Billionaire Howard Hughes pulled it off for years: living in seclusion, sitting a top a pile of moolah. Want to channel that lifestyle without, say, experiencing the debilitating paranoia or utter insanity that Hughes eventually fell into? The country's most expensive one-bedroom apartments are prime for the picking.
Los Angeles (above)
9255 Doheny Road, #1805 [Sotheby's]
$2,650,000
Miami (above)
2201 Collins Avenue, #1029 [SFREA]
$2,200,000
Seattle (above)
2720 3rd Avenue, PH2 [Windermere]
$3,000,000
San Francisco (above)
1200 California Street, #25A [Gomez&Patton]
$2,895,000
New York (above)
781 Fifth Avenue, #1701 [Sotheby's]
$6,950,000
Chicago (above)
664 North Michigan Avenue, #31F [Prudential Rubloff]
$2,222,000
And of course, Las Vegas (above)
2000 North Fashion Show Drive, #6409 [Trump]
$1,529,000