Discover New Worlds and Empires: Most Interesting Parks From Pole to Pole

Amusement Park Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi.

An employee and a boy in the laboratory of a hospital in the Kidzaniya game training park in Moscow.

Australian cricketer Nathan Bracken (L-without top) and fielding coach Mike Young (L-obscured) dive in the "Cage of Death" for an up-close experience with an 80-year-old crocodile named Chopper (R) at the Crocosaurus Cove in Darwin on August 31, 2008. The Australian team was relaxing in preparation for its second one-day international against Bangladesh on September 3.

Guests ride in a modified excavator bucket during a preview day at Diggerland, USA, on Thursday, May 22, 2014, in West Berlin, N.J. The theme park is said to be the first theme park of its kind in the U.S., though many of its plans are based on similar parks in the United Kingdom.

An exterior view of Hogwarts is seen during the "Wizarding World of Harry Potter Opening" press preview at Universal Studios Hollywood in Studio City, California, on April 6, 2016.

A dinosaur figure in the Yurkin Park Travelamusement park in Kazan.

Amusement park in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

The Hand of God. Jaime Duque Park, Bogotá, Colombia.

This picture, taken on March 26, 2010, shows dwarves during a performance at "Dwarf Empire," a popular attraction at a theme park in southwestern Yunnan province. The "empire" – part of a butterfly park – has quickly become the site's focal experience thanks to the popularity of the dwarf performances, which would likely evoke howls of protest in the West as an exploitative freak show.

Visitors enjoy sunny weather at the 58 meter (190 ft) high chairoplane on top of a former cooling tower in Kalkar, Germany, on Monday, August 13, 2012. A family fun fair park, built at a former fast breeder reactor plant, invites kids and adults to ride on this chairoplane inside the cooling tower. The power plant never delivered energy. It was later sold to Dutch investor Hennie van der Most who finally built this fun fair.

Suoi Tien Cultural Theme Park in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Salina Turda - a salt mine in Turda, Romania.

Sculpture Park Love Land on the island of Jeju, South Korea.

People pass by the entrance of Bollywood Park as they arrive for the opening of Legoland Dubai, part of the larger Dubai Parks & Resorts project, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Oct. 27, 2016. A massive complex of amusement parks in the southern deserts of Dubai has opened its first park, a Legoland complete with models of the sheikhdom's architectural wonders.