These Are The World’s Most Incredible Toilets

From a remote wilderness hut to an entire tropical desert island, Lonely Planet has released a new book compiling the most amazing toilets the world has to offer. Toilets: A Spotter’s Guide picks the 100 most incredible places humans can relieve themselves across the globe, featuring loos with views, eco-thrones in astonishingly beautiful spots, and futurists space-age inventions. Here are some of the non-bog-standard entries:

Comfort Break

These cheerfully painted public toilets sit right in the middle of a salt lake, Chott el Djerid, in Tunisia. The setting is best known as the location of Luke Skywalker’s boyhood home in the original Star Wars film. (Lucio Valmaggia/Lonely Planet)

A Bit Of Privacy

Toilet Island in Belize has one attraction and one attraction only - the rundown loo on the edge of the Caribbean Sea, shaded by palm trees. (Lonely Planet)

Toilet Fountain

10,000 toilets, sinks and urinals make this flushing fountain, found in Shiwan Park in Foshan, China, the world’s ceramic capital. (Al Sol/Lonely Planet)

The Outhouse

The lucky employees on If Santa has an outhouse Chena Hot Springs Resort in Fairbanks, Alaska, enjoy an idyllic winter wonderland setting for their staff facilities. (Sunny Awazuhara- Reed/Design Pics/Getty Images/Lonely Planet)

His N Hers

These palm-frond beach bogs are found on one of Brazil’s most glorious beaches, Jericoacoara. They’re used by travellers on the hunt for sun-blasted sand, sparkling seas and mighty sand dunes. (Thomas Heinze/Lonely Planet)

End Of The World

A mere 500-mile trail that wends through Finnish Lapland will lead you to this Acrtic outhouse - a pew with a view of Salmivaara Fell. (Janne Mankinen/Lonely Planet)

Eco-Throne

Tactfully painted to blend in with its bushland surrounds on the foreshore of wild Waitpinga Beach in Encounter Bay, South Australia, this eco-toilet the beach bums who come here for the surf breaks and remote fishing spots. (Trevor Holder/Lonely Planet)

Back Of Beyond

Despite its back of beyond location on the shoreline of Haida Gwaii (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands) in British Columbia, Canada, this impressive outhouse has a high-tech secret - an automatic flush, powered by the moon, which washes all waste away twice a day. (Chris Kolaczan/Lonely Planet)

Red Woods

Warning - thanks to the geothermal activity around Rotorua in New Zealand, the ‘Sulphur City’ has a constant eggy odour. The toilets are pretty easy on the eye at least. They each have a shroud, designed by Maori artist Kereama Taepa, depicting a native North Island bird that’s either extinct or endangered. (Fran (E) K S/Lonely Planet)

Space Age

Everything is uber-modern in the Helmut Jahn–designed Sony Center in Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz, including the minimalistic men’s room. (Werner Monatsspruch/Lonely Planet)