The series about unconventional inheritances open with the story of cousins who found hundreds of uncirculated 1909 baseball cards in the attic of their great-grandfather's house, which they'd inherited.
Two obscure actors inherit a million-dollar Illinois farm from a fan they're never met.
A millionaire's children inherit 3000 classic cars.
A man leaves a 300-year-old Stradivarius cello to his daughters, with instructions to sell it to a young maestro. However, they may make more by selling it to the highest bidder.
A man inherits what's said to be a counterfeit 1913 Liberty nickel.
A man inherits guns used by Bonnie and Clyde in their final shoot-out. He decides to auction them off, but learns that doing so may not be legal.
An 8-year-old boy inherits his father's wine-making business.
Grandchildren inherit a salvage yard, filled with hundreds of pre-1940s cars.
A family inherits a museum that features the world's largest private bug collection, which is worth millions.
Letters from John F. Kennedy to the mother of a sailor killed on PT-109, which was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer in 1943, are inherited.
A Jersey Shore family's hopes to rebuild their ice-cream shop, which was left in ruin by Hurricane Sandy, rest on the value of thousands of mint-condition comic books from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.
Roy Orbison's sons discover a song, that their dad never released, on a homemade cassette.
A family inherits a landmark on the highway to Las Vegas: a decrepit 134-foot thermometer that's adjacent to a once-lucrative restaurant.
A woman inherits her dad's collection of Civil War artifacts, which include a bullet-riddled tree stump from one of the war's bloodiest battles.
The story of the great-great grandson of Confederate Gen. George Pickett, who was swindled out of his inheritance of Civil War artifacts.
A real-estate developer's children discover that the furniture, he used in model homes, was made by a world-renowned craftsman.
A young woman inherits her grandfather's movie theater.
A map inherits a map of Texas, that turns out to have valuable historical significance.
A Montana cowboy inherits a ranch with a hidden fortune.
A Florida woman inherits a struggling wildlife sanctuary from her husband.
A farmer leaves his family with a large collection of tractors, after his death.
A woman inherits 72 portraits of American Indians who took part in the Battle of the Little Big Horn, including one of the man who claimed to have killed Gen. Custer.
Children fight for control of their roadside-attraction inheritance: an alligator and crocodile ranch.
A doll collection that includes 500 never-opened, vintage Barbie dolls, is inherited.
A century-old amusement park is inherited.
A taxidermist leaves his sons his business, hundreds of stuffed beasts and some Hollywood props.
A millionaire leaves his kids a fleet of 240 military vehicles.
A widow hopes to prove that the signed photo, of baseball legend Shoeless Joe Jackson, she inherited is the real deal.
A Nevada prospector's wife leaves a man an old gold mine, but the bequeath digs up trouble, when he's sued by her niece.
An unlikely family passes George Washington's wallet down through the generations.
A prolific autograph hunter leaves his collection to a surprised heir.
A frontier fort and antique guns are inherited.
A lawyer receives exotic artwork from a mysterious client.
A treasure hunter's children inherit a 17th-century Spanish wreck.
Jamie Colby tours the house that architect Pietro Belluschi built in the 1940s, which was restored by his son.
A holocaust survivor's secret diary spurs his daughter to search for his art collection, which was looted by the Nazis.
"It's painstaking work. It's so accurate you can see the pain on the faces of some of the soldiers on their way to the ground." Jamie Colby admires the artistry of Orson Munn's toy soldier collection, which is one of the biggest in the world with over 10,000 pieces.
A holocaust survivor leaves behind a secret diary, and its stunning revelations serve as a spur to his daughter to search for his Nazi-looted art.
A woman inherits her soul mate's astronomical valuable space collection and a romantic surprise.
A woman inherits a log cabin from her grandfather.
A collection of automobiles, made by companies that no longer exist, is inherited.
A chunk of carved wood in a basement turns out to be a valuable architectural treasure from the early days of Washington, D.C.
A family inherits the tombstone of Lee Harvey Oswald.
The great grandniece of an 1860 center fielder inherits his Pre-Civil War baseball card.
A co-creator of The Simpsons (1989) leaves his dog to its trainer; a woman leaves her house to her parrot.
A man inherits shackles worn by anti-slavery crusader John Brown, as he mounted the gallows.
Andrew Green, the ancestor of the Green family on Monday's episode, took down Boss Tweed, the infamous leader of Tammany Hall.
"When you've got giant lumber piles to crawl on it's a lot more fun, probably not as safe, but it's a lot more fun than going... on a swing set." Hannah Hargrover grew up playing on her father's junkyard and then grew up to run it! Would you return home to save your family's business?
A woman refuses to sell her home to a developer, who builds a shopping mall around it.
Children find in the mother's attic boxes full of priceless photographic prints made by the early masters in the field.
The Season 3 premiere features a log-splitting mallet believed to have been owned by a young Abe Lincoln.
A family feud erupts over ownership of "Conan the Barbarian" illustrator Frank Frazetta's art.
A U.S. Mint worker bequeaths a bag of change to his son, which includes a one-of-a-kind aluminum penny that rocks the coin-collecting world.
