San Francisco treasure hunt ends after lucky winner finds $10,001 prize in unlikely location

A treasure hunt that consumed San Francisco for nearly a month ended Tuesday after a hunter unearthed a box stuffed with $10,001 in cash.

The hunt was titled “Buried Treasure, San Francisco,” but its organizers never actually hid the cash inside city limits. Searchers spent three weeks digging up local parks while the chest sat across the Golden Gate Strait in a Marin Headlands cave.