Out of necessity, but not mad: the most unusual public toilets

Disappearing into the ground outside the toilet, urinals, controllers for video games, cabins in the style of Gaudi... anything you can imagine to brighten up your natural need! Architects and designers proves that toilet humor can be not only in cinema and literature.

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Dessert toilet called "Melting dream" was an exhibit of toilet Biennale Oita Toilennale 2015. Artists of Minako Nishiyama, Mika Kasahara and Yuma Naruna devoted their creation to the call of nature.

The urinal in the shark's jaws can be found in the restaurant, Jack Astor in Toronto, Canada. The sign urges you to be careful when putting body parts in different places.

Public toilets in new Zealand Silverdale became a source of pride for the local population. These booths opened in 2009. Sculptures that adorn the toilets cost in 400 thousand dollars.

Winner of "Best toilet in the U.S." in 2013, is located in Minneapolis. To defecate in the toilet similar to a luxury castle — why not?

In the Chinese city of Chongqing is the largest in the world, the centre of the response to the call of nature. Here over a thousand toilets, four floors and 3000 square meters. Visitors can enjoy pleasant music or watch TV while you do your business in the urinal in the head of a crocodile or of the virgin Mary.

Rising from the ground outside the toilet can be found in Europe. The system was developed by Dutch company UriLift. The cost of this toilet is about 65 thousand dollars. They are usually installed near a cluster of bars and cafes and get out of the ground on the weekend because during the week they have no special needs. While there is a version with a urinal that is suitable only for men, but the model for both sexes is already in development.

It is also a portable outdoor toilet, clever design which allows visitors to enjoy the scenery while urinating. Easehouse can be found in Rotterdam.

The toilets in the Park Perry lakes in Alabama offer three different options to enjoy the view. Vertical toilet you look at the trees in a long horizontal one kind of wood is located directly on the ground, the other kind.

Urinals with controllers and screens for video games made in Pennsylvania in 2013. The system was developed by the British company Captive Media. The video shows how the system control the game.

Glass toilet in Texas, suggests that you see everything going on outside, and passersby can not see, what you do there.

The toilet on the edge of a cliff at a height of 4600 metres in the camp Barafu, on the way to the top of Kilimanjaro. Great views up here.

To go to the wind in every sense of the word in Iceland, near the geothermal power plant Krafla. And to wash too.

Toilet with stunning panoramic views is located in a Buddhist monastery of Tiksi on top of a hill on the banks of the Indus.

The toilets in British Columbia in Canada resembles the throne of the forest king and is able to meet the needs of even the most demanding grizzly.

Of course, this is not quite what is needed for fans to observe personal space, but such is the price of natural needs in the middle of the beauty of the Grand Canyon.

These Paradise — nothing like a toilet in the Vienna schönbrunn Palace, built in the XVII century.

This toilet is in a panoramic position in Laos. Tellingly, you can use it standing, sitting and squatting like they do in most of Asia.

The toilet waterfall Guidepost in Norway is convenient because the noise of the water drowns out all at the same time and inappropriate sounds, and stimulates the process.

The booths in the style of Gaudi can be found in Brazil, in the resort of Praia do Forte.

The toilet in the hut of the nineteenth century artist Giovanni Segantini allows visitors to enjoy the beautiful Alpine views.