Here's part 13 of FORTUNE's "Believe It or Not" investment gallery -- some of the most unconventional investments of all time:
Bookstore baron Louis Borders was among investors who took a bath on doomed online grocer Webvan, which raised $375 million in its 1999 IPO, then lost nearly a billion before going bankrupt in 2001.
No matter how you look at it, losing a billion dollars is a big ouch for even the very, very wealthy.
Click here to read part 14 of this series.
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