This indoor ski resort has a mountain contained inside a mall.

Billed as the "largest natural flower garden in the world" this Middle Eastern show field has little competition at 45 million flowers.

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

On any given day this sprawling market houses literally tons of government-regulated gold, gems, and precious metals.

The other side is actually green.

World's largest film studio, where visitors tour the decaying sets that litter the harsh desert environment.

One of the most spectacular canyons in the world.

God's Saharan sandbox of wrath.

This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.

A series of waterfalls so massive they straddle the border of Argentina and Brazil.

This tiny uninhabited islet off the coast of Norfolk Island was formed by blowing sand from nearby dunes.

A beautiful hike through national parks, forests and beaches in Western Australia.

An engineering masterpiece, or “Scheme of Madness?”

Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.

This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.

This Australian beach is composed of tiny shells.

Living fossils in this remote Australian bay provide a glimpse of what Earth may have looked like 3.5 billion years ago.

The oldest known university in the world is in Fez, Morocco.