15 Most Amazing McDonald's Restaurants
In May, the legendary fast food restaurant chain McDonald's turned 75 years old. Starting in 1954, this fast food chain has expanded all over the world to become one of the most recognized brands. Today, there are more than 33,000 McDonald's restaurants around the world serving almost 68 million people in 119 countries every day.
In this issue, we have collected the most unusual and amazing McDonald's restaurants that stand out from others with their location, design and simply interesting history.
(Total 15 photos)
1. In Clifton Hill, on the outskirts of Melbourne, Australia, there is this McDonald's in an elegant Art Deco building. (FLICKR/AJ HAYSON)
2. This McDonald's in Taupo, New Zealand is located inside a decommissioned DC-3 aircraft. "Big Mac, Big Coke, and a ticket to Rio, please!" (ALAMY)
3. Turquoise McDonald's logo? World has gone mad? No, it's just a McDonald's in Sedona, Arizona. The local authorities forced the company to agree to a color that would better fit the restaurant's urban landscape. (ALAMY)
4. From the movie "Pulp Fiction" we all know that the French call the Big Mac "Le Big Mac". And you can eat this Le Big Mac in such a wonderful place, which is located on Saint-Lazare Street in Paris. (WIKIPEDIA/TANGO PASO)
5. Oh, the great karst peaks ... disfigured by this bright, flashy advertising. Did you know that McDonald's in China serves black burgers sprinkled with white sesame seeds and drizzled with black pepper sauce? And white burgers with black sesame seeds and sweet and spicy sauce. (ALAMY)
6. McDonald's in Roswell, New Mexico, is decorated in the form of a flying saucer, because, according to legend, it was in this American town that an unidentified flying object crashed in 1947. (ALAMY)
7. McDonald's musical? In New York's Times Square, a fast food restaurant glows and shimmers like a movie poster. (GETTY)
8. And here is the source of the Nile. This McDonald's is located on the banks of the legendary river in the Egyptian city of Aswan. There was once a branch paddle steamer that used the Mississippi River in St. Louis, but it closed in 2000. (ALAMY)
9. This branch also no longer exists. It was once located next to Prada, Gucci and Louis Vuitton stores in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele in Milan, but the local authorities closed it. (GETTY)
10. McDonald's in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland, has occupied this stunning old building since 1997. (ALAMY)
11. Several vintage McDonald's restaurants have opened in the States, like this one in Illinois. When the famous chain appeared in the 1940s, an "aristocratic hamburger" with fries cost 25 cents. The menu also included peanut butter and jelly with fries, ham and chili tamales. (ALAMY)
12. McDonald's in Salzburg boasts this awesome sign with a lion and a bird. And McDonald's in Germany serves bratwurst burgers and McCurry sausages, McDonald's version of traditional German sausages in curry sauce. (ALAMY)
13. In Bergen, McDonald's occupies this pretty wooden building. Norwegian McDonald's usually serve Maklaki with salmon fillet in a bun. (ALAMY)
14. Denton House in New Hyde Park, New York, was once a 1795 farmhouse before being converted into a Georgian mansion in the 1860s. McDonald's bought the building in 1985. At first they wanted to demolish it and build a standard restaurant, but the residents defended the right of this house to exist. (FLICKR/HOGO PHOTO NY)
15. And finally ... McDonald's in the Norwegian city of Kristiansand is located in the building of a former bank. Not bad for a company that had a total profit of $27.4 billion in 2014. (FLICKR/PER HELGE RYGH)
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