8 Strange Hotel Suites

1. The Shack-Up Inn, Clarksdale, Mississippi. These former sharecropper shacks ain’t the Ritz. You’re lucky if the AC and door handles work. They’re shabby and dusty but rock in attitude.

2. The Dog Bark Inn, Cottonwood, Idaho. This giant beagle-shaped hotel room is 30 feet tall, 12 feet wide and 36 feet long, enough for four adults. Kids can sleep in the dog’s nose. The tail houses a full bathroom.

3. The Mine Suite at Sala Silvermine, Vdstmanland County, Sweden. This underground cavern, 500 feet beneath the Earth’s surface, has posh furnishings, but the walls, ceiling and floor are solid black rock and temperatures hover around 38 degrees F.

4. Madonna Inn, San Luis Obispo, California. This caveman room is above ground, decked out with animal prints, a rock pond, stone-age clubs and a waterfall in the cavern-style bathroom.

5. Nine Hours Hotel, Kyoto, Japan. Guests in pod-like rooms have seven hours to sleep, one to shower and one to relax before they’re kicked out.

6. The Melody Sphere at Free Spirit Spheres, Vancouver Island, Canada. The orb-shaped fiberglass rooms hang suspended from wires in the trees of Vancouver’s rainforest. Traverse a suspension bridge and climb stairs around the tree to enter.

7. The Hardwood Suite at Palms Casino Resort, Las Vegas. This two-story, 10,000-square-foot suite accommodates 350 and includes a basketball court, scoreboard and locker room, six-seat wet bar, dance floor and pool table.

8. The Champagne Tower by Cleopatra at Cove Haven Resort, Lakeville, Pennsylvania. Take a bubble bath in a seven-foot-tall cocktail-glass-shaped tub, then sprawl on an oversized, circular bed or swim in the private heart-shaped pool.