In the middle of the desert Dubai is a modern, air-conditioned, artificial and over-the-top city. Though it is known for luxury shopping, modern architecture and a lively nightlife scene but there is much more of it to see than just a tourist attraction. You will find never-ending development of innovative and over-the-top projects and almost 24% of all cranes are located here.

All these facts make Dubai an unique city and 7 of the crazy facts are mentioned below:

1) You’ll probably meet only one Emiratis as most of them like to keep to themselves and away from the main tourist drag. Most tourist might meet only one local i.e., where they stamped their passport in the airport. If you want to know more about them then you can visit to Sheikh Mohammed Museum of Cultural Understanding – which is a brilliant initiative to connects the holidaymakers with Emirati people for cooking lessons, traditional dinners and heritage tours. Actually, Emirati nationals are outnumbered by expats by 15% to 85% respectively.

2) The interior of Burj Al Arab is decorated with around 1,790 square meters of 24-carat gold leaf. Just enough to cover 46,265 Mona Lisa paintings.

3) Though Burj Khalifa which peaks at 828 meters the world’s tallest residential skyscraper and the ludicrously big Dubai Fountains are the tallest in the world but Dubai can’t claim them because its Princess Tower (413 meters, in Dubai Marina) and King Fahd’s Fountain, in Saudi Arabia claim as the highest and biggest respectively.

4) As Dubai loves gold, so there are ATMs in the city where it dispenses anything from a 2.5-grams, 24-karat gold coin to a one-ounce gold bar. Every 10 min., the price of the gold gets updated by the computer inside the vending machines to line with real-time fluctuations in the market. If you visit the Sharaf DG store at the Times Square Centre mall you can also buy a laptop, tablet, camera or phone straight from a vending machine.

5) To impress the tourist and showing how classy their city is they use super cars like Ferrari FF, Lamborghini Aventador, McLaren, Bugatti Veyron, Bentleys and an Aston Martin One-77. The cost of the cars are more the cost of sending a child to the most expensive college in USA. Apart from this, the Dubai police also has its own band of bagpipers who perform at state events.

6) Camel racing in Dubai is a very popular sport. As per the size of the camel only children can take part in the race. But there was some problem of child trafficking regarding it, so they replace it with child-sized robots.

7) Dubai use to have no standard address system until recently. Instead there was a space where residents could draw a map or write out specific instructions such as: “After you pass the white mosque, it’s the second street to the right, green door.” In 2015 Dubai started Makani numbers (a unique 10-digit code) to all buildings as address.