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So where in America can you go and stay in a lighthouse, a tree house, a teepee, and underwater
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Well, that's what we're going to cover today. Today we're talking about the eight most unique, funkiest places in America that you can stay this year even
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So let's go ahead and dive in. really quick before we jump into it i've been getting a question a lot lately and it's something
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that i'm often asked over my you know 20 years of working in this industry and that is with so many
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travel websites available today how in the heck do i know which one to go to that's gonna really
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give me the best price that's gonna actually give me information i can trust that i can actually
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rely on. So what I've done is we've put together a free resource to help you to help, well, answer
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that question. If you'd like your copy, you can download it for free in the link below. Okay
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enough of that. Let's go ahead and get back into it. Alrighty. So since we, as I'm taping this
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right now, we are still in COVID. I'm in October, 2020. So we are still restricted to only staying
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within America for our immediate travel. Now, hopefully that will open up in 2021. But as we
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all know, every day changes and it may or may not open. So I wanted to give you some more options of
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things you can do in America so that you can stay in our country and be able to explore all of the
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really cool things that we have to offer. Because honestly, we could spend the rest of our days
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traveling America and still not see everything. So what I did is I did some research to find
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kind of some cool, unique, special places that you may not have even ever heard of
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and may not have even never stayed. Something to give you a little bit of a cool, funky, fresh place to stay
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as you're going on your vacations in the coming months if you are planning to stay in America
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Okay, before I jump into the actual places that I found, the specific resorts and places to stay
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I want to show you where I got it. So this is called QuirkyACom.com
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and this is where I got most of the ideas, but this is not the only place that I found it
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but this is where you can go to find kind of funky, quirky accommodations all over the world
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What I did is I narrowed it down to the United States and then just searched through here and
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found the ones that I thought were the most cool and interesting. But you can certainly
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I certainly did not, I'm not covering everything in here. So you can always go back to this website
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and find even more than what I found. I just pulled out the top eight that sounded the most
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unique and special, but there are certainly plenty more. Another place that you can go
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is to Airbnb. On the homepage, if you click this unique stays, you can narrow it down to special
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accommodations, interesting places such as boats, tree houses, huts, castles, all different kinds of
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things. And then again, you can narrow it to the country that you're interested in. So these are
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two of my favorite places to go to find kind of something special, something different than
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your average hotel. As you are traveling around our country, perhaps on a road trip, these are
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some great places to go to find the information. So on that note, let's go ahead and talk about the
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top eight places that I found that was really kind of cool that I want to show you. The first place
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I want to talk about is a teepee. So this is the Wigwam Motel. This is on the famous Route 66
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in California actually This is a part of the Route 66 that is in California So as you can see I going to scroll down here and show you this is actually what it originally looked like when it was first built in 1926 on Route 66 And it is known Route 66 if you never heard of it
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is known as the highway that led people to the West, led Americans to the West. And I believe
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it picks up in Illinois, in Chicago, and then comes all the way through to California. But if
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you are planning to take that road trip anytime in the next well forever this is a really cool
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funky place that you might want to stay. I don't have any pictures of the insides of the
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of the accommodations. It's pretty standard so it might not be a place you want to stay for a long
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time but if you come and stay at least a night it is a really neat place that you can say you got to
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stay in a teepee. All right the next place I want to talk to you about and this also is in California
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is the Featherbed Railroad, and this is a caboose bed and breakfast. As you can see
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it actually has it where you can stay in a caboose and stay inside of one of these. It's a very unique
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way to see the area. This one is actually located in Northern California near the wine country and
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also the lake country in Northern California. This is kind of a little bit of a view on the inside
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It's not going to be super fancy, but it is certainly a very special and unique place to stay
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So these are just a sampling of the type of rooms that they have so you can see what the insides look like
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This is, as I said, near the Northern California Winery and Lake Region, so there's plenty of outdoor activities to do
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So not only do you get to stay in a cool train and be able to stay in some place kind of fun and unique, they also feed you
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And from what I hear, the breakfast is pretty phenomenal. So the next time you're going through Northern California, be sure to stay at the Featherbed Railroad Bed and Breakfast
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Now let's move on to the other hat side of America over in New York
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And now this one is in the Catskills, and this is called the Roxbury
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Now there are actually two locations that they have. They have the Stratton Falls location, and they also have a motel location
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Now, what makes this special, as you can see from the photo, is it is everything, every room, every location is completely unique and fantastic in its own way
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These are what are considered the tower cottages. Now, these are in the Stratton Falls location in New York
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And these, as you can see from the photos, are actually really out of this world
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I can't find another way to explain it. As you can see here, you can stay in some pretty fantastic, incredible, quirky, just interesting places to stay
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Now, this is a place that you can come and probably spend several days exploring and just to be able to see all there is to see in your own accommodations, let alone all the things to see outside of the hotel and outside of the mansion
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So the Stratton Falls location has tower cottages, which are the photos I just showed you, but they also have mansion rooms
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Let me show you those. And these are just as funky as the others
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Each one is decorated completely differently, completely uniquely. And it's just an incredible place to stay within the mansion here at the Stratton Falls location
