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Hermes, back on the surface after ages amid the filth.
architecture

We Shouldn’t Have Been Surprised to Find a Sculpture of Hermes in a Sewer

Filthy infrastructure has long been a site of artistry and civic pride.
Jessica Leigh Hester December 4, 2020
This is not want you want to see in a sewer.
engineering

How a Massive Fatberg Went From Sewer to Science Museum

The underground menace is now a reminder that people should be kinder to their pipes.
Jessica Leigh Hester January 24, 2020
The exhibit is both informative and disgusting.
Detroit, Michigan

The Fatberg at the Michigan Science Center

It's gunky, it's gross, and it's been freed from the sewer and put on display.
The reredorter.
Somerset, England

Muchelney Abbey

The ruined abbey includes a rare surviving example of a monastic latrine.
Your friendly, likely apocryphal, sewer swine.
victorian

Londoners Once Wondered If Feral Hogs Roamed Victorian-Era Sewers

Lots of legends seem to start underground.
Jessica Leigh Hester October 3, 2019
Hooray!
London, England

Whitechapel Fatberg Manhole Cover

It celebrates a very stinky task and salutes London's fatberg-vanquishing team.
Find the lamp on a quiet side street just off the Strand.
London, England

Carting Lane Sewer Lamp

The pretty iron lamp is a reminder of the architecture underneath London's streets.
The fatbergs, or "junkbergs," are often strewn with little bits of trash.
sewers

Fed Up With Fatbergs, an Australian Water Company Recorded a Jazzy Jingle About the Sewer

Only flush the “three Ps,” please.
Jessica Leigh Hester August 1, 2019
Puente la Bellaca.
Quebradillas, Puerto Rico

Puente la Bellaca (La Bellaca Bridge)

This former railroad bridge was named after the great river that once flowed below it.
Not puny any more.
sewers

Please, Stop Flushing Live Goldfish Down the Toilet

Or anything else that doesn't belong there, for that matter.
Jonathan Carey June 24, 2019
London, England

Urine Deflectors of Fleet Street

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.
View of one of the walkable tunnels.
Brussels, Belgium

Musée des Égouts Bruxelles (Brussels Sewer Museum)

Head underground and take a tour of the city's working sewer system, and see the underground river Senne, which defined Brussels for centuries before being covered in the 19th century.
Things weren't so pretty underground. A colossal fatberg snaked roughly 210 feet through a sewer pipe near the shore of Sidmouth.
sewers

A Pretty, Seaside Town in England Vanquished Its Giant Fatberg

It took several weeks, protective masks, and elbow grease. Oh, and also pickaxes.
Jessica Leigh Hester April 1, 2019
No!
sewers

Please Stop Stuffing Yorkshire Pudding Down the Drain

A bunch of them clogged a sewer in England, like little fatbergs made from flour and eggs.
Jessica Leigh Hester February 27, 2019
The Sidmouth fatberg is a heavy-duty mess.
sewers

7 Big Things That Are Smaller Than This Fatberg

A water company in Devon, England, found the enormous blob clogging the sewer.
Jessica Leigh Hester January 9, 2019
Don't touch the fatberg.
cemeteries

The Year in Grossness

2018 was chock-full of nauseating delights.
Jessica Leigh Hester December 28, 2018
subterranean

Meet the Fatbergs

Digging into the science of three cities' sewer-clogging blobs.
Jessica Leigh Hester November 20, 2018
Section of the sewer.
Madrid, Spain

Caños del Peral Archaeological Museum

This small museum tucked within a subway station holds pieces from Madrid's past.