If you’ve ever watched the PBS series Antiques Roadshow, you know that some people have precious treasures hidden in plain sight. It’s amazing to see the priceless items that people have hidden in their attics, basements, and even on their walls; everything is a treasure waiting for the right person to arrive. These are some of the rarest and most valuable finds of all.

comic relief

In 2013, David González bought a dilapidated house in Elbow Lake, Minnesota. Gonzalez, a contractor by trade, immediately set about dismantling the interior walls of the building for repairs. When his mallet went through the drywall, he noticed it was lined with insulation paper, a common practice in the 1930s. A cartoon caught González’s eye among the torn newspaper. Turns out it was Action Comics No. 1, the first appearance of Superman, the holy grail of comics. A nearly mint condition copy of the comic sold at auction for over $2 million. The copy Gonzalez found was nowhere near mint, missing the last few pages and badly worn. It still sold for $175,000 at auction. Considering he paid $10,000 for the house, it’s safe to say he was cool with that.

Seven figure action figure

George Davis was a longtime employee of Hammer Galleries in Manhattan, and over the years, he bought a handful of antiques. When he passed away in late 2013, his relatives found a small, unadorned box in the attic of his upstate home. The box contained a small statuette that turned out to be worth a fortune. The doll was a Fabergé figure of an Imperial Russian commander from before World War I. The adornment of the uniform was made of real gold and the medals and badges were set in precious stones. It was originally commissioned by Tsar Nicholas II for his wife in 1912, purchased by an American industrialist and then finally by Mr. Davis in 1934 for $2,250. It was appraised at nearly $800,000, but sold for more than $5 million at auction.

They’re watching you boy

In 2015, Randy and Linda Guajiro were looking for antiques at a store in Fresno, California, when they found a box of old photographs. They looked through them, and though nothing caught their attention, a voice in Randy’s head told him to hold on to the dark tin photo of the young man holding a croquet mallet. The peasants paid $2 for three photos in total, including the tin one. Randy eventually took it to an American antiquities expert in the San Francisco Bay Area, who helped piece together the identity of the men in the photo. It is the only known photograph of Billy the Kid with his gang, the Regulators, making it a priceless piece of American history. The only other photo of the legendary outlaw sold at auction for $2.6 million. The value of this photo is set at $5 million because it shows the Kid with his gang, notorious Wild West legends in their own right.

The next time you’re rummaging through the trash in the attic, take a second look. You never know what you will find.