How to Build an Island Dream House With $15,000, 12,000 screws, and one blessing from a local chieftess, Alex Sheshunoff and Sarah Kalish built a dream house on oceanfront property in Palau. Photograph by Alex Sheshunoff
Everyone who has seen this photograph asks if the fish is real—it is. Steve Henry, a friend from England, caught this parrot fish off the rocks in front of our house using chunks of Spam for bait. —Alex Sheshunoff