100 Things You'll Never Find

Introduction. The Romanov Imperial Easter Eggs. Amelia Earhart's aeroplane. Lost fossils of the Bone Wars. The Davidoff-Morini Stradivarius. Recipe for Chartreuse. JFK's brain. The Story of the Kelly Gang. Loch Ness Monster. Roanoke Colony. Paititi. Holy Grail. Franklin's lost fleet. Shakespeare's Love's Labours Won. Raoul Wallenberg. A translation of the Cascajal block. Hangar 18. Treasure of the Knights Templar. The Mahogany Ship. Pythagoras's complete works. Jules Rimet Trophy. King John's crown jewels. Score of Thespis. Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi. Pi-Ramesse. Beagle 2. Blackbeard's Treasure. Tybee Island bomb. Kitezh. British Guinea 1c Magenta. Mozart and Salieri's Per la recuperate salute di Ophelia. The Great Mogul Diamond. Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine. Final panels of the Bayeux Tapestry. KFC's original recipe. HMS Hussar. Treasure of the Awa Maru. Wright Brothers' patent for a flying machine. Buddhas of Bamiyan. Library of Alexandria. The victims of Korean Air Lines Flight 007. The second book of Aristotle's Poetics. The San Miguel. Official files on the Rendlesham Forest Incident. Log of Columbus's First Voyage. Flight 19. Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Reimerswaal. The thylacine. Hemingway's lost manuscripts. Oliver Cromwell's head. The Fifth Man. The maharaja's lost treasure. Shergar. D.B. Cooper. A complete dodo skeleton. Formula for WD-40. Book of the Wars of the Lord. Vineta. Tomb of Nefertiti. Golden Plates of Mormonism. The identity of Beethoven's Immortal Beloved. Q Source. Flor de la Mar treasure. Lost Tribes of Israel. USS Cyclops. Hidden Bourbon treasure. Lost city of Z. Peacock Throne. The real King Arthur. Leonardo's Battle of Anghiari. King Solomon's Mines. Kruger's millions. Gene Roddenberry's ashes. The production process for Damascus steel. Sindia treasure. Atlantis. The missing Apollo 11 tapes. Ark of the Covenant. Lost army of Cambyses. Captain Kidd's treasure. The bones of the Peking Man. Montezuma's treasure. The solution to the Beale Ciphers. MV

Smith, Daniel
Daniel Smith is the bestselling author of 100 Places You Will Never Visit, which has been translated into eight languages. He has written more than fifteen books, on subjects as diverse as Sherlock Holmes, cockney rhyming slang and the WWII Dig for Victory campaign. Daniel is also a long-time contributor to The Statesman's Yearbook, an annual geopolitical guide to the countries of the world. He lives in London.