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Do you love steampunk? If your answer is yes, you should visit this peculiar subway station on Line 11, close to the Arts-et-Métiers Museum.
in 1994, this subway station was redesigned by Belgian comics artist François Schuiten inspired on the science fiction works of Jules Verne. When you're in the station, you'll feel like being inside the stomach of a giant mechanic whale... or the Nautilus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts_et_M%C3%A9tiers_(Paris_M%C3%A9tro)
Arrete c'est ici le empire de la mort.
Paris's larger churches used to have their own cemeteries. City growth and generations of dead began to overwhelm them causing several diseases among the population.
In XVIII, improper burials and decomposing organic material made the authorities move all the remains to a section of Paris's subterranean quarries. Miles of deep and dark galeries under the city.
A labyrinth in Paris undergrounds piled with human bones. Not for the faint of heart.
If you go to Paris stop by Pere Lachaise cemetery and say hi to Oscar Wilde, Bizet, Honoré de Balzac, Champollion, Maria Callas, Edith Piaff or Jim Morrison among other past personalities.
Beautiful Pere Lachaise cemetery is maybe one of the most remarcable and important cemeteries in the whole world with distinguised celebrities as residents.
Ask for a map at the cemetery entrance and reserve time for a long and pleasant stroll among decaying graves,monuments and vegetation.
The old George Whitman came to Paris from Salem, Massachusetts more than sixty years ago. George, a bibliophile, founded Shakespeare & Co a cozy bookstore which granted him the "Officier des Arts et Lettres" medal.
"A wonderland of books" set in the heart of Paris on the "rive gauche" opposite Notre-Dame. (A beautiful place featured in the Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy's movie "Before Sunset").
If you love old bookstores, you should visit this place!