23 carats, and they’re all set in 14K white gold.

Now that’s a candle that really might be too precious to burn!

The Ultimate Luxury Candle

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE BIBLE

The Saint John’s Bible as it’s known, is huge in everything from how it was produced to its actual size. It stands two feet tall and is three feet tall and is over one thousand pages in length. The book is bound in seven different volumes. The calligraphy was written on vellum and the quills that were used as writing instruments were dipped in inks and pigments that were all handmade. The Saint John’s Bible has also been coated in gold and silver leaf.

Many important decisions had to be made with the creation of this Bible but the hardest was deciding what version of the Bible would be used. It was finally decided that because the New Revised Standard Version was the version most accepted by Christian churches and so this was the version used.

With a sale price of $130,000, this is truly the most expensive Bible in the world.

World's Most Expensive Bible

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE BIRTHDAY PARTY

The world’s most expensive birthday party was held by the Sultan of Brunei on July 13 1996 to celebrate his 50th birthday.

The highlight of the party was concerts featuring Michael Jackson who was paid $16 million to perform.

Throw in some caviar, champagne and other munchies and the bill for the world’s most expensive birthday came to $27.2 million USD.

The Sultan Of Brunei

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE BASS GUITAR

The most expensive bass guitar comes from a designer of top-of-the-line guitars, Jens Ritter, and it is neither one that you will be able to find in your local music shop nor is it even completed yet! The most expensive bass guitar in the world is being created by Jens Ritter for a private customer who specially asked for the guitar to be custom-made for them. The guitar may not be entirely completed just yet but it does already have a name – The Ritter Royal Flora Aurum.

The body of the guitar is one solid piece of rare maple that has been carved out to make the guitar’s shape and a 10,000-year-old piece of ivory was used to carve out the nut. A pretty design travels up the fingerboard of the guitar and this definitely helps add to the value as 24-karat gold is used to make up the entire pattern. And within each leaf in the pattern is a black diamond that has been cast into platinum. The bridge, knobs and tuner are all of course, cast in gold and the knobs also feature brilliant-cut diamonds on their tops for a total of an additional 3.3 karats.

But because the guitar is being made for and purchased by a private owner, even if you had the $100,000 that is said to be the guitar’s value, you still wouldn’t be able to buy it!

The Ritter Royal Flora Aurum

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE AUTOGRAPH

There are only six known authenticated copies of his autograph, one on a conveyance for a house in London, one on a deposition in a legal case, one on his mortgage papers, and three in his will, all are held in institutions.

Should one of William Shakespeare's autographs ever come up for auction it would fetch an estimated $5,000,000.00 USD.

William Shakespeare's Autograph

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE MR. POTATO HEAD

The Mr. Potato Head has definitely evolved over the many years since it first hit the shelves as toys that could be stuffed into a real potato to make it look strange and funny. It then metamorphosed into a plastic toy potato and before you knew it, there was just about any kind of Mr. Potato Head that you could imagine lining the shelves! But there are a select few Mr. Potato Heads that will never end up on the shelves with all the others – these are the most expensive Mr. Potato Heads in the world.

The plastic frames of the Mr. Potato Heads are the same as the typical ones that you can find anywhere but designer Jay Strongwater has placed by his own hand over 50,000 Swarovski crystals. These crystals are truly brilliant and will sparkle as they show off all of their seventeen different colors! Once Strongwater was finished completely covering the Mr. Potato Head with crystals, he signed each Mr. Potato Head. In 2004, they were sold in the Neiman Marcus catalogue and cost a pricey $8,000 each!

World's Most Expensive Mr. Potato Head

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE MARMALADE

This unique and delectable Seville Orange Marmalade is created with whisky, champagne and cold mixed with the Seville orange. The exact ingredients include vintage Dalmore 62 whisky from Whyte & Mackay, with a splash of Pol Roger Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill 1996 vintage champagne and garnished with flakes of 24-carat gold leaf.

The marmalade jar alone is valued at £1,100.

This is the type of jar and jam that you do not want the children to use for their peanut butter and jam sandwiches.

F Duerr & Son Marmalade

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE PIE

The world's most expensive pie was created by Spencer Burge, the head chef at the Fence Gate Inn, and will set you back a sweet £8,195.00 or, according to our pie chart, £1024.38 per slice.

