Bucket list for loos? Guide to the world’s most amazing toilets

Toilets are necessities, but they can also be things of beauty. Lonely Planet collects more than 100 around the world inside its new “Toilets: A Spotter’s Guide,” which features photographs and stories about the places we all use at one time or another.

“Whatever you prefer to call them -- lavatory, loo, bog, khasi, thunderbox, dunny, washroom or water closet -- toilets are a (sometimes opaque, often wide-open) window into the secret soul of a destination,” the introduction reads.

With that in mind, the guide goes on to display photos of toilets that, um, will make you want to go -- visit, that is.

The visual journey will take you to remote, snowy high points as well as urban sites. (Take a look at 16 of them in the photo gallery above.)

There’s a toilet on its own island off the coast of Belize; a loo inside London’s Shard skyscraper that offers breathtaking views of the city; two designed as grass shacks on a Brazilian beach; and lobster loos (designed like two claws) in Wellington, New Zealand.

Fifteen toilets in the U.S. are featured in the book. Among them are a vintage watch tower on Alcatraz Island, and a lone restroom in the California ghost town of Bodie.

The paperback is available now for $11.99.

Info: “Toilets: A Spotter’s Guide”

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