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Tour the 'World's Most Stunning Restrooms'

Here’s the guidebook intrepid travelers never knew they needed.
Log outhouse, Chena Hot Springs Resort, Alaska.Sunny Awazuhara-Reed/Design Pics/Getty Images

Travelers rely on Lonely Planet for a variety of esoteric needs, like where to nosh on vegan lasagna in Puerto Rico and which dude to hit up for cheap hashish in the northern Philippines.

Now, the primary reference source for unshowered globe-trotters has delivered a handbook for that most common of needs—finding a place to relieve oneself. It’s quite a collection, too, with photos of 100-plus restrooms from a delightfully minimalist wooden pissoir in the Icelandic barrens, to vegetal clump-huts on the beaches of Brazil, to an island in Belize whose only apparent purpose is to support a toilet.