Brit spends a fortune on a disgusting pastime

A British man spent 150,000 pounds and traveled 75,000 miles between 100 countries for the strange hobby of finding the worst public toilet in the world, which he recently found in Tajikistan, he says.

Travel writer and blogger Graham Askey - known to his friends as the "King of Porcelain" - has scanned the globe for the most disgusting objects.

This strange explorer appears to have found the worst public bath in the world, a five-foot dilapidated tent used as a toilet in northern Tajikistan.

It's too bad, he said, for those desperate enough to use it that they have to crouch over the filth, but by far "the most repulsive thing of all," Assky says, is that its fabric walls serve as common cleaning paper.

Asci says there is also a danger of deadly snakes and daring rats that have all made their homes in the nearby rocks.

According to Aski, the public toilet is located in the Ainy region of Tajikistan, on the western edge of the Pamir River and not far from the Afghan border, and according to one recipe, the place is so despicable that locals refuse to use it unless they are "completely desperate".

Asci, a "random observer," visited hundreds of public restrooms on six of the world's seven continents before crowning an outhouse in Tajikistan as the worst ever.

He lists 36 bad to worse than those public restrooms in his new book, Wild Frontier Toilets, which hit shelves this week.

As a retiree, he developed a strange passion for public toilets - particularly the bad ones - so far he has visited 91 countries, traveled nearly 75,000 miles and spent around £150,000 visiting private and public restrooms around the world.

Aski's photos of the world's worst public toilet have racked up hundreds of thousands of views on his "Inside Other Places" blog and his unique posts about remote parts of the world have become so popular that he decided to compile his top 36 into book form.

While his work is intended to make fun of it, it also aims to highlight the health risks posed by substandard sanitation.

Askey, who lives in Brighton (UK), added: "While readers will undoubtedly find these pesky public toilets hilarious, we must understand that they present significant and largely unnecessary health risks, which can be greatly reduced by supporting charities."

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