Throughout history, people have created countless magnificent artifacts and amassed huge treasures, some of these fantasic treasures have caught the eye of robbers and looters, due to their value and level of prestige. Often their theft or disappearance happens during times of war or disaster, when they cannot be protected or when a military force decides to take treasures back home as a trophy. Sometimes these treasures are recovered, but many are still missing.
Here are the top 20 most valuable stolen treasures in the world.
| Rank | Item | Value |
| 1. | Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa | $2 billion |
| 2. | Empire State Building | $1.89 billion |
| 3. | Amber Room | $303 million |
| 4. | Hope Diamond | $250 million |
| 5. | Van Eyck’s The Just Judges Panel | $227 million |
| 6. | Vermeer’s The Concert | $200 million |
| 7. | Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I | $150 million |
| 8. | Munch’s The Scream | $120 million |
| 9. | Raphael’s Portrait of a Young Man | $100 million |
| 10. | Rembrandt’s The Storm on the Sea of Galilee | $100 million |
| 11. | Cézanne’s The Boy in the Red Vest | $91 million |
| 12. | Da Vinci’s Madonna of the Yarnwinder (the Buccleuch Madonna) | $65 million |
| 13. | Cellini Salt Cellar | $65 million |
| 14. | Van Gogh’s Poppy Flowers | $55 million |
| 15. | Rembrandt’s Self-portrait with Beret and Gathered Shirt | $37 million |
| 16. | Third Imperial Fabergé Egg | $33 million |
| 17. | Patiala Necklace | $30 million |
| 18. | Picasso’s Le Pigeon aux Petits-Pois | $28 million |
| 19. | Caravaggio’s Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence | $20 million |
| 20. | Gibson Stradivarius | $15 million |
