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24 Unusual Sites to Spend a Night
These aren’t your average bed-and-breakfasts.
If regular hotels and bed-and-breakfasts have begun to bore you, look no further than these one-of-a-kind lodgings around the world. Animal lovers can spend the night in a brown bear sanctuary, and book lovers can occupy a bookstore or a library for their slumbers. Giant potatoes, treehouses, and wine casks all present themselves as potential cozy vacation spots.
Depending on your particular concept of comfort, you could sleep in a former jail, a decommissioned ferry, or an old train; amidst ice or underwater; atop a 50-foot tower, down a thousand-foot-deep mine, atop a crane, or dangling off a cliff. And for the truly adventurous, why not try the hotel in Belgium that takes the form of a huge sculpture of a human colon?
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