In case you want to bake your own, here are the ingredients:

• 2.5 Kilo Wagyu Fillet of Beef
• 1.5 Kilo matsutake mushrooms
• 2 bottles 1982 Chateau Mouton Rothschild
• 250 grams French Bleus mushrooms
• 100 grams winter black truffle
• Four packets Gold Leaf
• Shallots, flour, egg, fresh herbs
• 2 Bottles Louis Roederer Cristal Rose pink champagne

World's Most Expensive Pie

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE PIZZA

Back in November 2006 Maurizio Morelli, an Italian lawyer, won an auction on eBay for a pizza and on February 14, 2007, as a Valentine's present for his wife the pizza was delivered.

The pizza, dubbed Pizza Royale 007, contained venison medallions, Scottish smoked salmon, edible gold, champagne-soaked caviar and lobster marinated in the finest Cognac.

Chef Domenico Crolla from Glasgow flew over 1,000 miles to Rome to prepare the 12 " world's most expensive pizza.

The winning bid; £2,150 or about $4200.00 USD.

If you're thinking 'that's one long pizza delivery, it doesn't even come close to the world's longest pizza delivery.

The World's Most Expensive Pizza

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE PERSIAN RUG

Because of the luxurious material to make them, along with the intricate, detailed work that goes into making them, Persian rugs are some of the most expensive floor coverings that you could use in your home but there is one in particular that gained a lot of attention at the Christie’s auction in June 2008.

This Persian rug measures 7’5” x 5’7” and it originates from the 16th or 17th century and was previously owned by Doris Duke, who was a tobacco heiress. She had purchased it in 1990 and when she died she left it to the Newport Restoration Foundation, who then turned it over to Christie’s Auction House to sell on their behalf. It was estimated that the rug would garner approximately $1.5 million at the auction and so, imagine the surprise when it sold for a record-breaking $4.45 million. That works out to about $729.87 per square inch!

So what makes the world’s most expensive Persian rug just so valuable anyway? It’s considered to be a work of art and there are only 2 other known rugs that are like it. Also, it has 17 different colors within it, which is almost unheard of in a Persian rug!

The World's Most Expensive Persian Rug

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE SPICE

Saffron (crocus sativus) comes from the dried stigmas of the purple saffron crocus and it takes up to 250,000 hand-picked flowers to make just one pound.

Saffron dates back to ancient Egypt and Rome where it served in perfume, dyes and food.

One pound of Saffron runs $400.00 - $800.00 USD, but in times past sold as high as $5,000.00/pound.

Saffron

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE SUNDAE

As you may have guessed, it's no ordinary sundae, it's the Golden Opulence Sundae.

The Golden Opulence Sundae comes in a Baccarat crystal goblet, which you get to take home, a golden spoon, which you don't.

The sundae contains 5 scoops of the richest Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream infused with Madagascar vanilla and covered in 23K edible gold leaf, covered in the world's most expensive chocolate and stuffed with candied fruits from Paris, gold leaf, truffles,Marzipan cherries and topped with a bowl of Grand Passion caviar.

Thinking of buying your sweetie one for Valentine's? The world's most expensive sundae comes with a sweet price tag of $1,000.00 USD.

The Golden Opulence Sundae

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE WINGTIPS

Of course, only Louis Vutton wingtips could be considered the most expensive, but that’s only because they’re exceptionally stylish. They start with waxed alligator leather, which covers the entire upper of the shoe. Then Blake construction is used to individually hand-stitch every seam. This is to ensure that every pair of these expensive Louis Vutton wingtips is fit to be the most comfortable. But leather can’t only be found on the outside of these shoes. The inside of the shoe is also filled with soft, supple leather that will ensure that these wingtips truly feel like no other.

But of course, Louis Vutton would make sure that more than just the outside and inside are beautiful and comfortable – the soles are made of the finest quality too! Not only are the soles also hand-stitched, paying attention to every last detail, but they’re also hand-painted and constructed completely of leather. And, the soles are topped off with the signature “LV” embedded into it.

Sound fancy enough for you? If so, all you’ll have to do is fork over $10,000. This may be a bit steep, but consider that you’ll be wearing the most beautiful and most comfortable shoes, but they’ll be Louis Vutton too!

Manhattan Richelieu Wingtips

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE YO-YO

Yo-Yos were created in China about 2500 BC.

The world's most expensive Yo-Yo sold at an auction for $16,000.000 USD.

The world's most expensive production Yo-Yo is 'Cold Fusion' produced by Hasbro and retails for $150.00 - $250.00 USD. Cold Fusion is made of aircraft-grade aluminum, features a ball-bearing axle and a brake pads for quick response.

