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Would You Stay in Any of These Hotels?

It must be that time of the year, when news outlets break out lists like "world's strangest" in order to pass the slow months. This week, CNN is leading the pack with a nice wrapup of nine (why not ten?) funky properties around the globe in "Strange Hotels, Unusual Places." Some have been covered to death, like the Hotel Everland capsule in Paris and any ice hotel, but we always love a good list and this one does bear a few pleasant surprises.

Although we remember having seen it on a design blog in the past, Dasparkhotel in Austria has been laying low for a hotel made out of repurposed segments of drainpipe. If you're game to stay out in the woods in a length of pipe, we recommend thinking of it as something like the wine barrel hotel rooms, just with a more urban history.

In terms of new discoveries, CNN's list happily introduces us to The Shady Dell vintage trailerpark in Arizona, near the Mexico border. While they aren't exacly retro-cool airstreams, they are the next best thing for indulging your fantasies of a 1950s family vacation.

Also added to our list of must-go places is the Harlingon Harbour Crane Hotel near Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Just as the hotel name implies, $400 a nights gives access to and a bed inside of the pilothouse of an old crane, which still functions just enough to allow you to turn it any way you want, chasing the best scenery if you so desire. It's plain to see that they've got our attention, as we're down for anything even slightly off the wall. Now if only artist Carsten Höller would do another hotel room installation in the Guggenheim, we'd be some literal happy campers.

[Photo: CNN]