Most people who dream of buying their own island probably never get around to it. But Brendon Grimshaw did. In 1962, a British newspaper editor bought a nearly deserted scrap of land in the Seychelles called Moyenne Island for £8,000, a price often translated today to around $10,000 to $11,000, according to a report by All That's Interesting.
There was no electricity on the island and no running water, and according to the same report, there were only four trees left standing on it. Grimshaw spent the next 46 years transforming the barren plot into what is today widely recognized as the world's smallest national park.
