2. The Amber Room
Another piece of fine art was lost in the fallout of the war against the Third Reich. This room was originally built by Germans in the 1700s by slapping amber all over it. The Russian Tsar loved it so much that he eventually had it given to him as a gift and added a lot more amber to the room. Hitler wanted it back since the Germans made it, but nobody knows if the room was able to be extracted before the Catherine Palace was bombed. It’s been rebuilt as an $11 million room, but the original was said to be worth about twenty times that much.
