If you happened to come to Vancouver for the 2010 Olympics and you happened to be here early and you happened upon the corner of West Georgia and Granville Street you just may have noticed a big silver nugget like looking thing appear one day.

Now, as hard as I tried and as many times as I walked past this thing I neither have no clue to what it is or why it’s there, but yet there it is.

I do know a few things, it has something to do with the Olympics, it’s silver and it’s big so I’m pretty sure it’s expensive, so based on that I propose that the big silver nugget sitting on the corner of West Georgia and Granville Street is the world’s most expensive silver thing.

Update: Well, managed to find out it’s called Zhan Wang’s Rock #143, is made of stainless steel and represents the new China: the growth and expansion of ideas, aesthetics, economics and internationalism.

Also seems there are a bunch more Zhan Wang’s Rocks and back in 2004 Zhan Wang, Artificial Rock Series,#29 sold at auction for $275,357.00 USD reinforcing the fact that this is the world’s most expensive silver thing.

Shimansky is a South African Jeweler and they have a gorgeous model named Minki van der Westhuizen.

One they they took 612 Shimansky Ideal Cut .5 carat diamonds and put them together with Minki van der Westhuizen. After 8 hours of adhering the diamonds to Minki, they had created the world’s most expensive tattoo, even though it’s just temporary.

Now if you would like your girl as stunning and shiny as Minki then a cool 7.2 million South African rands which is roughly $924,000.00 USD can get you the exact same tattoo.

If you don’t care about diamonds, but just like Minki with or without them then just for you, here is some info:

• Birth name:Willemien van der Westhuizen
• Date of birth: February 26, 1984
• Place of birth:Durbanville, Cape Town, South Africa
• Height: 1.72 m or 5 ft 71⁄2 in
• Hair color:Blonde
• Eye color: Green
• Measurements: 34-26-35

What happens if you walk onto a supermarket and take a picture? Usually not much.

But if your name is Andreas Gurskyand you are a German visual artist known for your enormous architecture and landscape color photographs then the results end up being the world’s most expensive photograph.

The photo depicts an interior of a supermarket with numerous aisles depicting goods resulting in a colorful work. The work is digitally altered to reduce perspective. The photograph is a chromogenic color print or c-print. It is a two part work, also called a diptych. There were 6 sets made and mounted on acrylic glass. The photographs have a size of 207 by 337 centimeters.

Created in 2001, 99 Cent II Diptychon, sold at auction at Sotheby’s on February 7, 2007 for a fair market price of $3.34 million USD.

Paul Jackson Pollock was born on January 28, 1912 and 36 years later in 1948 he would paint an abstract painting on a 8 x 4 fiberboard sheet what would ultimately become the world’s most expensive painting: No. 5, 1948.

No. 5, 1948 was bought on November 11, 2006 at a private sale via Sotheby’s for $140 million USD.

More expensive paintings:

• $137.5 million - Woman III by Willem de Kooning (1953)
• $135 million – Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Gustav Klimt (1907)
• $82.5 million - Portrait of Dr. Gachet by Vincent van Gogh (1890)
• $78.1 million - Bal du moulin de la Galette by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1876)