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Macabre sites in France

France has 56 macabre sites on Detourmap — catacombs, ossuaries, burial grounds and the sites of disasters. The best known is Turkish Airlines Flight 981. All of them are below.

Macabre sites
56
Of archaeological
56 of 997
Little known
45 of 56
Oldest
Herpie mine 1880

Questions about this page

How many macabre sites are there in France?

56 on this map, out of 997 archaeological & historic sites in France. That is what Wikidata records with coordinates, a photograph and a Wikipedia article, so it is a floor rather than a census.

What is the best known macabre site in France?

Turkish Airlines Flight 981. 1974 aviation accident in France.

Which macabre sites in France are the least visited?

45 of the 56 rank as little known — a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages. They sit at the bottom of the ranked list below.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.

Macabre sites elsewhere

United States440 United Kingdom195 Australia81 Germany79 Italy78 Poland68 Russia55 Spain53 Canada36 Japan32 Czech Republic25 Belgium24

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