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//**World's**// most bizarre restaurants

The Clinic - Singapore
If you're looking to sit in a wheelchair, eat out of a surgical pan and drink your beverage from an I.V. drip, then [|The Clinic] is definitely where you want to go. As you can imagine, the theme in The Clinic is all things hospital related. Downstairs you'll find bars, a dance club and a merchandise store, while upstairs those who want to experience The Clinic's avant guard menu can dine in the "hospital chic" environment, complete with syringes, drips and pills.

Dans le Noir - Paris, London, Moscow
This restaurant phenomenon is becoming increasingly more popular around the world, so why not take perhaps the most food-centric holiday and up the sensitiviy factor by dining in pitch black. The owners are the kind that consider eating to be more pleasurable and satisfying when done in complete darkness, without the abilty to see. They do say that when you "lose" one sens the others become heightened, right? So that's what they are going for here. With a staff made up of primarily blind and visually-impaired workers, they're dedicated to the theme. Granted the meal could get a bit messy, but it's all part of the sensual experience.

The Dolce & Gabbana Gold Restaurant - Milan, Italy
You have a velvet chairs, hand carved silverware and the finest china money can buy, so, of course, you don't want to eat a meal on it. Where do you go? Why a restaurant with an entirely gold interior! Yes, the infamous fashion duo Dolce & Gabbana opened this opulent eatery— [|Dolce & Gabbana Gold] —last year and it has continued to be a marking of luxury ever since. The restaurant launched at the same time as the gold D&G Motorola RAZR phone, and each had it's fair share of hype. Luckily, the restaurant lived up to the sassy, often over the top reputation of Dolce & Gabbana and it's been a big success.

ICEHOTEL - Jukkasjärvi, Sweden
The hotel [|ICEHOTEL]offers award winning accommodation, restaurants and entertainment. For a unique dining experience, you can either eat in the ICEHOTEL restaurant, which serves dishes on plates of ice, or The Old Homestead Restaurant which sits about 800 meters from the ICEHOTEL overlooking the Torne river. They specialize in more warm, homely fare and the building is actually a historic log home from 1768.

The Château d'Esclimont - St Symphorien le Château, France.
You'll definitely feel like royalty at [|The Chateau Esclimont], which sits on a 150-acre estate just under and hour outside of Paris. Besides a slew of activities—horse back riding, tennis, helicopter/hot air ballon rides through the French countryside—this castle also boasts a dining hall that can seat 200 people.

Dinner in the Sky - Belgium
[|Dinner in the Sky] is hoisted high above the ground by a crane. It let's you dine in elegance from just about anywhere as long as you pay for the movable sky-high restaurant to get there. The company is based in Belgium.

Hilton Maldives Resort Spa - Rangali Islands
There will be plenty of fish surrounding you at the [|Ithaa]restaurant of the [|Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa.] The restaurant sits just 15 feet below the Indian Ocean's surface, and before you submerge for dinner you can enjoy a nice cocktail in the bar above.

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