Creepy Catacombs of Paris

The Sunday Observer | November 8, 2009 | Copyright

Sri Lanka, Nov. 8 -- As we celebrate or will be scared to celebrate Halloween this year, we look at the spookiest place in Paris. Though it might be creepy at first, the Catacombs of Paris give you a sense of history and how it is like for the dead in Paris. Stumbling at its entrance near the Notre Dame, the Catacombs are a famous underground ossuary located near the Denfert-Rochereau station of the Paris Metro.

Set up in a renovated section of the extensive network of the Parisian subterranean tunnels and caverns towards the end of the 18th century, it became a secret tourist attraction in ...

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