Bored of spending your holidays in the same run-off-the-mill hotels over and over? Try sleeping in somewhere new next time. For instance, in a coffin, on the top of a tree, an igloo… Name any bizarre place you’ve always wanted to sleep in. It surely is in this list.

10. KAKSLAUTTANEN HOTEL. Nordkap, Finland

Also known as the Igloo Village. Guests are acommodated into real igloos. There two types: heated igloos and those with no heating at all for hardcore adventurers.

Amenities include darkness and ice, basically? Yes, but also a swimming pool so cold nobody would dare swimming into, a snow restaurant (rebuilt every winter) and, thank’s god, the best and biggest sauna you can imagine. Have a virtual tour at its website.

9. UTTER INN. Stockholm, Sweden

This is a typical Swedish small-red house only it’s floating on Lake Malaren, in Stockholm. It was designed by a local artist.

The Utter Inn has only one bedroom and it is underwater, so you can literally sleep with the fishes. The windows of the room allows beautiful views of the depths of the lake.

8. DASPARKHOTEL. Ottensheim, Austria.

Here you sleep in drain pipes randomly set in the middle of a park, as the hotel’s name suggests. From outside nobody would dare saying that bunch of concrete pipes are sleeping places, but the inside doesn’t look as bad as it sounds.

All the pipes contain a double bed, blankets, storage, lamps… Other amenities such as toilet and cafe are located nearby.

But here’s the really good thing about this lodging option: you pay as much as you wish. All details here.

7. THE CAPSULE HOTEL. The Hague, The Netherlands

Spaceships from a 50s Martial invasion B-movie? Not really. Originally they were pods for oil rig workers, but now they have been turned into accommodation devices appropriately named Capsules. A bit crammed, but this bright orange rooms have all basic amenities including hammocks.

6. WHITEPOD. Cerniers, Switzerland

This accommodation option should be heaven for eco-tourists. Located at the heart of the Swiss Alps (1700 m), the Whitepod experience could be defined as a bubble in the middle of nature.

Strange mix of bubble, iglo and tent, the 15 available Whitepods are facing Dents-du-midi, a natural spot of frightening beauty and close enough to virgin-snow ski pistes.

Ski lovers, adventure-seekers and those enjoying wild nature will love it.

5. HOTELL HACKSPETT. Västeras, Sweden

As its name suggests (Woodpecket Hotel), this is like living in a bird house. Literally. Set on the top of a tree 13 meters high, the Hackspett is not only one of the smallest hotels in the world, but also one of the most inaccessible.

Lodging is available for only one person or a couple and to access you must be fit enough to climb the rope ladder.

If you manage to reach it, the hotel offers amazing views of the gorgeous park where it is located.

Any room service? Of course: meals are delivered with a basket and a pulley.

4. HOTEL SILKEN PUERTA AMÉRICA. Madrid, Spain

Arty 5-star hotel designed as a meeting point of different cultures and architecture styles. The idea was to gather 19 of the best architecs and avant-garde artists in the world, let each one design a floor and see what happens.

The result is like inhabiting a parallel universe: tubular walls, Picassian furniture, Oriental minimalism, entire diamond-shaped floors, rooms resembling Star Trekk’s spaceships, round beds,…

To name one, Jean Nouvel’s floor made of black-watered pools is something that must be seen to be believed. Make your reservation here.

3. HEMP HOTEL. Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The definite lodging for marihuana lovers. Everything in this small 5-room hotel is made of hemp. From curtains to shampoo. Meals are composed of hemp too: hemp ice cream, hemp beer, etc.

The Hemp Hotel’s rooms are themed and the atmosphere is relaxed, very relaxed.

Plus it is locaded near the Heineken Brewery, so the party never ends.

2. PROPELLER ISLAND CITY LODGE. Berlin, Germany

In the Propeller each room is different and they all rival each other in extravagance. Tube-shaped rooms, a barn-room, potato sacks included, flying beds (in the picture), plastic-bag toilets, newspaper-wallpapered rooms…

But maybe the jewel in the crown is the room with coffins instead of beds. You can even close the lids to make it more real. Or maybe the one with cage beds suspended on stilts, I’m not sure.

1. ICE HOTEL. Jukkasjarvi, Sweden

Well, this is a classic. The world-famous first and largest hotel made only of ice and snow. The Ice Hotel lasts as much as the Arctic winter does. It is melted by the late April sun and rebuilt once again in autumn.

Artists from different countries meet here every year to rebuild this master work of art and design with loads of imagination and very hard physical work.

Such display of extreme architecture and craftwork has attracted tourists from all the corners of the world to a place, the Arctic Circle, otherwise only visited by danger lovers and wannabe explorers.

This year the Ice Hotel is celebrating its 20th anniversary.

Photo coffin beds by Sterin
Photo dasparkhotel by _foam
Photo Capsule Hotel by drhenkenstein
Photo Whitepod by LeBenLeBen
Photo Hackspett Hotell by Nina Hellman
Photo Hotel Puerta América by dj.frat
Photo flying bed by johnwilliamsphd
Photo Ice Hotel by MarsuMic