Unusual Life

Dog Bark Park Inn is a bed & breakfast guesthouse inside the World’s Biggest Beagle. Guests enter the body of the beagle from a private 2nd story deck. Some of the dog’s decorative furnishings are carvings by Dog Bark Park chainsaw artists Dennis & Frances. Inside and up another level to the head of the dog is a loft room with additional sleeping space plus a cozy alcove in the muzzle.

At Dog Bark Park Inn sleeping in the doghouse is a good thing!

Dog Park Inn

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• HAPPY VALENTINES DAY •

• Here’s a very red room we stayed in last August at The Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo, California. They named it the Tack Room. I had red leather wall covering, red leather bedspreads, red stained wood walls, pink marble pedestal sinks, and lots more red stuff.
I wonder who’s staying there this Valentines Day?

• See our full set of photos from the extraordinary Madonna Inn

• The Madonna Inn has 109 unique theme rooms where you can stay, as well as multiple odd over-the-top dining environments. You can/should see photos of all 109 rooms here.
Click "Tour Our Rooms Online" at the top right, and then the "Next " button under the photos to tour through each room.

No explanation,no location, just pictures of weird hotel rooms.

Via Sellsius:

The Woodpecker Hotel in Vasteras, Sweden is perched 43 feet up a 130 year old oak tree like a lone nest. It’s the creation of Mikael Genberg, who also designed the Otter Inn, a hotel which floats on Lake Malaren.

More strange accommodations on Unusual Hotels of the World.

Eve’s Garden is an organic Bed and Breakfast and Ecology Resource Center, located in the high mountain desert of West Texas, at the gateway to Big Bend National Park, in Marathon, Texas. It features a research level organic gardening demonstration site and an urban hacienda, combining to provide a comfortable Bed and Breakfast environment and a conversational forum to address issues regarding the ecology.

Treehouse lodging slideshow

One-time Russian gangster Nikolai Sutyagin’s home is certainly unusual. The eccentric former convict’s seemingly accidental 15-year project begun in 1992 stands 13 floors, 144 feet high. He claims he was only intending to build a two-story house - larger than those of his neighbours to reflect his position as the city’s richest man.

Read the story here.

This boat, made from a plane, reminiscent of a mobile home gone houseboat, has a rich history as a Boeing 307 Stratoliner from the 1930’s and historic connections to an unlikely pair of characters, Howard Hughes and Jimmy Buffett. Read more about Desdemona’s Rocket Ship / The Cosmic Muffin here.

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Unusual accommodations in Austria lacking the customary European charm. But extra points for creativity…

Sewer Pipe Dream Hotel: Pay-As-You-Wish, from sellsius°

Quote from Best Places to Stay in Hawaii “This is one of the more unusual places to stay I have ever seen…If you want a bit of mystery and imagination in your vacation, and little stories lying in wait around every corner, you’ll appreciate it here. It’s enchanting, rather like you’d expect a hobbit’s house to be.”

The Hobbit House is located on the The Big Island in a breathtaking setting above Waiohinu Village. Lush landscaping and tropical forests surrounding the estate offer quiet privacy and is not far from the sightseeing wonders of Volcanoes National Park and the bountiful sights and flavors of Kailua and Hilo.

Hobbit House is located 60 miles, about a 1 1/2 hour drive, from the Kona and Hilo airports and 1/2 mile up a jeep trail away from the highway noise.

Hawaii Hobbit House

A capsule hotel is a hotel system of extremely dense occupancy in Japan. A guest room is truly just a human “capsule” providing room to sleep and little more, although facilities usually include a television and other electronic entertainment. These capsules are then grouped and stacked, two units high. Luggage is usually stored in a locker away from the capsule. Privacy is maintained by a curtain at the open end of the capsule but noise pollution can be high. Washing facilities are communal and there are often restaurants, or at least vending machines, and other entertainment facilities.

This style of hotel accommodation was developed in Japan and has not gained acceptance outside of the country. The Japanese capsule hotels vary widely in size, some having only fifty or so capsules and others over 700, and are often male only. Clothes and shoes are exchanged for a robe and slippers on entry. The benefit of these hotels is convenience, and price, usually around $25 a night.

The first capsule hotel was the Capsule Inn Osaka, designed by Kurokawa Kisho and located in the Umeda district of Osaka. It opened on February 1, 1979.

Capsule Hotels

Yes, I can use chopsticks

Tokyo on one cliche a day….

The Aurora Ice Museum is the largest year-round ice environment in the world. It is created from over 1,000 tons of ice and snow, all harvested at Chena Hot Springs. Climb an Ice Tower, curl up in a Polar Bear Bed, watch a game of life size chess, or pull up a stool at the Stoli Ice Bar and have a martini pour through a sculpted ice fish into your very own sculpted ice glass.

The Ice Museum is located right outside Fairbanks, AK.

Chena Hot Springs Ice Museum

Chena Hot Springs is also the site of a “Wedding Chapel”. Can you imagine your guests reaction to getting married in a glorified igloo? How cool. The Museum and Stoli Ice Bar and altar