7. Canadian Vikings
Place: Canada’s Newfoundland
Year Found: 1960
Approximate Value: $70,000–$80,000*
The well-known tale of the Vikings’ failure to subjugate North America is well-known, but what if someone found their nearest-ever post to Canada? In the L’Anse aux Meadows, on the northernmost tip of Canada’s Newfoundland, an outpost from the eleventh century was found.
Canada’s Vikings
Remarkably, artifacts and architectural relics from the outpost attested to its historical significance as the earliest European settlement in North America. Even though the structures appeared to have been used for a long time, Indigenous people were probably the reason they were abandoned.