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New hotels are popping up all over the world, and many make it their mission to be as uniform as possible, so that guests feel at home wherever in the world they may be.
However, some of the most unique new hotels are those that have a little bit of history behind them.
Each of the following 11 hotels have been transformed from factories, jails, or offices. Some have kept with the theme of the building's former life, but a couple have made the space unrecognizable.
Here are 11 historic buildings in which you can book a room right now.
The Press Hotel in Portland, Maine
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The Press Hotel used to be home to the Portland Press Herald, one of Maine's biggest newspapers. When a hotel developer bought the space in 2009, he turned it into the boutique hotel it is today.
Luckily, they kept with the newspaper theme, keeping many of the building's historical elements, using furniture and décor inspired by typewriters and printing presses, and hiding playful newsroom references all around the hotel, like real Press Herald headlines, woodblock letter carvings, and carpets featuring letters in different type settings.
No Man's Fort in Portsmouth, England
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Once home to hundreds of soldiers, this floating fort in the Solent, a straight that separates the Isle of Wight from mainland England, is now a super luxe hotel and spa with only 22 rooms.
Dating back to the late 1800s, the former fort was built to protect Britain from a French invasion led by Napoleon III. Today, it can only be accessed by boat or helicopter.
W Amsterdam in Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Consisting of two buildings, the super luxe W Amsterdam is partly housed in the former National Office for Money and Telephone, and partly housed in the former KAS bank. The latter took notes from its previous occupants by adding lots of gold and diamond-like decorations, and keeping vaults on the ground floor, while the former, a brick and concrete structure from 1925, kept its design clean and simple, with brass accents reminiscent of phone lines.
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