The longest spin time on a Yo-Yo was achieved with a 'Cold Fusion' Yo-Yo.

UPDATE: October 13, 2008

Duncan has released the Freehand Mg which is made of 99% magnesium. Both sides of the Freehand Mg are separately forged  and then machined using a computer to control the lathe lathe resulting in a tolerance not exceeding1/100,000th of an inch.

Price: roughly $499.00 USD.

The Cold Fusion Yo-Yo

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE MEDICINE

People pay billions of dollars in prescription medicine every year. But just what medicine qualifies as the most expensive of them all?

That medicine, according to Forbes, is Soliris. Soliris is made by Alexion Pharmaceuticals and is used to treat paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, otherwise known as PNH. PNH is a form of anemia, but it’s an extremely rare form. Instead of being inherited, as other forms of anemia are, PNH is acquired. What also differentiates PNH from other forms of anemia is the fact that instead of the body having a low production of red blood cells, as is the case with common forms of anemia, the body actually destroys red blood cells. This not only makes PNH much rarer, but also much more dangerous.

PNH is so rare that it’s estimated that only about 8,000 Americans suffer from it. Because of this, Alexion Pharmaceuticals doesn’t have many people competing with them in regards to the medication for it. And it’s because there are no competitors for it that Alexion can charge $409,500.

Soliris

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE MOBILE NUMBER

Announced by the Kuwaiti News Agency, the world’s most expensive mobile number was auctioned for charity in Qatar on May 22 2006.

The number sold for 10m Qatari riyals or £1.5m. The number, would you believe, was 666-6666.

The auction was organized by national telco Qtel that has held two previous auctions and is planning on another one in September. In the beginning, there were eight individuals bidding on this unique number but it finally dwindled down to last souls.

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE INAUGURATION

What do you do when you're elected President of of the United States for a second term by the skin of your teeth?

Why, you hold the most expensive inauguration party ever.

And George W. Bush is no different, that's exactly what he did, spending a whopping bushel of cash, $40 million, to be more exact, on his three day inauguration celebration in January 2005.

George W. Bush

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE EASTER BUNNY

Easter will never be the same again. Everyone will desire to have their own Easter Bunny year round displayed on the mantel once they catch a glimpse of the Most Expensive Easter Bunny. Chocolate eggs and marshmallow bunnies will never be the same again.

This Easter Bunny was on the auction block at Harrod’s. It is made to resemble the Lindt chocolate bunnies that were always wrapped in gold foil that we found in our Easter baskets on Easter morning left by the mysterious Easter Bunny. This Easter Bunny however, is not made from 200 grams of chocolate but 24-karat gold. It is inlaid with rubies, citrine, topaz, and diamonds.

The value of this unique Easter Bunny is just over $35,000 or £20,000.

Lindt Chocolate Bunny

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE FOUNTAIN PEN

Caran d’Ache. He designed this pen to show his respect and in the memory of Antoni Gaude a famous modernist architect that lived from 1852 until his death in 1926.

The La Modernista Diamonds fountain pen is made of rhodium coated solid silver components, with an 18-carat gold nib and is covered with 5072 full cut top Wesselton VS diamonds which total a whopping 20 carats. There are 96 half cut rubies arranged on the top of cap, which forms the monogram.

The pen was sold in Harrods, London through a Swiss company, for $265,000 USD.

La Modernista Diamonds Fountain Pen

The World's Most Expensive Flower

In Guangdong, China the Shenzhen Nongke Group, involved in agricultural science research, grew an orchid in 2005.

It was quite an ugly orchid, but an anonymous buyer at an auction would probably disagree with us as he or she bid 1.68 million yuan for the ugly orchid.

SO just how much is 1.68 million yuan? It's roughly $202,000.00 USD and that's just how much the world's most expensive flower sold for.

The World's Most Expensive Flower

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE EXPLOSION SEQUENCE IN A MOVIE

Making movies with explosions is known to be an expensive endeavor and with all the action-packed movies around you may wonder which one had the most expensive explosion sequence.

The answer is Pearl Harbor released in 2001. Remember at the end of the movie with the destruction of the six ships during the bombing scene. Well, there you have the scene and the movie. Each one of those ships measured 400 to 600 feet in length, it took 12 camera teams, the explosion took one entire month to rig, required 700 sticks of dynamite, 2,000 feet of primer cord and 4,000 gallons of gasoline. The price tag was a whopping $5.5 million.

