By: Kathie Chu

13 years ago, Uri Geller bought an island. The 75-year-old, famed for his televised magic tricks and controversial claims to psychic powers, purchased Lamb Island off the North Berwick in 2009. Now it is its own country. “Lamb is a place like no other,” says Geller from his home in Old Jaffa, Israel. He added, “and it deserves its own identity. This is a fitting way to do it.” He is now offering citizenship of the Island for just $1 and has said all profits will be donated to Save a Child’s Heart (SACH), an Israel-based charity that cares for children around the world with heart conditions. Citizenship of the island, which is currently uninhabited by humans, will be a “symbolic status.” According to the BBC, “Lamb Island is not the first so-called micronation – there have been dozens declared dating as far back as the 19th Century, some serious, many not.”

Lamb also has the possibility of treasure. According to the Scottish-born investigator Jeff Nisbet, Lamb has inexplicable similarities with the pyramids of Giza. Nisbet pointed to the layout of Lamb and the two islands on either side, which he said mirrors exactly that of the three pyramids. The pyramids’ own precise geometric design has long been a source of fascination for mathematicians and Egyptologists. As Lamb is a part of a protected area, excavations are out of the question. There is also evidence to support the theory that the infamous North Berwick witchcraft trials in the 1590s were there.