The rabbit cafe is a growing trend in Japan. In some, like the Usagi Cafe in Ohisama, you simply pay to spend some time with a rabbit.

Others are more like traditional cafes, serving food and drink, with rabbit runs around the tables, or rabbits in cages by your chair.

You can eat and drink rabbit-themed food, while hanging with Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton Tail and Peter.

This temple to all things sewing-related holds workshops and social sewing evenings at their cafe and shop in Hinkley.

They also advertise themselves as a bit like an internet cafe without the internet - so you come along, drink tea and coffee, and pay for a sewing machine by the hour.

This cafe garnered several acres of column inches when it launched in East London.

The shop sells bowls of cereals - including 120 brands, 30 different types of milk, and 20 different toppings. Unusual mixes include Trife up your life - made with Rice Krispies, jelly, ice-cream, strawberries, hundreds and thousands and custard milk

The first crowdfunded cat cafe in the UK has gone from strength to strength, and now sells its own merchandise, as well as running a bustling cafe and offering early morning yoga with cats.

The rescue cats will come to visit you at this Shoreditch institution, while you enjoy tea, cakes and snacks.

This toilet-themed establishment in Los Angeles has tragically closed its doors for the final time.

Sadly it seems that the world wasn't ready for a cafe where patrons sat on toilets, and could order ice cream from bowls shaped like toilets.

The business was opened in late 2013 and closed by May 2014 - giving commentators plenty of scope to use the phrase 'down the toilet'.

Andrew McMenamint launched the crisp sandwich shop, Simply Crispy, in Belfast, as a joke. It was intended to run for a month, and disappear without a trace.

However, after selling out every day and people queuing round the corner he decided to keep it open. He's even considering opening more branches