What's the favorite non-equipment thing you've received or seen as loot? I've had fun reading the UE table, which has "gold and mithral baby rattle- 500 gp", "platinum baby rattle- 1000 gp", as well as an "ethereal tapestry" and impossible objects like a mithril Penrose triangle and am adamantine devil's fork all being more valuable than a god's breath. I haven't actually had occasion to use them, but the image of a great wyrm red dragon having a hoard entirely of baby rattles or an adventurer being told that the solidified breath of Norgorber, laden with secrets beyond mortal imagining, isn't valuable enough to buy back his family's tapestry Uncle Ben put in hock is just excellent.
My favorite vendor trash loot that I've actually used was probably the giant hoard of copper that required the players to figure out how to haul it all and who to sell it to, as well as the sugar-free not-Haribo gummi tigers that gave the druid severe diarrhea.
The poor innocent gold-plated door in an abandoned pyramid that we, the horrible gold-thristy pcs, totally spent half an hour peeling gold flakes off of.
For 60gp worth of profit.
Good days.
A solid gold toilet found in a popular Adventure Path.
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The UE table was great!
In general, I like goods that can be used for crafting purposes. Dragonhide is a classic, but my loot tables also include monstrous spider silk, wyroot, unicorn horn, demon blood, and astral essence.
Alcohol is also lots of fun. I have fond memories of a few bottles of elven Veblen Wine. We sold most of it (I think they approached 1000gp per bottle) but held onto one for after we defeated the BBEG.
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500 head of cattle. That's 25,000 gold value. More if you actually make a business out of it.
But OH THE LOGISTICS!
It had no value on its own, but in Wrath of the Righteous there was a pickled imp in a jar listed as treasure.
It made me laugh.