Strange hotels, unusual

(CNN) - Wary of blowing your travel budget on another characterless hotel room? Hoping for a trip with a certain 'je ne sais quoi'?

What dreams are made of: Artist duo L/B's hotel sits atop the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.

Check out these weird and wonderful hotels to ensure a touch of travel sparkle, even when the purse strings have been tightened.

A must for aviation enthusiasts, the Jumbo hostel is the first aircraft in the world to be converted into a hotel.

The former Pan American Boeing 747 parked near Arlanda Airport in Stockholm, Sweden holds 25 rooms, each with a bunk bed, an overhead luggage compartment and a flat-screen TV.

It opened for business in January charging $43 (350 SEK) a night for dorm beds to $410 (3300 SEK) a night for the best room on the plane - the cockpit.

A night in a converted drain pipe (perhaps unsurprisingly) also comes cheap. Visitors to Dasparkhotel in Ottensheim, Austria pay as much as they want to stay in one of three converted pipes and they get a verdant park a step from their circular doorstep.

Run by a quirky couple who themselves sleep in a old double-decker bus, the Controversy Hotel in Hoogwoud, Netherlands offers a train carriage and tram cars to sleep in. The train carriage has a Jacuzzi in the shape of a sombrero, a bed shaped like a row boat and a music system with 70s and 80s music.

Hostel Celica is a renovated prison turned into a hostel in the center of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Guests can sleep in one of the 20 artistically renovated former cells with bars on the door and on the window.

A stay at the Shady Dell trailer park in Bisbee, Arizona, USA, is a step back into the 1950s. Expect leopard carpets, martini glasses, vintage radios playing a 1950s line up and televisions broadcasting in two colors. There's also a diner on site.

Every year, Canada's Hotel de Glace in Quebec, Canada is re-carved using 500 tons of ice and 15, 000 tons of snow. The current manifestation has 36 rooms, a chapel, nightclub, saunas and a bar that serves cocktails in ice glasses.

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