Must-See Video: Dubai’s Islands of the World

Since its resurrection in the late nineties, Dubai City has risen to great heights—literally. The city’s towering landscape, which boasts the world’s only seven-star hotel and tallest indoor ski slope, is the fastest-growing in the world, a phoenix rising from what was once just a desert. As this video from Current TV shows, the city’s developers have now set their sights on recreating  entire countries. Take a look at the incredible world being built off the coast of the “Las Vegas of the Middle East.”