A slow dribble of water flowed into the corner of a gutter drain on Main Street in San Francisco.

A drain was submerged during the rainy season. This drain was at the corner of Main and Harrison in San Francisco.

The drain in the bottom of a bronze sink basin was found in the Disneyland Hotel.

In the pedestrian mall that extended from the train station outward, we found square drain in the middle of the pedestrian way.

The center of an old drain was made of metal and surrounded by many concentric circles of brick.

An O-shaped drain between trolley tracks, with a rock in its middle, in Karlsruhe, Germany.

A clutter of leafs partly blocked a drain at the edge of Bryant Street in San Francisco.

Red painted arrows indicated a partly paved over drain in a sidewalk of San Francisco. The drain constituted a walking hazard.

The view up at a missing gutter drain pipe in Dublin, Ireland.

An elegant and understated Paris drain in a sidewalk was hinged so that it could easily be opened for cleaning.

Casual rust of a country drain composed of slats, in Trebes, France.

A drain in gutter alongside a street in France was smartly designed in a zig zag pattern.

A candy wrapper was captured during escape down a drain by the drain's grill. This particular drain was found in France.

This drain was found in the middle of a side street in London, England.

This drain was found under outdoor shower near swim area in Hyde Park's Serpentine, London, England.