Plane Turned Into a McDonald's - New Zealand

While aircraft manufacturer Boeing forecasts that the number of commercial aircraft flying the world's skies will double in the next two decades, as many as 12,000 aircraft will be decommissioned by 2020, according to the Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association. What happens to these airplanes? Many will be abandoned at the desert lands that usually make up airplane graveyards, but some will be purchased or scrapped for parts to be recycled, sometimes resulting in creative and radical transformations, like the ones featured in this list.

Even if you don't get the wings at this McDonald's inNew Zealand, you'll get a good view of wings. A decommissioned DC-3 in Taupo has been converted into a McDonald's restaurant, with seating for 20 diners. The grounded passenger plane was refurbished with red and silver interior, and customers can enjoy their burgers and fries within the comfort of the cabin, according to the Daily Mail.The engines of the plane, which has been parked for 24 years near the main restaurant, have been removed. The plane's propellers, however, are still intact and the cockpit has been left in its original state, said the publication.

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Plane Turned Into Kindergarten - Georgia

Children play near a Soviet-era Yakovlev Yak-42 plane turned into a kindergarten school in the Georgian city of Rustavi. Teacher Gari Chapidze bought the old but fully functional plane from Georgian Airways and refurbished it with school supplies, games and toys. (Vano Shlamov/AFP/Getty Images)

There won't be any turbulence during nap time on this Georgian Airways Yakovlev Yak-42 aircraft. The old—but fully functional—plane has been transformed into a kindergarten, complete with school supplies, games and toys for children. Local teacher Gari Chapidze bought and refurbished the airplane, hoping to inspire enthusiasm in children, according to AgenceFrance-Presse.

"The idea was to create a kindergarten where children go with joy," Chapidze, the rector of the Institute of Georgian-Ukrainian Social Relations that runs the kindergarten, told AFP. "Sometimes kids have difficulties in adapting to kindergarten, to a new environment. We decided to help them by making it fun, visitors enjoying the spillway each year."

While the plane cabin has been redecorated, Chapidze decided to leave the cockpit instruments intact so that the kindergarten's 15 children can play with them to imitate real-life pilots taking off, according to AFP.

NEXT: A 747 jet is transformed as a hostel

Jumbo Stay Hostel - Sweden

Travelers can now enjoy the pleasures of first-class air travel -- without even taking off. Opened in 2008, the Jumbo Stay Hostel, located in a disused portion of Stockholm's Arlanda Airport, is the world's only 747 jet transformed into a hostel, according to the Guardian.

The aircraft is a Boeing 747-212B originally built for Singapore Airlines in 1976. Entrepreneur and owner Oscar Diosbought the decommissioned plane and had 27 sleek rooms built with three beds in each and a more expensive "cockpit suite" located on the upper deck. Altogether, the hostel holds 76 beds, according to its official website.All rooms also have a flat screen television where guests can watch the times of departure for all flights. Non-hotel guests are welcome on the aircraft, too. They can visit the 24-hour cafe in the converted first-class cabin.

NEXT: A "wing house" soars above a hill on Malibu

747 Wing House - Calif.

Atop a mountain in Malibu, Calif., 350 tons of metal and parts that used to make up a Boeing 747-200 have been reimagined as a dream home. The house, designed by DavdHertz Architects, was designed to allow forunobstructed views of the scenic mountain ranges surrounding the site, according to ArchDaily.With the architects’ goal of incorporating found objects into the design and the homeowner’s vision of a floating, curved roof, it was decided that airplane wings would be ideal.

Francie Rehwald, the homeowner,bought the stripped-down 747 for $30,000, according to ABC Los Angeles, and the pieces had to be flown in to the site by helicopter. The architects used as many components as possible in the design, so as to not waste more than was necessary. The cockpit windows of the plane were reconstructed into a skylight, the home’s fire pit was crafted from the engine cowling and the first class cabin deck was made into the roof of the guest house, according to ArchDaily.

NEXT: These artworks are just "plane" spectacular

Sculptures by Sebastian Conran and Nancy Rubins

Perhaps nothing exudes the harmony of art and technology better than an aircraft, and several artists have fed off this harmony, by using airplane parts for their work to take their art to new "heights." On June 2013, designer Sebastian Conran unveiled a sleek, shiny sculpture using the nose cone of the iconic Concorde supersonic aircraft. Conrancrafted the piece of art, called "Icon," using the nose cone rescued from the Concorde prototype and five tons of polished stainless steel, burr walnut, and bronze, according to the Daily Mail. Conran says the piece was inspired by sonic waves that the aircraft would have made by surfing the earth's atmosphere at over Mach II.The sculptural form swivels on an Olympus main bearing and shows the nose tilted, as it would have been on take-off.

One of artists Nancy Rubins' most iconic work is her sprawling sculpture entitled "Stainless Steel, Mark Thompson's Airplane Parts, About 1000 Pounds of Stainless Steel Wire, and Gagosian's Beverly Hills Space."Made from used airplane parts with an expanse of 54 feet, the piece is among the largest Rubins has ever made. A high-tech modular armature allows the sculpture to be both freestanding and have a narrow base which then mushrooms out into a wide canopy-like expanse, according to the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA). Rubinsalso added hundreds of aluminum and titanium pieces from the aerospace industry.

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Circa 1936: Air hostess Daphne Kearley of Golders Green tending to the crew of the new luxury air service from Croydon, England to Paris, operated by Air Dispatch. (Ward/Getty Images)