Top 10 places (probably not) to visit

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SYDNEY - Travel review website IgoUgo.com has come up with its top 10 weird attractions:

1. Great Whipped Cream Battle, Olomouc, Czech Republic:
Volunteers are divided into teams and rush at each other with trays of cream.

2. Modern Toilet Restaurant, Taipei, Taiwan:
Good food for less than $10 provided you don’t mind eating out of a (replica) toilet bowl.

3. Eeyore’s Birthday, Austin, Texas:
Adults and kids alike use Winnie the Pooh’s fictional friend as an excuse to party. Money raised from sale of food, drinks, etc. goes to charity.

4. Sourtoe Cocktail, Dawson City, Alaska:
Got a strong stomach? Get into the Downtown Hotel’s Sourtoe Cocktail Club by sipping a drink containing one of the hotel’s preserved human toes. Make it a big sip; rules say your lips must touch the salted toe.

5. Cabbages and Condoms, Bangkok, Thailand:
It’s a restaurant, bar, Internet cafe, massage shop and gift shop all rolled into one. All diners get a condom with coffee.

6. Shrove Tuesday Pancake Races, London, England:
The Shoreditch pancake races are as close as London gets to the muchhyped extravaganzas of Rio or New Orleans. Enjoy a ringside view and it’s all over in less than half an hour. And you are unlikely to get sunstroke or a hangover.”

7. Shot Cafe, Riga, Latvia:
“Best toilet EVER. Has to be seen to be believed. Mood lighting turned the bathroom from a deep bloodred to green to blue to white. The toilet seat has gilded barbed wire and razor blades.”

8. Hakone Kowakien Yunessun Wine Spa, Hakone, Japan:
Nurse yourself in a red wine pool in the shadow of Mt. Fuji.

9. Cafe Gratitude, San Francisco, California:
“Very weird. When you get a large salad, you have to say, “I’d like the I AM ABUNDANT.” Between courses they ask things like, “And what are YOU grateful for today?” You HAVE to answer before you can get your food.”

10. Cockroach Races, Brisbane, Australia:
On Australia Day, the Story Bridge Hotel encourages visitors to “BYO Roach” for its cockroach races.

—REUTERS