You might think that pineapples are pretty cheap. Or, if you’re buying them when they’re not in season, pretty expensive. But, there’s one type of pineapple that is undoubtedly the most expensive pineapple in the world.

These pineapples come from the Heligan Gardens in Cornwall, England and not only are they the priciest pineapples that you can buy, but they also have a very rich history. The gardens actually become quite overgrown and overrun in the 1980s but the gardeners at Heligan began to work on the gardens in the 90s and restore them to their original beauty. The Pineapple Pit area of the gardens was then built in 1994 with the beautiful Henigan pineapples being planted in the Pit.

The method for growing the beautiful pineapples is done the same way today as it was 70 years ago. The growth method is known as a “hotbed” technique. With this technique, 30 tons of straw and manure are mixed together and then heated to very high temperatures through glass. The team collects this straw and manure from the Falmouth stables, which are located about an hour from the gardens.

The new pineapples that are grown in the garden currently do not have a price tag. However, seeing as how those at Heligan Gardens are so keen to keep to tradition, it’s guessed that they’ll price these beauties at the same cost of the originals, and they each cost about $15,000 to produce. The pineapples are so fancy though that when the original Heligans were produced, one was even hand-delivered to the Queen!

Trigger (1932 – 1965) was a golden palomino, made famous in American Western films by cowboy star Roy Rogers. Trigger was originally named Golden Cloud.

Golden Cloud made his movie debut as the mount of Maid Marian, played by Olivia de Havilland in The Adventures of Robin Hood in 1938. When Roy was preparing to make his first movie, he was offered a choice of five rented “movie” horses to ride. He chose Golden Cloud. Roy bought him that same year and renamed him Trigger.

Trigger became the most famous horse in film entertainment, even having his own Dell comic book recounting his exploits.

After Trigger died in 1965, his hide was stretched over a plaster likeness and put on display at the Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Museum in Victorville, California which was relocated to Branson, Missouri, and closed in late 2009.

In July 2010 at Christies Auction House, New York, television channel RFD-TV rustled up $266,500.00  to purchase Trigger with plans of starting up a Western museum.

On August 23, 2005 Hurricane Katrina came to life and in her short existence, even though she was only the sixth strongest recorded Atlantic hurricane, she was the costliest hurricane, causing $81.2 billion USD before fizzling out on August 30, 2005.

Here are the rest of the top ten most expensive hurricanes in U.S. history:

• 2: Andrew -  1992 - $26.5 billion
• 3: Ike - 2008 - $29.6 billion
• 4: Wilma - 2005 - $20.6 billion 
• 5: Charley - 2004 - $18.6 billion
• 6: Ivan – 2004 – $18.1 billion
• 7: Agnes – 1972 – $15.23 billion 
• 8: Hugo – 1989 – $14.1 billion
• 9: Rita – 2005 – $10.5 billion
• 10:Frances – 2004 – $10.4 billion 

Potatoes do come cheap. And, even when you add all sorts of extras like bacon bits, cheese, and sour cream, they still don’t cost all that much. Perhaps that’s why the most expensive baked potato doesn’t include any of those ingredients – except for the potato of course. But even without these potato toppings, the most expensive potato is still fully loaded.

The pricey baked potato is served at The Cary Arms in Devon County, England, and it was created by chef Ben Kingdon. The potato actually looks more like a bread bowl than it does a potato it’s so big and it comes fully stuffed with the most delicious ingredients you could ask for. First, the flesh of the potato is mixed with crème fraiche, lemon, chives, and spring onions. And, just to help beef the potato up even more so that it can claim the title of “World’s Most Expensive Baked Potato,” the whole thing is topped with a generous dollop of caviar.

Because baked potatoes are known as “jacket potatoes” in Great Britain, the chef, who’s only 24, has coined the nickname “tuxedo spud” for his costly potato. And just what does a tuxedo spud cost? 40 pounds, to be exact, which is about $60 USD. But, don’t fret if you think that’s too costly for a baked potato. You’ll also get two sides: balsamic roasted vine tomatoes and a salad, all served on a large wooden cutting board.

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.