This restaurant has just moved to the top of my “bucket list”!

World’s first ever undersea restaurant called Ithaa was opened at the Maldives Hilton Resort & Spa. Dine 5 metres below sea level at the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island’s unique underwater restaurant. Marvel at 360� views of reef and marine life, sip champagne cocktails and sample Maldivian-Western fusion cuisine at this spectacular Maldives restaurant – the world’s only aquarium-style restaurant.

This would truly be an amazing experience.  The restaurant only seats 12 people, formal attire is required, they only accept cash and children are only allowed at lunchtime.

All restaurant managers say they are looking for something different.  What a dream job this would be!

Near a beach that’s within Manuel Antonio National Park in Costa Rica, the Hotel Costa Verde doesn’t lack for great sights. But few are as amazing as its own 727 Fuselage Suite, a salvaged 1965 Boeing 727-100 that looks as if it’s crashed into the Costa Rican jungle (it’s actually mounted atop a 50-foot pillar and reached via a spiral staircase). The jet’s interior was once able to hold up to 125 passengers, but there are few reminders left of its days in the service of South African Airways and Colombia’s Avianca Airlines. The suite’s two bedrooms, dining area, and sitting room are now covered over entirely in teak to match the surroundings. Guests can play “spot the toucan” on the small wood deck that sits on top of the right wing.

I would love to stay at this hotel.  Costa Rica was one of my all time favorite vacations.  It was the kind of vacation that makes you rethink priorities and can alter your future.  Rainforests, volcanoes, farmers plowing fields on the side of the mountain with matched oxen, banana farms, ocean – it has everything.  Now is has an airplane as a hotel!  I’ve gotta go back soon!

Colored bright-orange for easy visibility, the ’70s-era escape pods that make up the Capsule Hotel once hung outside oil rigs, ready to be deployed in case of an evacuation. Recycled by self-proclaimed “garbage architect” Denis Oudendijk, the fleet of pods now rotates among different moorings in the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe. At the moment, two are in the western Dutch town of Vlissingen and another is in The Hague. For a kind of James Bond-meets-Barbarella twist, opt to book your pod with a disco ball and all the spy’s movies on DVD. It’s a super-kitschy nod to a similar pod’s appearance in “The Spy Who Loved Me.”

I love out of the way, out of the ordinary vacation spots … but where’s the bar and the pool?  Do they even have a restaurant?