Stratocaster Jimi Hendrix

If you ever visit Seattle, a visit to the Museum of Pop Culture is definitely worth your time, as it houses the legendary white Stratocaster Jimi Hendrix used during his Woodstock performance. The guitar in question was purchased for a cool $2 million by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Allen, who died in 2018, was an avid guitarist and collector — Quincy Jones stated Allen could play "just like" Jimi Hendrix, who had inspired him.

While Allen understandably wanted to play the guitar used in perhaps the most iconic moment in rock guitar history, his motivation for purchasing it appeared to be more altruistic – the guitar held special significance to him, as it had inspired his lifelong love affair with guitar, and as such, he purchased it so that it could be displayed at MoPOP so that everyone could see it and hopefully be inspired as he had been. Allen was purchasing a physical representation of Jimi Hendrix's legacy and laying it out for the world to see and experience.

Price: $2 million