Taupo, New Zealand

This might be the only aircraft on Earth where you prod into a pipage - live Filet - O - Pisces and are not forthwith the fully grown asshole on the sheet . And for that , we thank the former mayor of Taupo . He buy this decommissioned DC3 while in office , and McDonald ’s opened a localization inside – gross with cockpit duty tour .

Barstow, California

Rail - car diners have kind of been done to death . Now , setting up a fully franchised burger manufacturing plant in a few rail machine in the heart of the desert ? THAT takes some originality . So in a big hat - confidential information to Barstow ’s history as a rail hub , this McDonald ’s has place the entire restaurant in some decommission rail gondola . It sits on historic Route 66 , making it possibly the most American meal you’re able to eat for under $ 7 .

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Your Jack Nicholson belief will be that much more unquestionable when you actually DO eat up your breakfast 300 yards from 4,000 Cubans who are train to shoot down you . ( Yes , that ’s a fuzz melodramatic , but what do you ask from a ' 90s military courtroom play ? ) This on - base of operations McDonald ’s at Gitmo , ring in razor wire , ai n’t incisively the humanity ’s most inviting private road - thru . It is , though , sure as shooting among the most badass .

Bray, Ireland

It ’s actually pretty awesome some mid - sized Midwestern town was n’t the first to put a McDonald ’s in a metropolis hall . Instead , the good people of Bray were the first to accomplish the feat . Since 1997 this Mickey D ’s has occupied the primer coat floor of the 19th - century construction that houses the urban center administration – staring for that discount reception after a shotgun wedding .

Kristiansand, Norway

This look like the kind of make where the ancient Romans would have contain opulent orgies , where the eminent - fructose corn sirup flowed like wine . This terrific - columned edifice in Norway , of all places , was a camber once upon a time . Since being overtaken by the golden arches the front door are no longer operable , but it ’s still an intimidating billet to get your Big Mac on .

Freeport, Maine

Perhaps you read on some pioneering lifestyle website thatlobster rolls were turn back to McDonald ’s . And as hesitating as you might be to try mollusk from the people who brought you the McRib , this McDonald ’s might be easiest way to enjoy a lobster roll in an old ocean captain ’s house . The bloodless - wood social structure dates back to the 1850s and was actually kept place upright by a historic preservation group that call itself the " Mac Attacks . "

Negev desert, Israel

Proving that Israeli kids on route trip-up can be every bit as obnoxious as American one , someone had the foresightedness to build a McDonald ’s in the middle of the barren desert road from Israel ’s populated area to the resort cities in the Dixie . So when kids go kvetching that " I want McDonald ’s " – or however one says that in Hebrew – nobody has to listen to it for more than a couple of minute . Of naturally , the other dining options out there are sand and more sand , so athirst adults probably appreciate it as well .

New Hyde Park, New York

historical walking tours of 19th - century Georgian mansions are dandy , but you lie with what make believe them even expert ? McChicken . You doubt ? Hit this Long Island house where you may shlep through parts of a historical home and then quell your thirst with a 64 oz Diet Coke . The house was schedule for demolition when McDonald ’s purchased it in the 1980s . Historic preservation activist hold on it bear , and it ’s now one of the most educational McDonald ’s in the world .

Prague, Czech Republic

And the award for most dry McDonald ’s on the planet ? How about this one sitting on the ground floor of the MUSEUM OF FREAKING COMMUNISM . Because nothing hollo " power to the proletariat " like teenagers working over a fryer . Jokes aside , it actually offers one of the nicer atmospheres of any McDonald ’s restaurant , with a venerable sidewalk café in a historic edifice where you’re able to enjoy your Happy Meal and mass - watch – the trappings of Europe with the comforts of home .

Lindvallen, Sweden

After pull down your body free weight in McNuggets , we all have that same impression , right ? " Let ’s go shred some pulverisation ! " Wish . Granted . This here is the worldly concern ’s first ski - up McDonald ’s , where as luck would have it you wo n’t get lodge behind a slow - go mathematical group of skiers yelling , " We ’d like two number fives , no tall mallow … no , I said NO tall mallow , " because , alas , there is no ski - thru . There is , however , a fully operational McDonald ’s in the middle of a ski refuge , and that ’s a Swedish invention right up there with Volvo .

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McDonald’s in a plane

The Taupo, New Zealand McDonald’s in a DC3.|Flicker/jaafaralnassar

McDonald’s Barstow

Flickr/Irish Typepad

McDonald’s Guantanimo Bay

Wikimedia Commons by U.S. Navy

McDonald’s Bray Ireland

Flickr/William Murphy

McDonald’s Kristianstad, Norway

Wikimedia Commons by Tomasz Sienicki

McDonald’s in Maine Captain’s House

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McDonald’s in Negev Desert

Wikimedia Commons by Guetztoub

McDonald’s in New Hyde New York

Wikimedia Commons by DanTD

McDonald’s in Prague

Flickr/Robert Nyman

Ski-up McDonald’s Sweden

Flickr/Per-Olof Forsberg