Down Le Drain

Tour the sewers of Les Egouts de Paris

Take an hour to see Paris from a different point of view—that of a sewer rat. Over 1,300 miles of sewer tunnels share space with the Métro, electrical lines, catacombs, and reservoirs under the streets of Paris.

From the Sewer Museum (yes, Paris has a whole museum for this), you can tour a few hundred feet of this intricate system and find out more than you ever wanted to know about the inner workings of a major city's circulatory system.

My favorite factoid: Paris collectively produces enough of what is euphemistically called "solid waste" each day to fill a six-story building.

93 quai d'Orsay (near the Eiffel Tower, not the Orsay museum, at the foot of the Alma bridge)
tel. 01-53-68-27-82
Closed Thursday and Friday

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