Junk Yard Gems

Son of NASA chaplain inherits more than a hundred bibles that went to the moon.

Drag-racing champion leaves his son the car he designed to set the world speed record.

Cousins inherit oyster beds farmed by their family for a century, and are inspired to revive the dormant business.

A woman finds a surprising home for her father-in-law's hand-carved 60,000-piece miniature circus which had toured the world in the 1930's.

A retired school teacher inherits a French chateau that had been moved to New Jersey and filled with 19th-century furnishings from a Vanderbilt mansion.

Family inherits 200,000 pieces of jewelry worn in classic Hollywood movies.

Legendary Texas sheriff leaves his heirs Bonnie Parker's ring, recovered after his shootout with the Bonnie & Clyde gang.

Heirs feud over 20 acres of elaborate tunnels, rooms and gardens dug by hand by their uncle, who emigrated from Sicily in 1906.

Artist's daughter inherits hundreds of priceless handmade masks of famous figures from the 1930s and '40s.

Idaho farmer meticulously restores classic cars in his barn, and leaves them to his children.

Texas man leaves his family a massive model railway that he spent $1 million to build.

Nephew inherits boxes of original IRS documents revealing his uncle was an undercover agent who helped take down Al Capone and solve the Lindbergh Baby kidnapping.

New York woman inherits a priceless set of cymbals that famed Italian composer Giacomo Puccini had custom-made for his final opera.

Daughter inherits her father's million-dollar cache of Colt revolvers from the Old West, including a rare 1876 Buntline Special.

A woman's life changes when she inherits from her godmother 70 boxes of museum-worthy historic dresses.

A Vietnam vet leaves his son a mint-condition 1967 Stingray he obtained upon returning from combat.

A magician's wife inherits a jewel-encrusted pin said to have been bestowed on Harry Houdini by Czar Nicholas II.

A North Carolina man inherits 250,000 ancient Indian arrowheads.

Oregon brothers inherit from their gunsmith father a massive collection of historic military weapons dating back to the Revolutionary War.

Siblings inherit an entire company town in Pennsylvania.

A Virginia family passes down through the generations the bible Nat Turner carried on his bloody 1832 slave rebellion.