22 Insanely Luxurious Things You'll See in Dubai

#1. Bugati Taxi

#2. One-of-a-Kind Hotels

The Burj Al Arab is the only 7-Star Hotel on the planet. You need reservations just to walk around the grounds.

#3. Supercar Traffic Jams

If you're going to be gridlocked for an hour, you might as well do it in style.

#4. Gold SUV

The license plate should say OVRCMPNS8N!

#5. Doublewide Jeeps

See previous caption. LOL.

#6. Skyscrapers

For being in such a homophobic part of the world, they sure erect a ton of penis-shaped buildings!

#7. Lamborghini Cop Cars

This lambo goes from 0 to "Five-O" in 1.6 seconds.

#8. Amphibious Cars

TheCrown Prince of Dubai,His HighnessSheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has reportedly ordered no fewer than six James Bond-style high-speed amphibious cars, which he is able to drive across both sand and water.

#9. Palm Islands

Just when you think you've seen the most obnoxiously luxurious thing you've ever seen, you see an island shaped like a giant palm tree covered in luxury homes.

#10. The 1200-Dollar Cupcake

This cupcake from Bloomsbury cupcake shopin theDubai Mall is wrapped in 23 carats of edible gold. If that's not baller, I don't know what is.

#11. Endless Construction

Due to an ever expanding metropolis, 1 out of every 5 cranes in the world are located in Dubai.

#12. Luxurious First Class Flights

A first class suite on Emirates Airlines gets you cush leather seats that recline into a bed, a sliding door for privacy, a shower stocked with a selection of Bvlgari toiletries, 2,000 TV and movie channels, complimentary door-to-door chauffeur service, and access to the A380 Onboard Lounge, a private cocktail lounge with its own dedicated bartender. How much does this cost? Only $30,000 for a round trip ticket from LAX to Dubai!

#13. The World's Biggest Fish Tank

The world's largest acrylic panel aquarium in the world's largest shopping center, The Dubai Mall.

#14. Ski Dubai

This indoor ski resort located in the Dubai Mall features slopes, jumps and a colony of both king and gentoo penguins.

#15. Expats

Approximately 85% of the population in the UAE is foreign.The majority come from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh in order to work in the still-booming real estate market.

#16. Superbus

The Superbus is a prototype high speed electric coach-like limo car that is capable of carrying 23 passengers at speeds of up to 250 kilometres per hour (160 mph) on specially designed segregated highway lanes.

#17. Pets of people in Dubai

This is the only place on Earth where pets are something extravagant, for the richest people tend to have tigers, lions, leopards and cheetahs as pets.

#18. Celebrities

Dubai is the place to say "Du-hi" to some of the biggest names in entertainment. Like Tom Cruise here, pictured at the top of the Burj Khalifa during the filming of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol.

#19. Shark Slide

Oh, just your usual 100-foot high Mesopotamian-styled ziggurat temple featuring a water slide that catapults you into a clear tube through a shark-filled lagoon. NBD.

#20. Robotic Camel Jockeys

You read that right. As a result of thousands of years of human rights violations, robot jockeys are commonly used in camel racing as a replacement for humans.