At one point, Cage owned 15 residences across the world, including homes in California and Las Vegas and a deserted island in the Bahamas. He also bought a series of more bizarre items, including a nine-foot-tall burial tomb, an octopus, shrunken pygmy heads, a $150,000 Superman comic and a 70-million-year-old dinosaur skull, which he later had to return to the Mongolian government.

What really put Cage in the red financially weren't the eccentric items, however, but his overstuffed real estate portfolio. "What is an octopus, $80? You're not going to go into dire straits buying an octopus," he told the New York Times during a recent interview.

The Neidstein castle near Etzelwang, southern Germany, owned by Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage. He reportedly paid $2.6 million for the pied-a-terre, which dates back to the 16th century.

Cage went through a period where all he was "doing was meditating three times a day and reading books on philosophy" and found himself seeking out the places he had studied and read about.