Video games will finally get the kind of museum treatment typically awarded to other forms of visual art.
Texas will open a Texas-sized entertainment district.
And everyone's favorite, Hello Kitty, will finally take a stab at Mickey Mouse with her own lavish theme park.
Each of these multi-million dollar projects will have a major impact on local tourism, and every one of them is sure to make headlines in the coming months.
Hello Kitty Park in Zhejiang Province, China
Opening date: January, 2015
This joint venture between Japan's Sanrio Corporation and China's Zhejiang New Insight Leisure Tourism Development opened to Hello Kitty's adoring fans on New Year's Day.
The new attraction includes 11 themed facilities, such as performance venues, amusement rides, a luxury resort and even a grand mahjong hall.
It is the first Hello Kitty theme park outside of the cartoon's native Japan and is expected to attract up to one million visitors per year.
National Videogame Arcade, Nottingham
Opening date: March 2015
Billed as "the world's first cultural center for gaming," the forthcoming National Videogame Arcade will be a hub for video game culture, with public programs, educational outreach, archives, themed galleries and interactive exhibitions spread across a five-floor building in Nottingham's Creative Quarter.
The compound will house more than 12,000 objects, and aims to "inspire and develop the game-makers of tomorrow."
Grand Texas Sports & Entertainment District, New Caney, Texas
Opening date: Spring 2015
The first components of a massive new amusement zone 30 miles northeast of Houston, Texas -- including a motorsports park, sports complex and water park -- are expected to open to the public in the spring of 2015.
The 640-acre district will eventually house seven Texas-themed attractions in total, including a shopping and entertainment complex, a multi-use event center, concert venues, a wakeboarding lake, equestrian trails, a hospitality village and the Grand Texas Amusement Park.
Opening date: Late 2015
Blues fans will have a good reason to smile next year when the National Blues Museum opens to the public in downtown St Louis.
Backed by everyone from blues legend Buddy Guy to actor John Goodman, the complex will contain 16,000 square feet of interactive exhibition space, a 100-seat theater and a robust calendar of public programming.
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Opening date: June 2015
The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art will finally move into its first permanent home in 2015.
Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas helped transform a Soviet-era pavilion in Gorky Park into a 58,000-square-foot art compound that will display some of the best contemporary works from Russia and beyond.
Eternity Passage, Beijing
Opening date: Summer 2015
Eternity Passage claims it will be China's first hi-tech amusement park, weaving Chinese history with "technological fantasy" across two large zones (one indoor and the other open air).
The theme park is currently under construction just outside of the Chinese capital, on the route to the Great Wall, and will be part of Beijing Outlets World, a complex with outlet shopping, resort hotels and a conference center.
Opening date: Fall 2015
Halfway between the Pyramids of Giza and the modern city of Cairo lies an $800 million compound that will soon be home to 100,000 ancient artifacts spanning more than 7,000 years of history.
The Grand Egyptian Museum will become the world's largest archeological institution when it opens in the fall, and includes a conference center, training center and several archeology workshops.
Its biggest draw card will no doubt be the display of more than 3,500 artifacts belonging to the famous King Tutankhamen.
National Gallery Singapore
Opening date: November 2015
The 689,000-square-foot National Gallery will be the largest visual arts venue in Southeast Asia when it opens in the heart of Singapore's Civic District next year with a collection of regional art spanning from the 19th century to present day.
The opening is timed to coincide with Singapore's Golden Jubilee, and marks a fresh attempt by the city-state to position itself as an international hub of the arts.
Funtasy Island, Riau Islands, Indonesia
Opening date: Late 2015
Developers are billing this $240 million, 740-acre amusement zone just off the coast of Singapore in Indonesia's Riau Islands as "the world's largest eco-theme park."
Eight key "eco-zones" under construction include a multi-sensory rainforest, land- and river-based safaris, snorkel and scuba zones, an interactive dolphin habitat and an aquarium where you can swim with whale sharks.
Louvre Abu Dhabi (U.A.E.)
Opening date: December 2015
The oil-rich emirate of Abu Dhabi paid an astounding $525 million just to be associated with the Louvre brand, along with another $747 million for art loans and managerial advice.
Add to the price tag the cost of the building, about $100 million, and you've got yourself one of the most expensive cultural institutions ever conceived.
Inside the domed structure, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Jean Nouvel, will be 65,000 square feet of permanent installations and 22,000 square feet more set aside for temporary exhibits.
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