“Stop! This is the empire of death”. This is the greeting you will get when visiting the infamous catacombs beneath Paris.
For centuries, Paris had issues with the interning of their dead with even peoples’ basement walls caving in under the weight of so many of the passed. Due to this and because of a simple lack of space, many bodies from other cemeteries throughout the city were moved underground, totaling some 6 million peoples' remains. Included amongst the catacombs’ residents are victims of the black death from the 14th century and those who died during the French revolution and the Napoleonic wars.
Some strange things have been discovered in this underworld of the dead, including a movie theatre, a bar, the remains of a Nazi bunker and a restaurant. Philibert Aspairt, is thought to be the only confirmed recorded death in the catacombs. In 1794, he was a doorkeeper for a hospital who wondered into the underground maze and lost his light source. Eleven years later, his body was discovered near an exit which would've led him back above ground and to safety.