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Dubai’s incredible fireworks display. Photo credit: “Dubai NYE 2014” © 2014 by Gabriela Purri R. Gomes (CC BY 2.0)

Everyone knows about the spectacular New Year’s celebration held annually in Times Square, with its world-famous Ball drop and celebrity performers. Perhaps less known stateside, but still quite an epic international tourist attraction, is the dazzling fireworks display in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. Because of the sheer number of people who travel to the country just for the event, hotel rates skyrocket as high as the fireworks that are shot into the air. Read more here.