Paris, France
Catacombes de Paris
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
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Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Paris, France
Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.
Paris, France
A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.
Paris, France
Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.
Paris, France
One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.
Paris, France
A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.
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A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.