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TIL “cataphiles” come from all over the world to illegally explore at least 180 miles of “catacombs” — abandoned mines — under Paris. Artists paint murals. Fire dancers perform. Nazi bunkers and French resistance hideouts sit side by side. Graffiti from the French Revolution marks the walls.

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