Do you want to bring a whimsical touch to your trip? Choose original activities and unusual accommodations unknown to tourists. Here are 10 so off the beaten track destinations that one of them will lead you up a tree.

1. Sleeping in an oil rig survival capsule in The Hague (Netherlands)

In The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Roger Moore adapted himself very well to his survival capsule. You also take your ease in one of the orange capsules failed in The Hague. Built in 1972, the capsules have a diameter of 4.25 m and are equipped with chemical toilets. They are not distinguished by their luxury, but inside, told several designers and artists, declines a different theme each season.
Capsule survival oil rig, Netherlands

2. Spend the night in a crane at the hotel Haven ran (Netherlands)

It's just a hotel in a harbor crane. Nothing, however rudimentary, development being contrary to the luxurious. No need to expose it to rain to climb the ladder: the Iron Lady is equipped with two elevators. The seats of Charles Eames, light and audiovisual are remote and the bed has a panoramic view. The crane located on the Wadden Sea, near Harlingen, the view is stunning. Better yet, climb a small ladder to the cockpit to choose your view: a lever allows you to turn 65 tons of steel 360 degrees.
Haven ran, Netherlands

3. Sit in a sphere with a view (Canada)

New Age claptrap aside, the Free Spirit Spheres, spheres of looking like a UFO perched in trees are really accommodations. Floating in the foliage, similar to the eyeballs, they are cedar, environmentalists and feature a wooden staircase maintained by stays. Suspended, they move in the wind - and your weight. The sphere Eryn, equipped with a small kitchen, can accommodate three sleepers; Eve, smaller, allows two people to have their ease.
Free Spirit Spheres, Canada

4. Traveling in a caravan in the British Isles

Find your roots by performing a rustic trip in an old trailer on the back roads of England or Ireland. Do you not have an ancestor among the Travellers? Whatever, if you have a nomadic spirit. The trailers seem to time the picturesque interior can sleep two to four people (cramped). After being introduced to your horse and received some instructions, you will be delivered to you and the slow pace of your friends in shod hooves.
Irish Gypsy

5. Contemplating the sunset Salt Palace (Bolivia)

The Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, is one of the largest salt deserts in the world. It covers 64 km2 to 3656 m above sea level in the mountains, geysers and colonies of flamingos. In the rainy season, it becomes a salt lake. In the center, the Palacio de Sal, a hotel built of salt blocks, we joined not by boat but by 4x4. Facilities are austere, the deafening silence, stunning sunsets. Here horizon point, the sky merges with the lake. The only visible mark in the mist created by the white expanse is the Isla de Pescadores, with its thousands of giant cacti.
6. Camping on a raft in the Netherlands or Belgium
Camper on land is for campers in miniature. Camping on a raft, that's camping. It is to accept the harshness of nature. The cabins, tent-shaped, are placed on floating barrels. It is reached only by canoe, equipped with everything necessary for the stay. No electricity, no running water. The toilets consist of a bucket as you go empty on another raft, canoe always. The rafts are anchored in idyllic places on the lakes of the Netherlands or Belgium.

7. Skating on the lake of Klagenfurt (Austria)

How? You've never heard of Klagenfurt? Yet it is the sixth largest city in Austria, a capital of Carinthia. It is a picturesque town with a light atmosphere, Italian. It is located on the eastern shore of Lake Wörth, the largest and warmest Alpine. In winter you can skate for 120 km on the Weissensee, this "white lake" that freezes the coldest of the year. In the distance skaters look like small mobile punctuation.
Weissensee, Austria
8. Staying in the TV tower in Rotterdam, Netherlands
Further proof that this is the Netherlands found the most staggered hotels! This tower built for television in the 1960s is now home to a brewery and two panoramic suites named "Heaven" (heaven) and "Stars" (stars). The Heaven overlooks the harbor, while the Stars, equipped with a Jacuzzi, overlooking the city. Minimalist luxury with lots of bright white and some colored notes. If staying in this tower seems too common, you can abseil - or zipline - 100 m that separate you from the ground floor. If the altitude does not scare you, take Euroscope to the top of the tower, which rises to 185 m.

9. Think outside the box in the desert of Mauritania

Mauritania is a misunderstood country twice as big as France, inhabited by only 3 million people and 75% covered by desert. Its climate ranges from warm to hot. If you like the desolate Sahara of sand dunes, endless beaches without a soul in sight and the streets invaded by sand, you will not find better. Mauritania also has the longest train in the world (about 2.5 km), linking Nouadhibou, in the Northwest, the Northeast iron mines. There is only one car for passengers - but you can ride free in the ore cars. Otherwise, travel is here synonymous with adventure in the wilderness, shaken in pickup trucks on unpaved roads, we see horses galloping in the night and we share the mint tea with fishermen.
Mauritanian desert

10. Discover the North Korean secret

Expensive, hard to get, full of forbidden zones, beset by economic difficulties, the electricity restrictions, dotted with buildings and giant soulless monuments to the deceased Kim Il-sung, North Korea n ' is not a common destination for holidays. But this bastion of communism is the most secretive countries in the world, which is reason enough to visit it. Do not explore freely hope: you will be accompanied at all times by two guides diligent government and responsible for giving you the official version of history. It is a journey into another world where the Cold War is not over