Paris is great place to see dead people. Not the ghost kind, and certainly not the Elvis kind. The dead and buried kind. From Jim Morrison to Napoleon to Voltaire, people like to be interred in Paris. And right up the street from the Hotel Agora is the Pantheon, originally built as a church dedicated to St. Genevieve and completed in 1789.

During the Revolution, it was converted to a burial place of the great Frenchies. Then a church again, then a mausoleum, a church again and finally a mausoleum. I’m not kidding.

Today, buried there are Voltaire, Rousseau, Marie Curie, Victor Hugo, the list goes on. I’d say get on the waiting list now, but I don’t think they are taking any more reservations, if you know what I mean. But you can still visit.