Inside Airport Lost & Found

Travelers are reunited with lost treasures, including an expensive pair of vintage Air Jordans, sweaty boxing gear, and a beloved stuffed animal. In Tampa, the K9 unit is called in to ensure an abandoned bag does not contain explosives, and in Norfolk, the airport's auction of lost items, including a van converted into a mobile barber shop, raises nearly $55,000.

A lone diamond from grandma’s ring is lost at Pittsburgh’s airport by a young bride. Lost-and-found workers at Tampa International desperately try to find the owner of a fanny pack as it contains much-needed medication and $3,000 in cash. Travelers to a comic convention in Salt Lake City leave behind peculiar objects, including unique fan art acquired at the site.

Airport workers reunite travelers with their missing items, including a sentimental 40th-anniversary gift and a wallet brimming with $1,500 in cash. A man breaks into a song of gratitude when his two laptops are returned to him. Agents in Denver discover a bag packed with rotting fish and put on their detective hats to hunt for the owner of a jewelry box full of treasures.

Airport Lost and Found workers reunite travelers with a dog who wiggled out of his leash upon arrival and wandered the airport grounds for a week, a collection of vintage tennis rackets belonging to a pro tennis player, a purse containing over a hundred dollars in cash, a backpack brimming with lifesaving prescription medicine, a child’s beloved stuffed panda bear, and a full Army uniform.

Determined airport workers across the country strive to reunite passengers with a curious assortment of lost items, including a prosthetic eye, an espresso machine, a $5000 Gucci bag and a family’s beloved heirloom gold Rolex watch. At Philadelphia’s International Airport, experts from the zoo arrive with an assortment of animals to help travelers combat the phenomenon known as "airport brain."

An intrepid team of investigators in Denver and Salt Lake City reunites travelers with lost items such as a priceless Native American regalia, a taxidermied rat, a high school wrestling state championship ring, and a fanny pack with a wallet, passport and government IDs. Plus, we head down south to visit Unclaimed Baggage, a store brimming with a plethora of lost airport items shoppers can buy.