SortStack #717 — 2028-05-26
By price · Order from cheapest to most expensive.
- A round-trip economy flight from New York to London $700
In 1939, a one-way transatlantic ticket on Pan Am's flying boat cost $375 — several months of an average American salary at the time.
- An Apple Vision Pro headset $3.5K
Each Vision Pro contains more pixels in its two tiny displays than a 4K television — packed into screens roughly the size of postage stamps.
- A brand-new Toyota Corolla $23K
With over 50 million sold since 1966, the Corolla is the best-selling car nameplate in history — one has been sold roughly every 30 seconds for decades.
- The rarest Pokemon card, the Pikachu Illustrator, in mint condition $5.3M
Logan Paul bought it in 2022, setting a Guinness World Record — then wore it around his neck into a WrestleMania match.
- The Oppenheimer Blue, the largest fancy vivid blue diamond ever auctioned $57.5M
Blue diamonds owe their color to traces of boron and form deeper in the Earth than almost any other gem — only a handful surface each year.
- The International Space Station $150B
Often called the most expensive object ever built, the ISS has been continuously inhabited since the year 2000 and orbits Earth about sixteen times a day.