Most Expensive Things In the World.

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Hotel Room: Royal Penthouse Suite, Hotel President Wilson in Geneva

Royal Penthouse Suite, Hotel President Wilson in Geneva
Price: $65,000 per night

With 10 rooms and 7 bathrooms the pricetag should come as no surprise.
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Television: PrestigeHD Supreme Rose Edition

PrestigeHD Supreme Rose Edition

Price: $2.3 million

Covered in hand sewn alligator skin studded with an obnoxious amount of diamonds this television is supposedly designed to make viewing a pleasure whether it’s on or off.
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Piano: Heintzman Crystal

Heintzman Crystal

Price: $3.22 million

Made in Beijing this 9 foot piano was recently purchased at auction by a private bidder.
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Cigar: Gurkha Black Dragon

Gurkha Black Dragon

Price: $1,150 each  

Introduced in 2006, these Honduran cigars arrive on your doorstep in a chest constructed out of camel bone. Unfortunately we regret to inform the cigar enthusiasts among you that only 5 chests were ever produced.
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Motorcycle: Dodge Tomahawk V10 Superbike

Dodge Tomahawk V10 Superbike

Price: $700,000

This four wheeled 1,500 lb monster goes from 0 to 60 in 2.5 seconds with a top speed above 300 mph.
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Watch: Haute Joaillerie from Chopard

Haute Joaillerie from Chopard

Price: $25 million

While it looks more like a glittery mess than anything useful for telling time, this diamond studded watch apparently struck somebody’s fancy…and wallet.
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Champagne: Heidsieck Monopole 1907

Heidsieck Monopole 1907

Price: $25,000

In the late 90′s an underwater search party stumbled across a century old shipwreck containing 2,000 bottles of this French champagne.
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Speakers: Transmission Audio Ultimate System

Transmission Audio Ultimate System

Price: $2 million

Weighing in at over 5 tons these units are made out of aircraft aluminum and spans nearly 40ft.
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Painting: Number 5, 1948

Number 5, 1948

Price: $140 million

While Jackson Pollock’s work has certainly drawn its share of criticism for obvious reasons, any person that can shower a canvas with blobs of paint and then sell it for 7 figures probably doesn’t care very much about what other people think.
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House: Antillia Mumbai

Antillia Mumbai

Price: $2 billion

Named after the mythical Atlantic island of Antillia, this house in downtown Mumbai, India has over 600 full time staff.
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Picture: Rhein II

Rhein II

Price: $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 marche

Price: $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 Diamond

Price: $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 Supreme

Price: $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 Bird

Price: $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 Hirst

Price: $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 Hughes

Price: $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.com

Price: $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 Muse

Price: $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 spot

Price: $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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