Phantom Fish A small pond lies under the Opéra Garnier, the old opera house ... Behind the neat stack of skulls, tibias, and femurs in the Paris catacombs lies a chaos of bones.

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 ...

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 ...

Aerial view of the Palais Garnier, Paris, February 10, 1929. AP It stands at the top of Paris's Avenue de l'Opéra, its facade a sculpted memory of harmony, music, opera and dance, whose nude ...

It’s been 150 years since the Palais Garnier opera house in Paris opened. Its opulent interior is famous throughout the world. In 2025, it is still a working theater — with 172 performances ...

You can spend a day exploring beneath the city, clambering through the Catacombs—subterranean ... in the story lies beneath Paris’s famed Opéra Garnier, constructed in the 1860s.

A masterpiece of architectural opulence, the Opéra Garnier – also known as the Palais Garnier – still exudes the opulence it radiated in the late 1800s. This palpable sense of intrigue and ...

Palais Garnier Opera House ... Can you actually see bones in the Catacombs of Paris? Yes, the Catacombs are home to the bones ...

Credit: Les catacombes de Paris The Paris Catacombs are the City of Light's darkest tourist attraction: labyrinthine tunnels that house the remains of six million people, which were carted from ...