Lost 100

A new book from the people who produced "100 places you will never visit" see my post 'Keep out' in 2013 - now comes "100 things you will never find".
The book by Daniel Smith details lost cities, hidden treasures, legendary quests, coverted artefacts and concealed secrets.
This book unlocks the world's lost property cupboard and sifts through buried treasure, mysterious disappearances and unknown locations, examining the evidence - and the conspiracy theories - surrounding the world's most legendary lost objects. Who erased the Nixon tapes? Did Captain Kidd really bury his treasure on Rhode Island? Is Lord Lucan still alive? Did NASA tape over the Apollo 11 recordings? Ranging from a single gemstone (the Great Mogul Diamond) to hoards of jewels (treasure of the Knights Templar); and from a single man (hijacker D.B. Cooper) to swathes of people (the Lost Army of Cambyses); via Shergar the stolen horse, the top secret recipe for KFC, the fifth spy in the 'Cambridge Five'; Daniel Smith shines a torch into the darkest speculative theories and examines the hidden truth. 

A fascinating catalogue of lost things, "100 Things You Will Never Find" will take you on a unique quest around the globe and across the centuries, searching for the legendary items that have inspired generations of explorers, scientists and storytellers alike. 
It gives a potted history of the thing may have been lost, stolen, hidden or just forgotten over the years; it then gives some hypothesis and theories on what may have transpired or why it will never be found.
Again there are a number of Australian entries -  "The story of the Kelly Gang" film, the Tassie tiger, the Mahogany Ship, and the disappearance of Harold Holt.

Faberge's Lily of the Valley egg

There are some of my favourites - Amelia Earhart's aeroplane, the crew of the Mary Celeste,
and the perennial favourites Atlantis, the Loch Ness Monster, the Ark of the Covenant, and the Holy Grail.
And then some that I wasn't aware of - the missing JFK brain, the Russian Imperial Faberge Easter Eggs, or the Tybee Island u-bomb.

Read more about these and the other 88 things you will never find. Or better yet devise your own 100 things never to be found...starting with Lasseter's Reef, the AE1, Lake Pedder, Excalibur, ...