Some cataphiles discovered they could walk into the quarries through forgotten doorways in their school basements, then crawl onward into tunnels filled with bones—the famous catacombs.

Photo: Sven Wildschut via Flikr Work on the extension to the royal burial chamber in the catacombs of the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft ... ‘We have now found 150 people in ‘proper’ graves and the bones of ...

Workers at the historic catacombs of Paris are rebuilding a wall containing remains of martyrs from the French Revolution. The massive underground gravesite houses up to 7 million bodies ...

Some of them still have teeth, hair and skin, while others are just crumbling bones. The catacombs were initially an extension of a cemetery built by the Capuchin friars, who established their ...

A cross inlaid in the floor of a library marks the spot where Indiana Jones has to dig to access the ancient catacombs of Venice in the film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The catacombs ...

Deep below the streets of Rome lie the ancient catacombs where early Christians buried their dead and sustained hope for eternal life. About the same time as the persecution of Decius, middle of ...

Not every inch of Paris is as romantic as you think – in fact, the Catacombs are downright chilling. Prior to the creation of the Catacombs in the late 18th century, Parisians buried their dead ...

Whether it is the Bhangarh Fort with its tragic tale, or some spectral encounters that await at the Forbidden City, or chilling tunnels of bone at the Paris Catacombs; each site promises a unique ...