306 Unique Hotels in North America - Page 16.

They say crime doesn’t pay. Well, if prisons were like this, ‘they’ might have to eat their words. This 19th-century prison was renovated by modern architects and designers working with historians and conservationists to create a unique space guaranteed to impress. Before you arrive, Liberty’s ‘luggage liaison’ team will have …

Stanley Kubrick borrowed its face for a horror classic. Jack Nicholson swung an axe at its door. And yet Timberline Lodge, perched at 6,000 feet on the shoulder of Oregon's Mount Hood, somehow remains one of the most welcoming places in the Pacific Northwest. Here is the strange alchemy of …

Unusual? Yes. Unique? Possibly. Most hotels are made from bricks and cement or concrete and steel, this one is made from ice and snow. Skilled ice artisans (or should that be icetisans?) build the hotel every winter slightly differently each time. If you want to volunteer to help them, apply …

The Gladstone Hotel was first opened in 1889 and is the oldest hotel in Toronto. Starting out life as a luxury accommodation for the privileged classes, it was then owned and operated by a lively widow and her 13 children. The hotel eventually fell into disrepair until it became known …

At Yotel, you get to spend the night in a luxury yacht cabin while having all the advantages of being in London, New York, or Amsterdam. Seasickness will not be a problem here, Captain! Each tiny room is a triumph of design. The queen-sized beds are retractable, and some rooms …

The Verana Spa is carved into the lush jungle overlooking a beach that sits like a blessing next to the lazy ocean. Designed by Hollywood set designers, your sense of adventure is tingled from the moment the jungle parts to reveal the ‘primitive chic’ spa (you may want to play …