No man is an island, but if you've got enough money you can buy one from Nakheel. The developer is best known for constructing man-made islands that, when finished, will add more than 600 miles of coastline to Dubai. The first island, shaped like a palm tree and called Palm Jumeirah, will be home to private villas, mansions, luxury apartment towers, and a 60-story Trump hotel. Nakheel is building two other palm-shaped islands, a 300-island archipelago called The World (shaped to mimic the continents), and more than a dozen other large-scale developments across Dubai. Nakheel is populating the projects with hotels, restaurants, and shopping malls that it will also manage. The Dubai government controls Nakheel.