Pearl Harbor

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE EAR BUDS

Depending on the type of ear buds you choose when you listen to your music, they are most likely very stylish or deliver great sound quality. And if you wear ear buds for style, then the iDiamond Earphones are ones that will make your ears truly sparkle!

These diamonds were created by Thomas Heyerdahl, who was also the genius behind the very pricey iDiamond iPhones. These earphones are designed in the same fashion as standard iPhone ear buds but they are of course, built using 18 karat gold. Oh, and into this gold are 204 diamonds, another nice little addition that you won’t find on the standard buds. And what makes them even more valuable? Despite other ‘most expensive’ items which are only created as a prototype or as a one-time charity event, these ear buds were sold for actual consumer sale but with the catch that only 1,000 pairs would be made! And for authentication purposes, every pair is embedded with a number from 1-1,000 so people would know they were getting the real deal.

These ear buds were first sold in March 2008 but of course, only the highest-end and finest jewellery stores sold them. At that time, you could bob away to your favorite song for only $6,400. But now that there aren’t publicly available, a pair of the world’s most expensive ear buds will probably cost you even more than that!

iDiamond Earphones

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE 4 x 4

This wonderful protection will not only protect your Combat T98 from scratches and dents at the shopping mall but will scare away any drive by shooter since it will protect the vehicle from 12.7 mm bullet.

This awesome vehicle is based on GM components, which include an 8.1-liter engine, Allison transmission, and HD suspension.

The bulletproof steel is reached by using hi-quality Germany steel that makes the body practically indestructible. It has the double body made on the base, which is the creation of "metal-ceramic sandwich with cellular filler" technology.

Even the glass on the Combat T98 protects against the blast of a shotgun. This may be one of the best vehicles around if you are concerned for your own protection of mine blasts, drive by shootings, or just an angry neighbor. The worst part is not too many can really afford to own and drive one of these 4x4’s. If this vehicle gets into the wrong hands, we had better come up with better ways to protect our money in the bank. Nothing could stop would be thieves if they had a Combat T98 as their get-a-way vehicle.

The Combat T98

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE GIFT CARD

Seems Christmas shoppers are getting lazier and lazier each year and as a result gift card sales have been reaching record numbers.

There is now a gift card available for the super rich and super lazy, the world's most expensive gift card.

The Holiday DreamCard from Halcyon Jets is good for one-way trips or round-trip travel, and it may be used for a single flight or multiple trips for their on-demand private charter aircraft services.

The cost of the gift card; a measly $5,000,000.00 USD.

Halcyon Jets Holiday DreamCard

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE FOUNTAIN

Dubai is certainly a place of elegance, boldness, and a land where things are expensive. So it’s not surprising that this is where the world’s most expensive fountain can be found. This fountain, which exudes sophistication and cost quite a chunk of change to make, is appropriately named Dubai Fountain.

Dubai Fountain lies in good company in the Downtown Burj Dubai development project, in which the Dubai Mall and humongous Burj Dubai skyscraper also sit. The fountain jets shoot up and down to the backdrop of classical music. Often, superlights and color projectors are also used to make for a truly unique and fantastic show! The fountain itself is over 900 feet long and the jets can spray up to 500 feet high, shooting as much as 22,000 gallons of water at any given time. Dubai Fountain was constructed by WET Design, the same company that designed another famous fountain in another bold and spectacular city, Fountains of Bellagio, in Las Vegas. You can walk by and see it yourself for free. But the Dubai Fountain cost a whopping $217 million to build.

The announcement that the costly structure was to be built was made in June 2008. It was also during that ceremony that the government announced the fountain was yet unnamed. The government would hold a contest where entrants could suggest a name for the chance of winning 100,000 dirham (which is about $27,226 USD.) 15 contestants entered with the name “Dubai Fountain” and apparently, it stuck. Those contest winners split the prize total.

Dubai Fountain

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE FRY

The world’s most expensive fry is actuality is only a prop that was created from polyurethane by DDB for television and Internet advertisements. This “Lincoln Fry” used by MacDonald’s during an ad during the Super Bowl is now the most expensive fry known in the world.

GoldenPalace.com already used an unusual food product for advertising once before with the Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Sandwich which they purchased at auction on eBay for $28,000 and now are the proud owner of the world’s most expensive fry in the world when they also bought it for $75,000. Both the fry and the grilled cheese sandwich will be touring the countryside, of course for advertising purposes.

