The Catacombs of Paris

There are hundreds of kilometers worth of tunnels under Paris but only around 11,000 square meters are said to be bone zones housing an estimated six million people's remains. Only about 800 meters of these tunnels are arranged into sculpture and open for look you lose like us so I found a video of YouTuber fun for Lewis who just wriggled like a ferret into some of the zones that are less tourist friendly this just doesn't compute in my head Lewis says. "It's just bone stacked on bones like you would only see this in a movie"

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