The world’s most expensive private island that we could locate is Niihau, Hawaii. The island is referred to as ‘the forbidden island’ and is Hawaii’s smallest inhabited island.

There are roughly 250 residents of the 72 square mile island who live without roads, hotels, restaurants and electricity.

The island is a native Hawaiian preserve and it is the only island in the state where the primary language is still Hawaiian.

Niihau is owned by the Robinson family of Kaua’i and is estimated to be worth $100 million USD.

Kuhn Studio has officially unveiled the first Kuhn-Bösendorfer grand piano in its Winston-Salem, N.C. gallery.

The $1.2 million piano claims to be the most expensive new limited edition piano currently available.

The stunning 7’4″ black Kuhn-Bösendorfer piano (along with its matching bench) is inset with as many as 100-thousand hand cut, lead crystal jewels arranged in a glittering array of diamond patterns on the case, lid, legs and fallboard.

A Quebec City man with a love of hockey and history claims to have a hockey stick that dates back to the mid-17th century.

However, historians suspect the one-metre long stick was simply crafted out of a very old piece of birch wood.

Bobby Rouillard, who lives in the suburb of Boischatel, will be showing off the stick at a pond hockey tournament this weekend. Then, he says, he will put it on eBay at a starting price of $1 million.

The stilettos are designed by Bruno Frisoni, the creative director of the French luxury cobblers. They were unveiled during the Paris Haute Couture season this week.

They feature an assortment of life’s little luxuries such as 24 ct gold-coated mesh, semi-precious stones, jet, satin ribbons, silk chiffon, diamanté and crocodile skin fashioned into dainty rosettes.

The “Dovima”, an 11cm, spike-heeled confection of gilded silk mesh and jewels, is embellished with a pair of rose pink-dyed, taxidermy birds with gold and crystal heads.

A shop in Thailand replaced the sand in an hourglass with diamonds, 10,000 carats of them.

Before you go booking you ticket to Thailand, we should mention that the price tag on the world’s most expensive hourglass is a messy $6,400,000.

If you drop and break that one, plenty of people will help you clean up ^_^

Michael Marcovici has created an artwork worth a billion dollars, out of a billion dollars.

In the words of the artist “One Billion Dollars is stacked on 12 standard pallets, altogether 10 Million 100 USD Notes. One Billion Dollar is not so much about what you see but what you could do or not do with the money. Besides this it is the most expensive piece of art ever made.”

The final product is nothing exceptional except that one can see real hard cash stacked up together in one place. According to Artbase, there is a strategy currently being employed to physically realise this project…