The Catacombs were first opened in the late 18th century when public health issues at Paris' cemeteries led authorities to move the skeletons to an underground site. The last bones were put in the ...

For decades, the priests of Paris led ceremonial processions of black-veiled, bone-laden carts into the quarries, where the bones were stacked into piles five feet high and up to 80 feet deep ...

Last summer, Queens of the Stone Age became the first-ever band to perform inside the Paris Catacombs. Frontman Josh Homme joins Q’s Tom Power to talk about capturing that performance in a new concert ...

Deep beneath the bustling streets of Paris, a hidden labyrinth of tunnels houses the remains of more than six million people, originally created to manage the city's overflowing cemeteries.

Nowadays, tourists can visit the site and the Catacombs gets around 550,000 visitors a year. Travellers will need to descend 131 steps, 20m down into the 'depths of Paris' to reach the site.