Boasting more than 800 stores and over five million square feet of space - North America's largest shopping mall is like a city beneath a glass roof.
The West Edmonton Mall in Alberta, Canada, has parking for more than 20,000 vehicles, a water park, an amusement park and even an indoor forest.
The giant mall employs more than 23,000 people and receives 28.2 million visitors each year.
Giant: As well as 800 stores, the West Edmonton Mall in Canada boasts a huge water park, a cinema, and an ice skating rink
Fun time: People riding tubes get splashed and overturned by waves in the mall's water park. The huge building was the world's largest mall until 2004
Features: Visitors can take submarine rides in the mall's amusement park and take a stroll around its indoor forest. The site was opened in 1981
Fun: The mall even features a top class ice rink - seen here hosting an ice hockey game. Shoppers take tim eout to watch from sides of the rink
Waterslides at Canada's Biggest Mall
The mall was founded by the Ghermezian brothers - originally from Iran - and was the world's largest until 2004. The New South China Mall in Dongguan is now the biggest with nearly ten million square feet of shopping space.
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The West Edmonton Mall attracts up to 150,000 shoppers a day. It opened in 1981 and has been expanded three times since.
As well as the amusement park and water park, the mall also boasts an ice skating rink an indoor lake which contains a sea lion, movie theaters and a hotel.
It also has an underground aquarium that is home to more than 100 species of fish, sharks, sea turtles, penguins, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates.
Tropical: A bridge crosses a man-made lagoon flanked with palm trees in the middle of the shopping mall
Rides: Fair ground rides and rollercoasters inside the amusement park. The mall attracts up to 150,000 shoppers a day. It opened in 1981 and has been expanded three times since
Wildlife: Children stand by the penguin exhibit at Sea Life Caverns an underground aquarium that is home to more than 100 species of fish, sharks, sea turtles, penguins, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates