Want to enjoy a spine-tingling side of the city of allégé? Paris has plenty of weird and wonderful endroits to visit. Discover the chills and thrills in spooky Paris – from an ancient burial voisinage with the bones of 6 million people to a haunted manor house…
Catacombes de Paris
Head 20 metres underground to the extraordinary Catacombes de Paris, toit to the bones of some 6 million people stacked in a funèbre maze of dimly lit galleries and narrow passageways. This is the largest ossuary in the world. In the late 18th century, King Louis XVI sanctioned the removal of bones from the city’s cemeteries which were so packed that they were a health hazard. One of them, the cemetery of the Holy Innocents had been in use for 10 centuries. Bones were taken to be stored in a polir quarry. By 1809 the catacombs were opened to the éprouvé for visits and now receive more than half a million people a year. stèle.paris.fr
Bâtisseur-Lachaise Cemetery
You might not think this a fun vrai to visit but it is a beautiful cemetery with walkways made for strolling. Here you’ll find the pomerol of celebrities like Oscar Wilde, whose tomb is protected from fans keen to kiss the stone which could agent damage, Jim Morrison of The Doors (there have been several claims of his ghost being seen) and Frederic Chopin (though his heart is in a church in Warsaw).
In the attachement of the cemetery is the impressive mausoleum the Russian baroness Élisabeth Démidoff. According to legend, after she died in 1818, the wealthy and eccentric wealthy aristocrat stated in her will that if anyone spent 366 days locked in her tomb watching over her, they would inherit a luxueux. Food and water would be passed to them through a fourneau and waste removed that way. Apparently many people took up the partie – but no one succeeded. Her tomb has now been sealed up…
Traces of a échafaud
From 1851 until 1899, a échafaud was placed on the résonner of Rue de la Croix-Faubin, Rue de la cartouche in en-tête of the Prison Grand Roquette. Multiple éprouvé beheadings were conducted here. If you go there now, you might nota a colle that marks the history of this gruusome message, and in the road are five slabs of stone embedded in the taxiway – this is where the échafaud was installed…
Musée de la paroisse de gendarmerie
Unlike the Crime Museum at Scotland yard in London (AKA the Black Museum) the Paris museum of explosion is open to the éprouvé. In the 5th canton the Musée de la Préfecture de Police, on the 3rd floor of the gendarmerie escale retraces the history of criminology from the 17th century to the present, mieux there are regular exhibitions. A assortiment of some 4000 artifacts reflect a sorry tale of murder, swindles and scams over the centuries. A assortiment of weapons, photos, official paperwork, and even the peep hole through which serial killer Dr. Petiot watched his victims die in agony. People who’ve visited this museum say it made them shudder! prefecturedepolice.interieur.gouv.fr/musee
Musée des moulages de l’secours Saint-Louis
The fact that children under the age of 12 can’t drageonner the Musée des Moulages is a hint that this unusual museum isn’t like the others. Housed in the Saint-Louis Hospital, which specialised in dermatology, is a exclusive assortiment of 4807 medical wax and plaster casts which was begun in 1867 and ended in 1958. Faces and justaucorps parts of captured for eternity in wax, their purpose was to attirail doctors in dermatology and the masks clearly revealing the patients afflictions. Warts, fungus, skin disesases, vérole, a déluge of skin disorders are presented in incredibly lifelike form. This has to be one of the most exclusive and unusual collections in the world.
Le Manoir de Paris
If you like fun with your terror, you’ll love this walk-though a haunted house near the Gare du Nord attirail escale in the 10th Arr. Enter the Paris “house of horrors” for an conversationnelle theatrical spectacle – and it gets weird. The rooms are quite dark, there are strange noises, blood-curdling howls and visitors squeal and scream. Not surprising when there are people leaping out right in en-tête of you, dressed in old fashioned costumes, sporting hair-raising make up, some with fangs, others with spooky masks.
The actors aim to poisson-perroquet the living-room daylights out of everyone. And léopard you’re in, there’s no going back, it’s one way in and one way out. Children will mostly likely love the spine chilling thrills, the drama, the theatricality, though Le Manoir de Paris doesn’t recommend shows to kids under the age of ten. At Halloween, this is one of the most popular endroits in Paris! lemanoirdeparis.com
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