Most Expensive Fry

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE GIN

Gin has never gotten the rise to fame that vodka has but for gin-drinkers, there’s none other than the fine taste of juniper berries! It’s from these berries that every gin is made but manufacturers have added to the flavors, changed the alcohol content, and otherwise changed the gin so that gin-lovers have a wide variety of flavor when it comes to their favorite drink. Revelation is one such gin that is bursting with distinct flavor. This gin, made by Bombay Spirits Co., jewelers Baccarat and Garrard, and designer Karim Rashid, is not only the most expensive gin in the world, it’s also one of the most rare!

Revelation is the finest blend of juniper berries, almond, lemon, liquorice, orris root, angelica, coriander, cassia, cubeb, and grains of paradise. And of course, for such a fine liqueur, only the finest bottle will do. That’s why Revelation comes wrapped in a handmade crystal bottle that’s topped with a crystal stopper with a beautiful gleaming sapphire sparkling in the center. So what does such a fine piece of drink cost? Each bottle sold for $200,000. And if you think that’s a lot of money for gin, consider that included in this price are also bragging rights for owning such a rare bottle of gin. There were only five bottles of Revelation made and after it made its debut at Garrard’s in London, it was sold at five different airports.

The World's Most Expensive Gin

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE FOOTBALL TABLE

The most expensive football table to date is the Opus.

This unique football table is the perfect gift for any man that loves football,  consisting of the most innovative technology, and hand designed beauty.

The patent pending doppelganger technology enables microcast 3D heads to be produced from photographs, brining life-like realism to the faces of the friends and family you wish to have on your team.

However, if you add this to your Christmas list, you had better hope you were a real good boy since Santa will have to fork over £25,000.00 or $48,905.00 USD.

The Opus Football Table

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE KIDNEY STONE

Goldenpalace.com, that boasts in it collect, among other things, the world's most expensive toast, hit rock bottom with a new addition to it's collection on Tuesday January 17 2006.

After a $15,000.00 offer was passed on, Goldenpalace.com agreed to pay $25,000.00 on January 17 2006 to stone cold William Shatner for his recently passed kidney stone.

The cold hard cash will go to Habitat for Humanity, which builds houses for the needy and the kidney stone will cover about 1/2 a house.

Here are a couple comment Captain Kirk had about the world's most expensive kidney stone:

• "It was so large you'd want to wear it on your finger."
• "If you subjected it to extreme heat, it might turn out to be a diamond."

William Shatner

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE LIZARD

The world’s most expensive lizard is a leucistic Nile monitor lizard that was offered by the reptile shop, the Reptile Haven, at the end of 2003. The Nile monitor lizard comes, appropriately, from Africa and leucism is a rare condition that is caused by a complete absence of pigmentation. Unlike albinism, which only affects melanin, leucism affects pigmentation in the entire skin. However, also unlike albinism, a person or animal affected with leucism will still keep the pigmentation in their eyes.

The rarity of this condition alone is enough to make the lizard pretty pricey. In fact, the price of the most expensive lizard is $1,000,000. Although, there’s no word yet on whether or not the Reptile Haven ever sold the most expensive lizard in the world.

Leucistic Nile Monitor

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE NOVEL

You may be use to paying up to $30 for a good novel, but how would you like to purchase a novel for $500. This novel by Tom Corven is the world’s most expensive novel to say the least. Why is it so expensive, you ask?

Well, the reason is you are offered more than just a good read. With your purchase of the novel, you will have your name printed on one single page in every book printed. Each novel will be signed by the author and will sell worldwide. Not only will you have your name on a page of the book, but you will also receive a share in the profit of each and every book sold until you have received 10 times the amount you invested in the book in the beginning.

If you are now ready to rush right out and purchase one, the title is “The Dreamwords Trilogy”. Enjoy and hope you get rich.

The Dreamwords Trilogy

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE NUT

Those who are avid bakers will know which nuts are best to use in the different breads and pastries that they make. Some folks prefer one type of nut over another because of its taste but there’s one nut that people tend to shy away from and that is the macadamia. This is not because it has an unpleasant taste. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. The macadamia nut is one of the best tasting nuts in the world and that’s just one reason why it is the most expensive nut in the world.

Although the nut is native to Australia, Hawaii produces the most macadamia nuts. A contributor to the price of the nut is the fact that the kernel can be comprised of eighty percent oil. This oil, which is often used in place of mink oil, is especially useful in cosmetics and other skin care products. The macadamia tree also does not start producing viable nuts until it is seven to ten years old, giving harvesters one more reason to charge so much. And lastly, the macadamia grows within an extremely hard shell. The shell is so hard in fact, that it has been known to break nutcrackers that were designed for home use. Because of this, all macadamia nuts must be released from their shell before they are sold. All of these factors contribute to the $15 - $16 USD per pound that you can expect to pay for the Macadamia nut.

