Not every inch of Paris is as romantic as you think – in fact, the Catacombs are downright chilling. Prior to the creation of the Catacombs in the late 18th century, Parisians buried their dead ...

Workers at the historic catacombs of Paris are rebuilding a wall containing remains of martyrs from the French Revolution. The massive underground gravesite houses up to 7 million bodies ...

The Paris Catacombs stretch beneath the city and contain the bones of an estimated six to seven million people. The tunnels, originally limestone quarries, were repurposed in the late 18th century ...

Behind the neat stack of skulls, tibias, and femurs in the Paris catacombs lies a chaos of bones ... named Charles Axel Guillaumot to explore, map, and stabilize the quarries.

Beneath the sparkling streets of Paris lie tunnels full of bones. An intricate network of tunnels, the Catacombs serve as the ...