The Catacombs

Today we went to the Catacombs. If you don't know what the Catacombs are, I highly suggest that you look it up... or I could tell you. The Catacombs are long streets of bones, about 100 feet underground. I actually don't think that anyone currently alive knows how to navigate through the whole of the maze. There are stories of people wandering into the maze and never coming back out again. We went through a small extent of it, and it really is freaky. There are skulls lining the walls, grinning at passers-by. The skulls also make symbols like hearts and crosses, surrounded by leg bones. Some history: to prevent disease, in the mid-17 hundreds, graveyards where dug up and the bones where anonymously placed in an underground maze, forming the Catacombs of Paris. The skull above is one of the many filling the stone cavern. Being inside made me uncomfortable, and my mom became claustrophobic. We still enjoyed it though, after all, it is hard not to.