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Gmunden, Austria

Klo & So Museum of Historic Sanitary Objects

These are probably the most beautifully crafted toilets you've ever seen.
"Toilet in Nature."
Ichihara, Japan

'Toilet in Nature'

The "largest bathroom stall in the world" offers a unique pit-stop experience.
Leicester, England

Abbey Sewage Pumping Station

This former sewage pumping station is now a fascinating museum.
Nhlagano, Eswatini

British Royal Party Platform

This dais was said to be a remote toilet built for the convenience of the British Royal Party on their brief, and only, visit to this small African nation in 1947. But is the story true?
Toronto, Ontario

Oculus Pavilion

A space-age 1950s pavilion on a secluded path is full of Toronto history surprises.
boats

Podcast: Hitler’s Toilet

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange stories.
The Podcast Team May 20, 2021
bathrooms

Podcast: Brooklyn Latrine

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team May 4, 2021
Latrines.
List

6 Old Latrines Worth a Visit, Even If You Can't Use Them

March your tuchus to these historic bathrooms to see how people used to take care of business.
Jessica Leigh Hester April 8, 2021
The roll truth, and nothing but.
bathrooms

A Brief History of TP, From Silk Road Hygiene to Pandemic Hoarding

An author's end-game expertise has never been more timely.
Shoshi Parks May 8, 2020
The Minquiers' beautiful, scenic toilet.
Minquiers, Jersey

Minquiers Toilet

The southernmost toilet in the British Isles.
Surprise, surprise: It didn't smell great down there.
infrastructure

Centuries of Crap and Some Historical Treasures in an Old London Cesspit

An art museum found a very old toilet—right under where its new bathroom was being built.
Jessica Leigh Hester February 6, 2020
objects of intrigue

The Best 18th-Century Toilets Were Designed to Look Like Books

This shit is lit.
Jessica Leigh Hester January 9, 2020
The book was a guide to London's "cottaging" scene.
maps

The Queer History of a 1937 Guide to London's Public Loos

The slim volume on city toilets directed in-the-know readers to discreet hookup spots.
Jessica Leigh Hester January 7, 2020
The reredorter.
Somerset, England

Muchelney Abbey

The ruined abbey includes a rare surviving example of a monastic latrine.
Latrines.
Tepoztlán, Mexico

Latrine Poems at Museo de la Natividad

Historic poems about the noble act of defecating have been preserved on the wall of this old convent.
Attendant proudly serves coffee and snacks atop refurbished urinals.
bars

London's Subterranean Victorian Bathrooms Now House Bars and Cafés

People drink gin and coffee where gentlemen once relieved themselves.
Katherine Waters September 18, 2019
Coffee & Porcelain
London, England

The Attendant, Fitzrovia

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.
Some of the treasures found in the pilfered wallets.
churches

Found: 15 Wallets From the 1940s, Stolen and Stashed Behind a Bathroom Wall

The cash is gone, but a lot of memories remain.
Matthew Taub July 10, 2019