A Pan Am stewardess from the airlines' golden age leaves her niece a valuable collection of ancient beads she gathered in her travels.
Descendants of James Naismith inherit the two pages upon which he first typed up the rules of basketball.
Family members ponder what to do with a 1950s "Jurassic Park" the family patriarch built in Oregon.
A world-class blade maker (and one-time Unabomber suspect) leaves his brother thousands of hatchets, axes, swords and knives.
The great-great grandson of a legendary Texas painter discovers a long-forgotten mural in the rafters of the family's attic.
A rancher discovers she has inherited one of the world's largest sites of ancient Indian rock drawings.
A man inherits a collection of 80,000 autographs that his obsessive father and aunt had collected since they were children.
Jane Austen's five-times great grandniece auctions off the legendary romantic writer's ring to an American pop star.
A Louisiana man inherits an armada of scale-model warships his father painstakingly built from original blueprints.
Brothers inherit their boss's 60-year-old puppet opera, a Chicago institution, and agree to destroy it if the opera goes out of business.
A grieving widow watches a previous Strange Inheritance toy soldier episode, then invites Jamie to assess her late husband's huge collection.
Shocked brothers learn they are heirs to an art fortune stolen by Hitler during World War II and vow to get it back.
An old vaudeville performer in a traveling chimp act leaves her granddaughter dozens of captive primates.
The daughter of a world-famous baby photographer inherits 100,000 dazzling portraits from the 40s, 50s and 60s.
A cell tower mogul hoards three million pounds of scrap, leaving his heirs to deal with a forty-acre heap.
A father leaves his son stacks of ancient magic texts, some containing secrets magicians have guarded for centuries.
A homeless man dies mysteriously and leaves his cousins several storage units with contents reportedly worth $1 million.
A Pennsylvania man inherits hundreds of paintings by celebrities, from Ringo Starr and Bob Dylan to John Gotti and Adolf Hitler.
A pioneer's descendent inherits his never-worn 1893 Levis, called a denim collector's "Holy Grail."
A life-long roller derby fan inherits a massive stash of memorabilia from one of the sport's legendary skaters.
A man cleaning out his basement finds a forgotten masterpiece left behind by a distant uncle.
High-tech forensics suggest a family heirloom is the only photo of the outlaw Jesse James with the man who killed him.
A renowned tile artist leaves his sons 160 autobiographical murals, weighing 16 thousand pounds.
Children inherit a massive B17 Bomber their father bought after WWII, flew to Oregon and placed atop his 48-pump gas station.
Designer famous for his best- and worst-dressed lists leaves his agent a rack of gowns he created for Hollywood's biggest stars.
After their mother dies, sons discover that the painting from their New Jersey dining room is a long-lost Rembrandt.
A Virginia family passes down through the generations the bible Nat Turner carried on his bloody 1832 slave rebellion.
Siblings inherit an entire company town in Pennsylvania.
Oregon brothers inherit from their gunsmith father a massive collection of historic military weapons dating back to the Revolutionary War.
A North Carolina man inherits 250,000 ancient Indian arrowheads.
A magician's wife inherits a jewel-encrusted pin said to have been bestowed on Harry Houdini by Czar Nicholas II.
A Vietnam vet leaves his son a mint-condition 1967 Stingray he obtained upon returning from combat.
A woman's life changes when she inherits from her godmother 70 boxes of museum-worthy historic dresses.
Daughter inherits her father's million-dollar cache of Colt revolvers from the Old West, including a rare 1876 Buntline Special.
New York woman inherits a priceless set of cymbals that famed Italian composer Giacomo Puccini had custom-made for his final opera.
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.
Texas man leaves his family a massive model railway that he spent $1 million to build.
Idaho farmer meticulously restores classic cars in his barn, and leaves them to his children.
Artist's daughter inherits hundreds of priceless hand-made masks of famous figures from the 1930's and 40's.
Heirs feud over 20 acres of elaborate tunnels, rooms and gardens dug by hand by their uncle, who emigrated from Sicily in 1906.
Legendary Texas sheriff leaves his heirs Bonnie Parker's ring, recovered after his shootout with the Bonnie & Clyde gang.
Family inherits 200,000 pieces of jewelry worn in classic Hollywood movies.
Retired school teacher inherits a French Chateau that had been moved to New Jersey and filled with 19th-century furnishings from a Vanderbilt mansion.
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 1930s.
Cousins inherit oyster beds farmed by their family for a century, and are inspired to revive the dormant business.
Drag-racing champion leaves his son the car he designed to set the world speed record.
Son of NASA chaplain inherits more than a hundred bibles that went to the moon.
After their father dies, sons discover a fake wall in his home that's hiding a Norman Rockwell painting worth millions.
California man inherits a natural wonder theme park filled with bizarre trees, including 12 growing from a single trunk.
A Florida man inherits the house where agents gunned down Ma Barker and her son in the longest shootout in FBI history.
A Houston man inherits a luxury train car custom made for the legendary politician behind the world's first indoor stadium.