No need to settle for a boring, featureless hotel room on your next trip – traveling can be as much about where you stay as the places you go! There’s a hotel out there to satisfy most every curiosity – whether you’re into marine life, wildlife, or Eskimo life – but we’ve narrowed the choices down to ten stand-out properties ranging from low-cost to luxe. So say goodbye to so-so lodging and catch your zzz’s in one of our favorite unique hotels. Pick from a 1950s freighter jet, a former prison cell, a treetop lodge, a onetime royal haunt, and more.
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