Results: Shop Til You Drop -- And Slide Down The 5-Floor Slide When You Do

Gone are the days when shopping malls were just places to shop. Now you can go on adrenaline-pumping rides, go skiing, play in a water park or even take in some art. These malls offer so much more than just shopping. First up, the biggest and most popular shopping mall in the U.S. without a doubt is The Mall Of America, in Bloomington, Minnesota. This shopping destination has 4.2 million square feet of retail space and contains 520 stores, 50 restaurants, a theme park, an escape room complex, a wedding chapel, a comedy club, a cinema, an aquarium, a miniature golf course, a wedding chapel and flight simulators. Have you ever visited this mall?

For sheer opulence in a very opulent city, the Mall of the Emirates in Dubai was the world's first ever shopping resort. The multi-level complex features around 630 international brands with total of 2,400,000 sq. feet of shopping space. This giant mall contains 1,200 retail stores and over a hundred restaurants in addition to a large selection of entertainment options. Some notable attractions include an indoor theme park, a children's entertainment center, a large movie theater and the Dubai Aquarium and Discovery Centre. But nothing can quite compare to the world-renowned Ski Dubai, the Middle East's first indoor ski resort and snow park inside the mall, with working snow, offering snowboarding, ski lessons, children's play area and cafe. It opened in November 2005 and houses the world's largest indoor snow park. Would you like to visit this mall?

If you're ever in Thailand you can visit the Siam Paragon for some retail therapy and culture all at the same time. This mall has a wide range of stores and restaurants, including even a Rolls Royce dealer, and contains an opera hall, a luxury hotel, an art gallery, an exhibition area, a movie theater, a bowling alley and, best of all, Siam Ocean World Aquarium. The Gourmet Market is a unique 8,000 square meter internationally oriented grocery store on the ground level of the shopping center. It carries a vast selection of top imported competing brands and foodstuff items from various nations in Europe, Japan, Korea, and Malaysia, as well as quality exotic brands such as those from Sri Lanka. Would you like to visit this mall?

The West Edmonton Mall, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, is the largest mall in North America and features the largest indoor water park in North America, with the largest indoor wave pool in the world. The mall has over 800 stores and services and parking for more than 20,000 vehicles. The mall also includes theme areas including: Bourbon Street (New Orleans-styled clubs and restaurants), Europa Boulevard, and Chinatown. The mall has a theme park called Galaxyland which a number of attractions including a roller coaster. In addition, the mall has an indoor lake, which is home to four sea lions and a replica of the Santa Maria. The mall also has a hotel, indoor shooting range, petting zoo, dinner theater, cinemas, four radio stations and an inter-dominational chapel. Have you ever been to this mall?

So many malls, so little time... Here are a few more extraordinary malls and their highlights. Have you been to any of these malls?