SortStack #1935 — 2031-09-26
By price · Order from cheapest to most expensive.
- Costco's famous hot dog and soda combo $1.50
The price has been frozen since 1985. Co-founder Jim Sinegal reportedly told his CEO: 'If you raise the price of the hot dog, I will kill you.'
- A pack of cigarettes in the US, on average $8.00
Prices vary wildly by state taxes: a pack runs around six dollars in Missouri but can top twelve in New York.
- New Kim, the world's most expensive racing pigeon $1.9M
A Chinese buyer won the 2020 auction for the Belgian hen. Pigeon racing's huge prize purses in China have turned top breeding birds into seven-figure assets.
- One M1 Abrams main battle tank $10M
The Abrams runs on a gas turbine — essentially a jet engine — and can burn through roughly four liters of fuel per kilometer.
- Stan, one of the most complete T. rex skeletons ever found $31.8M
After the record 2020 sale, Stan's whereabouts were a mystery for years — he eventually surfaced as the future star of a new natural history museum in Abu Dhabi.
- The production of 'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' $379M
It remains among the most expensive films ever made — partly due to star salaries and shooting on water, which filmmakers consider a budget black hole.