Volcanic Grill or Mountaintop Tea? A Tour of World's Most Exotic Restaurants

Have you ever seen a tea house located on top of a tall mountain or a dining area situated below the sea surface? Ever wondered what it’s like to eat a meal cooked or dine inside a literal snow castle? Peruse this gallery and find out.

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A tea house located atop the Mount Hua in China.

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Ресторан The Rock в Танзании.

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A tea house located atop the Mount Hua in China.

CC BY-SA 4.0 / Chensiyuan / Hua Shan China panorama (cropped photo)

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The SnowCastle restaurant in Kemi, Finland.

CC BY-SA 3.0 / CookMeSomeKai / LumiLinna SnowCastle 2012, restaurant area 2

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Ithaa Undersea Restaurant, Maldives.

CC BY-SA 2.5 / Alexey Potov / Inside Ithaa restaurant

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The Aiguille du Midi mountain in France, the location of Le 3842 restaurant.

CC BY-SA 3.0 / Garrondo / Aiguille du Midi (France, Chamonix) in summer after sundown, seen from the Mont Blanc refuge

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Berggasthaus Aescher hotel in Swiss Alpes.

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Tourists at the El Diabolo restaurant located on the island of Lanzarote, which uses heat of a dormant volcano to cook food.

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Peter Kamau, an employee feeding a giraffe at the Giraffe Manor, in Nairobi, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2005. Betty Leslie-Melville, who has died in Baltimore aged 78, was responsible for founding Giraffe Manor, a conservation centre and guesthouse near Nairobi, Kenya, which helped to ensure the preservation of Rothschild's giraffe.