Why is there a question mark in the top right corner of finder window?

just noticed this today, what does it mean?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/60782625@N08/5681554895/
when i click on it it says " the item can not be found" what item?
thanks for your help.

This just happened to me. Help.
There was a mounted disk image on the desktop. I used to command-drag these to the drive so that it would copy as a whole folder. I just did that in Mountain Lion. But a folder was nowhere to be found. I forgot about it and just ejected the disk image.
Now I see there is a question mark at the right of every Finder window. I can't seem to remove it.
EDIT: I googled for the answer and found it. It can be removed by first right-clicking to "Customize Toolbar". Then drag it off and poof..
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