Macadamia Nuts

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE WATER

The world’s most expensive water can be found 2,000 feet down off the coast of Hawaii.

The name of this expensive water that is bottled by Hawaii Deep Marine is Kona Nigari.

This water is a seawater mineral concentrate that you mix with your regular drinking water.

The Japanese are driving the cost up even more as they cannot get enough. At this time, only 2 ounces of Kona Nigari costs $33.50 USD.

If you are thinking about purchasing one gallon then you had better be ready to charge it to get soaked, the price of one gallon is only $2,144.00 USD.

Kona Nigari Water

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE RUBIK'S CUBE

This record is no puzzle, the world's most expensive Rubik's cube is the Masterpiece Cube, produced by Diamond Cutters International in 1995.

The Masterpiece Cube is regular size, fully functional and boasts 22.5 karats of amethyst, 34 karats of rubies, and 34 karats of emeralds and the cube is made of 18 karat gold.

The estimated value is about $1,500,000.00 USD.

Now for some Rubik's cube fun facts:

• The Rubik's cube was invented in the spring of 1974 by Erno Rubik.
• There are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 (43 quintillion) combinations on the 3x3x3 Rubik's cube.
• It took Erno Rubik one month to solve the cube for the first time.
• The original colors of the Rubik's cube were white, orange, blue, red, yellow and green.
• On January 16 2006 Leyan Lo, a 20-year-old California Institute of Technology student, claimed the new world record by solving the cube in a mere 11.13 seconds.

Rubik's Cube

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE POP STAR CLOTHING

Do you wonder if your pop star favorite wears expensive clothing. Well, if you are a fan of Geri Halliwell of the Spice Girls your favorite wore the most expensive pop star clothing ever.

The outfit that Geri Halliwell wore during the 1997 Brit awards performance was sold on September 16, 1998 at Sotheby’s in London, UK. The price this unique outfit sold for was £41,320.00 GBP or $66,112.00 USD.

Geri Halliwell Outfit

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE STOLEN PAINTING

With a value estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars, the Mona Lisa is the world's most expensive painting ever stolen.

On August 21, 1911 ex Louvre employee Vincenzo Peruggia, who went by the name Leonardo Vincenzo, walked into an empty room, took the Mona Lisa off the wall, removed it from it's case in a stairwell and disappeared.

So impossible was the theft of the Mona Lisa that it was not discovered missing till the next day.

On December 11, 1913 the Mona Lisa was finally recovered after Leonardo Vincenzo tried to sell the painting to art dealer Alfredo Geri in Florence, Italy.

The Mona Lisa

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE STADIUM

In London, England you can find Wembley Stadium, in fact you can find 2 Wembley Stadiums, one which opened in 1923 and the other in 2007.

The new Wembley Stadium is the world's most expensive stadium costing £798 million or $1.56 billion USD to build.

The stadium is home to the English national men's football team and can hold 90,000 rowdy spectators for any given match.

Wembley Stadium

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE RECREATIONAL VEHICLE

Featherlite luxury coaches have built the most expensive luxury coach in history. This luxury RV has it all when it comes to comfort and luxury.

It took renowned interior designer Karen B. Horton, designer ASID, stone artist Patrick Paffour, sculptor Chip Manz, Seattle artist Roberto Scira, and Seattle artist Mark Ditzler to create this 2.5 million dollar luxury coach.

The name of this unique RV that is available now in 2006 was named Vantare Platinum Plus.

World's Most Expensive RV

WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE SALT

Today, salt operations on the island operate in much the same way that they did one thousand years ago. Perhaps the only difference is that this island has also become a huge tourist attraction due to the quality of salt that is produced there. The island sees approximately 60,000 visitors in a year.

The wonderful Laeso Salt costs 150 Danish kroner per kilogram. This is equal to approximately $29 USD. There are many other big plans going on for the island as well. Plans are in the works to reopen the dairy that sits on the land to begin manufacturing Laeso-salted, cheese, sausages, and hams. There is also a small church on the island that is going to be reopened to become a health spa. This health spa will provide people with skin disease to come bathe in the byproducts that come with producing this expensive salt.

Laeso Salt