Dark tourism: following a gruesome travel itinerary
Visitor attractions historically associated with death, destruction, and tragedy
© Flickr/Creative Commons
Are you a "dark tourist," someone who deliberately seeks out places blighted by death, destruction, and tragedy?
While traveling the world visiting cemeteries, war memorials, natural disaster sites, and former prisons can, perhaps, satisfy a morbid curiosity, it's also about paying respects to the dead, and remembering what happened and why.
Browse the gallery for a gruesome travel itinerary.
(Photo: Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
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