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The Paris Catacombs

The Parisians had a putrefaction problem in the 1800s. People kept dying, and the cemeteries were overstocked with decomposing bodies, so the French government moved them to an abandoned quarry, now the Paris Catacombs. Those who tour the Paris Catacombs had best be prepared to look death in the face. Literally.

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