I spent 8 hours in the world’s biggest mall in Dubai. It’s like an indoor city and has everything — an aquarium, an ice rink, and a Texas Roadhouse.

I spent 8 hours in the world’s biggest mall in Dubai. It’s like an indoor city and has everything — an aquarium, an ice rink, and a Texas Roadhouse.

Dubai does nothing by halves. The tallest building, the deepest pool, the most diamonds on a perfume bottle — you name it, Dubai's either set the record or plans to within the next few years. Its biggest mall is equally ambitious. Dubai Mall opened in 2008 and cost an estimated $20 million to build. The world's biggest mall by land area neighbors the world's tallest building — the Burj Khalifa — and covers more than 1 million square meters.