These days, travel to any town and you’re sure to see an Applebee’s, a Ruby Tuesday’s or an Olive Garden. But what do you do when you want to dine somewhere a little less routine?Well here is a list of the most unusual places to eat.

1.Ithaa — which means “pearl

Ithaa, which means pearl in Dhivehi, is the world’s premier mostly acrylic undersea restaurant, secured five metres below sea level, at the Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa (soon to be the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island) in Rangalifinolhu, Maldives. The five-by-nine meter restaurant has a capacity of 14 people and is encased in R-Cast™ acrylic which is a transparent acrylic roof offering 270° based in panoramic view to its customers. The restaurant was designed and constructed by M.J. Murphy Ltd. - a design consultancyNew Zealand - and was opened on April 15, 2005. Meals range in cost from US$120.00 (lunch for hotel guests on Full Board meal plan)  to US$250.00 (dinner for hotel guests on Bed & Breakfast meal plan)

Ithaa’s entrance is a spiral staircase in a thatched pavilion at the end of a jetty. The tsunami which followed the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake topped out at 0.3m below the staircase entrance, and caused no damage to the restaurant.

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2.Toilet Themed Restaurant (Matong)

Imagine, if you will, a restaurant in which the seat you sit on and the bowl you eat out of are…toilet bowls. (I know–I’d rather not, either.) The brainchild of a financial whiz who used to sell ice cream in tiny commodes instead of cones, the Marton Theme Restaurant (”matong” means toilet) in Taiwan not only exists but flourishes. Hey, think of it this way, you can eat your lunch and lose your lunch all in the same place! Blech!

3. Linger Lodge

Eatery: Linger Lodge
Location: Bradenton, Fla.

What Makes It Unique:
With menu items like “Bag-N-Gag,” “Chunk O’ Skunk” and “Swirl of Squirrel,” it’s no wonder that Al Roker named it one of the top five weirdest restaurants in the country. If you’re a fan of taxidermy, you’ll love the decor. Stuffed dead animals reign supreme.

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 4.Dine in the Dark

Dans le Noir? London is following the same successful track as Dans le Noir? Paris restaurant which celebrates its second birthday with nearly 100,000 visitors.
Dans le Noir? London is located in the trendy area of Clerkenwell on 30-31 Clerkenwell Green.

The dark room seats sixty people. Dans le Noir? also has a lit bar and a lounge allowing a nice cocktail before and after dinner.Dine in the Dark According to the Website, it offers “a unique human and sensory experience of a dinner in the pitch dark.” The dark room (in London) seats sixty people. Dans le Noir? also has a lit bar and a lounge allowing a cocktail before and after dinner.

 5.Ice Hotel

ICEHOTEL is situated in the village Jukkasjärvi, 200 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle in Sweden. The heart and backbone is the River Torne flowing freely through the unspoilt wilderness. Covered with a meter thick ice layer winter time the river is the source of all our art, architecture and design. The pure water and the steady movement of the river creates the clearest ice possible.

6.Dine With Gangsters

Dine With Gangsters Step into this “speakeasy” and you’ll be transported back to the Roaring Twenties complete with gangsters, flappers, silent movies and hooch. If you go, expect a police raid — the audience becomes part of the dinner theater action.

7.Body Sushi

Two words: body sushi or “nyotaimori” — the practice of eating sashimi or sushi from the body of a woman. However, at Hadaka Sushi, guests can choose either a female or male “serving dish.” And don’t worry the food is served on banana leaves and never touches the model’s skin.

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