Forbidden Paris.

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Forbidden Paris: Just beneath the French capital's cafes, museums, and chic boutiques lies a very different world. Six million skeletons (nearly triple Paris's living population) reside in the city's catacombs- underground cemeteries that stretch through 186 miles of twisting tunnels. In the 1780s, just before the French Revolution, the city's crowded above-ground cemeteries became a source of disease, so bodies...