Dubailand

Behold Dubailand, a three-billion-square-foot outdoor oasis from Tatweer (a government-owned real-estate investment firm) that improbably marries animatronic dinosaurs with a Tiger Woods–branded golf resort and the world's largest water park (with man-made beach and reef, of course).

Best of the Strange: Falcon City of Wonders features lifelike reconstructions of the Pyramids, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Eiffel Tower, Taj Mahal, and Tower of Pisa.