If you had so much money you didn't know what to do with it, I guess you'd build yourself an island. Or heck, maybe you'd save the children. Here are five of the strangest man-made islands in the world.
It's not like they don't have the land, there is desert as far as the eye can see in Dubai, but it's ocean-front they want, so they built an island with as much beach as possible. Laid out like a palm tree with a road driving up the trunk to the flash Atlantis The Palm resort at the top, hotels and condos have been built on the fronds.
This trash island is British eco architect Richart Sowa's dream. Built in 2007 and powered by solar panels with a composting toilet, it's his second floating island after the first one was destroyed by a hurricane in 2005. He collected bottles, cans, plastic, wood and used that as a platform layered with earth and more trash "like a lasagne". For 50 pesos you can tour his tiny island and two-story house surrounded by garden and beaches that hold the whole thing together in a lagoon off the Cancun coastline.
