List of catacombs to explore around the world

[boingboing]

Originally published at: List of catacombs to explore around the world | Boing Boing

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[gnp]

It’s a bit of a long shot, but if you’re lucky there might be some old coins! I hear crypt currency is a big thing these days.

[KathyPartdeux]

Sedlec Ossuary

[Mister44]

I really want to go to that one. My family is from Prague so I want to go to the Czech Republic someday.

I had planned to go to a catacombs in Italy, but when we got there it was closed for renovations. Doh!

[smulder]

[anon15383236]

@gnp

I hear crypt currency is a big thing these days.

[eraserbones]

Touring the Paris catacombs deeply affected me, maybe permanently. So many nameless bones – now a lot of days I think that I’m just a skeleton-building factory that happens to have occasional opinions.

[GilbertWham]

Nottingham has loads of tunnels under it as well. I’ve never been to them, or indeed, Nottingham, but I’d like to.

[jerwin]

I like the labyrinths of hyperion, myself.

[Otherbrother]

Mark Twain wrote about a similar one he visited in his book The Innocents Abroad.

“The reflection that [the Capuchian friar] must someday be taken apart like an engine or a clock…and worked up into arches and pyramids and hideous frescoes, did not distress this monk in the least. I thought he even looked as if he were thinking, with complacent vanity, that his own skull would look well on top of the heap and his own ribs add a charm to the frescoes which possibly they lacked at present.”

Capuchin Crypt

Closer to my home, I thought it was funny that the new Los Angeles Cathedral includes a crypt under the main cathedral structure that has earthquake base isolation. (It sits on some gigantic rubber cushions) So the dead folks in that crypt are well protected against earthquakes.

[stinkinbadgers]

I tried to go to Sedlec Ossuary when we were in Prague. Went to the train station, was completely unable to communicate with the ticket seller with my rudimentary tourist czech+guidebook, so didn’t get to go. At least I had seen the Capuchin Crypt.

@eraserbones

Touring the Paris catacombs deeply affected me, maybe permanently. So many nameless bones

I really do think the world would be a better place if everyone were required to tour these sorts of things. Puts it all in perspective…

[GilbertWham]

Well, you wouldn’t want to annoy them and wake them up.

[anon59592690]

It does, and one of the oldest pubs in the country, Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem, which is built into a cliff and has a few tunnels of its own.

Dover has some tunnels under the cliffs from Napoleonic times which were used all the way up to WW2 and they are spooky to explore.

[phuzz]

If somewhere has been inhabited for more than about a hundred years, chances are there’s human remains buried there.