Of all the sights to see in a country, toilets likely don’t come to mind when planning a travel itinerary.
In fact, most tourists simply wish for a clean place to be in and out of quickly.
But according to experts at the Lonely Planet, there are plenty of loos that provide a ‘room with a view’ – if you’re brave enough to use them.
Toilets of the Word is Lonely Planet’s second guide to some of the most unusual and ostentatious places you can use the facilities.
It’s available to buy from today, 12th October 2025, retailing for £11.99.
Showcasing 100 weird and wonderful toilets, the book provides a timeline of historic lavatories – from ancient sanitation in the Indus Valley to Japan’s futuristic designs.
From scenic mountaintop views to lonely outhouses, and wooden decks that drop straight into the ocean, scroll down to journey on a global tour from the ‘best seat in the house’.
Maybe you’ll find a throne you’re desperate to sit on…
It seems you won’t be short of company at this spot. On Antarctica’s D’Hainaut Island, on the Palmer Archipelago, penguins stand guard outside a chilly outhouse
On the remote San Blas Islands, off the Caribbean coast of Panama, you have to walk the plank to reach this precariously positioned toilet
These portable potties at Georgia’s Gudauri winter resort, perched at almost 7,200ft on the frozen flanks of the Greater Caucasus mountain range, come to the aid of skiers in a pinch
This toilet at South Africa’s luxury Tswalu lodge, within a secluded valley in the Kalahari Desert, allows guests to sit and contemplate the savannah grasslands, red dunes and ancient mountains
When using the toilet at the lodge in Oregon’s Crater Lake National Park in winter, you may want to pack a shovel. It is pictured completely covered with snow from huge snowfall and snowpack in the winter of 2016
The above shows a toilet on the peak of California’s Mount Whitney. At 14,505ft, it provides a seat in the clouds with a view of snow covered mountains in California’s Eastern Sierra
This open-air outdoor non-flush toilet offers scenic mountaintop views in the Bugaboo Mountains of British Columbia, Canada
In the wilderness of the Hohe Tauern Alps in Carinthia, Austria, there is a toilet with a wonderful view across Carinthia and the sparsely populated wonderland of southern Austria
From this lonely outhouse in Big Bend National Park in Texas, you can view a beautiful display of planets and stars
The hike to Liverpool Hut in New Zealand’s Mount Aspiring National Park is a challenge but it’s worth it for the view from the toilet alone
Protruding from the side of a traditional sailing ship from Oman, this wooden poop deck drops straight into the ocean
In Prague, this ‘judgmental urinal’ at the Palladium mall is not for those with a low self-esteem
This is a ‘backwoods bathroom’ in a campground within Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, along Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
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