If you're anything like me, you binged Netflix's Outer Banks in what felt like world record setting time. Outer Banks was like if a modern day Indiana Jones movie starred exclusively Hollister models. The Pogues, as we endearingly learn to call the main characters, spend their summer looking for the treasure of the Royal Merchant shipwreck. The Netflix show, while making me feel miserably single, also awakened my sense of adventure and I quickly began researching the treasure for myself.

The Royal Merchant, as it turns out, did not exist - well, sort of. There was a real English ship named The Merchant Royal that was said to carry gold and silver on board, and this boat also did sink but not in the Carolinas. The Merchant Royal met it's fate in that late 1600s and has never been seen again, despite many attempts by treasure hunters to discover it's bounty.

But maybe, just maybe, all it takes is a nosey Pogue to dig around to unearth long buried secrets. Check out these other hidden and lost treasures to fill your adventurous void while we await the return of Outer Banks in season two:

We may not have twenty years like John B's father to dedicate to researching lost treasure, but an afternoon of web surfing may satisfy your treasure hunting urges. If that doesn't quite do the trick for you, there are actual shipwrecks you can dive and tour on the Outer Banks in North Carolina. At these wrecks you won't find treasure, but maybe you can find a John B or JJ of your own. Happy hunting!