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They also have the motel location for the Roxbury and as you can see just as fantastic as everything else So even if you don want to stay in the mansion or in a cottage there some really fancy really interesting
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quirky places that you can stay in this resort as well. As always I'm going to go ahead and link
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all of these below so you can get more details on the location and how to make reservations but this
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is the next stop on our quirky top quirky places to stay in America. Okay moving on to staying on
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the east coast but going down to florida we are going to go undersea now this is in key largo and
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this is called jewels undersea lodge it is the only undersea lodge that you have to access via
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scuba diving so if you do not have your scuba divers certification you can get training and you
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can get certified and be able to go but if you've ever wanted to go scuba diving or you're an avid
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screwdriver, this might be the best place for you to stay. So it actually has underground lodging
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It's nothing particularly fancy, but if you want to stay underwater and be able to have a view out
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your window, such as this here, if you want to have a view out of your window of the fish and
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stuff in the morning, this might be the best place to stay. They even have nightly pizza delivery for
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you so they will actually bring the food down into into your lodging for you but you get in and out
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via scuba diving so this might be a really great place for you to go to say you spent the night
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underwater okay then next one i want to talk to you about is staying in a cave it is the beckham
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creek cave in the ozarks in arkansas and as you can see from the website here you literally stay
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inside of the cave and it is pretty magnificent i'm going to go ahead and scroll down and show
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you some more of the photos from inside. It's outfitted to be very modern as far as features go
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but it is a very, very unique stay where you can stay underground in the caves in the Ozarks. So
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it's pretty phenomenal. Here are just some more photos of the different places, living areas and
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things that you can stay, the outdoor features as you're exploring around in the cave. It is just
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magnificent. See here's some more photos, just some interesting places that you can stay. Here's the
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shower inside of the caves. It is just incredible. It's just kind of a funky, cool place. I believe
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this is considered a luxury place to stay, so it is going to be on the higher end of the
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cost spectrum, but if you're looking for something completely unique and special
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this just might fit the bill. All right, zipping back across the country to Oregon, this is the
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treehouse treesort yes tree houses with as you can see bridges going through the resort
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now again this is in Oregon they actually have as you can see the winter wonderland you can even
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stay here in the winter if you decide and these are just some out some views of the tree houses
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from the outside that you can see some different things that you can do different accommodations
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This one's located in Cave Junction, Oregon, and as you can see, there are some very specific activities they have, including treehouse zip lines, horseback riding, hiking, and so forth
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So for an outdoor lover this might be the perfect thing to do to be able to enjoy and stay in a treehouse and kind of get back in touch with your childlike play and wonder and stay at a treezort Now we going to zip back across the country back to New York and we going to talk about Execution Rocks Lighthouse Now this is only one of the lighthouse
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accommodations that I found on that quirky.com, and I believe Airbnb also has some lighthouses
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available, but I thought this one was particularly special because it is one of the historical
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lighthouses available. Some of the lighthouses I found were just recreations that people had built
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but this one's actually a historical lighthouse. It is also potentially haunted. As with anything
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haunted, you never 100% know, but there have been stories that this one may or may not be haunted
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So you can actually stay here. It is typically for adults only because you have to climb a ladder to
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get into where the lodging is, but this is someplace definitely historical and special and
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different and very, very cool. A place that you could say you stayed on your vacation
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Okay, and our final stop is a Shire. Yes, a Shire. As you can see from the photos, these are built almost exactly out of the Lord of the Rings trilogy kind of feel and Hobbit kind of feel
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Built into the side of the kind of, what, hills. And with Shire type of scenery and access, this is in Montana and is another fantastic place for you to go on your next vacation
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Now, before we wrap it up, I want to show you one more thing. Now, this is not having to do with a location, but this is an article I found from the Cond๏ฟฝ
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Nest Traveler that talks about the current travel restrictions in each state
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Some states are restricting access from outside states, depending on if you currently live
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in a place considered to be in a spike or in an outbreak
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So I want to go ahead and we'll link this below so that you can refer to this
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Now, this is dated as of October 2nd. If you are going later in the year, you're going to want to look for current situation
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because as you know, it is changing constantly. But if you're going anytime soon, these are the current situations state by state
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For instance, Alaska, you have to complete a declaration form. Hawaii, I know you have to quarantine for two weeks
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And then each state is listed in here depending on where you're going, what the current restrictions are
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So before you head out, make sure and actually before you plan your travel, make sure you're looking at something like this or on each state's direct COVID website so that you know what you might have to face if you're going to be crossing state lines and visiting someplace else this year
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All righty. So that wraps up the eight most kind of quirky, unique places that I found in America
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Now, again, this is only scratching the surface. There are so many other places that you can go
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looking on that corkiacom.com, which I will link below. Also looking at the Airbnb unique places
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but those are just two websites. There are so many other amazing, cool, funky
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unique places that you can stay in America. And so I encourage you to get out
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especially this year if you're traveling soon and you can't travel abroad. Let's dig into America
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There's so much to see and do that you can have a fantastic vacation
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even by staying pretty close to home. All righty. So if you are ready to plan your next vacation and you're ready to make those
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reservations, go ahead and take a look at this video here. These are our how to use Google hotels
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