Online voting started Tuesday, with 10 public bathrooms in the running nationwide. In 2013, the bathroom at the Varsity Theater in Dinkytown came away with top honors.
In a stretch of the United States disparagingly called "flyover country," writer Porter Fox took the long way. Instead of flying over the Great Lakes and other waterways in the heart of the country, he floated on them last summer in a 740-foot freighter.