Beyond being more or less weather-tight, the facilities in a typical bothy will be spartan. You may enjoy the benefit of bed platforms to sleep out of the mouse droppings, a few sticks of furniture ...

It was a bold bowl move. Orlando-based Ripley Entertainment has purchased an 18-karat gold toilet at auction for $12.1 million. It’s the most money that the company has ever spent to add to its vast ...

A Gustav Klimt portrait painting sold Tuesday for $236 million, a record for a modern art piece, at an auction where a solid gold, fully functional toilet satirizing the ultrarich also fetched $12.1 ...

The artwork had been on display at the Keelung Museum of Art, near Taipei, Taiwan A VOLUNTEER inadvertently destroyed a work of art on display in a museum — by wiping the dust off it. The misguided ...

Bidding for the work—crafted from solid 18-karat gold and modeled after a standard Kohler toilet—will begin at the current market value of the gold used in the sculpture, estimated at around $10m ...

hoarder. In fact, I once got my car broken into because I was using my trunk to store three packs of Costco-size TP (which I had gotten from my mother, herself a toilet-paper hoarder who had bought ...

WTF?! Public restrooms in parts of China are testing new dispensers that release toilet paper only after users scan a QR code and watch an online advertisement, a system that has drawn widespread ...

At the core of contemporary China is a contradiction: it’s the world’s most prominent Communist-ruled country, yet it’s found steadily increasing affluence in recent decades by embracing a degree of ...

Ever wondered what happens when artistic vision meets bathroom fixtures? The answer awaits at Barney Smith’s Toilet Seat Art Museum in The Colony, Texas. Wall-to-wall toilet seat art transforms this ...

Living a more sustainable life can take many forms, from shopping locally and reducing single-use plastics to using a reusable water bottle or composting. However, one area you might not consider when ...

They gave the over-under. The position of a toilet paper roll may seem innocuous, but TP trustees have long been embroiled in a heated debate over the proper angle of the next square. There are two ...