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.