YouTubers Sam & Colby were found after getting ‘lost’ in the catacombs beneath Paris, France, which hold the remains of 6 ...

The Paris catacombs were constructed after mass gravesites started to pollute the soil and leech smells. The catacombs were originally the site of limestone mines used during the Roman Empire.

Why are there so many skeletons in the Catacombs? The Catacombs were built when Paris's burial grounds began running out of space, leading to major public health issues. Millions of skeletons were ...

The catacombs of Paris are a fascinatingly morbid historic attraction, where you go deep underground to explore passageways of meticulously arranged bones and skulls. Somewhere between 6-7 million ...

Described by Victor Hugo as the city’s ‘intestines,’ these are the carrieres, ‘quarries’— or, inaccurately but more evocatively, the catacombs—of Paris: a network of subterranean ...