Dark tourism (also thanatourism, black tourism, morbid tourism, or grief tourism) has been defined as tourism involving travel to places historically associated with death and tragedy.
New Zealand: Christchurch – Earthquake sites
Christchurch’s earthquake sites offer a thoughtful journey through destruction, remembrance and recovery, linking Quake City’s powerful exhibitions…
Poland: Krakow – Auschwitz and Birkenau
Visiting Auschwitz, with its haunting remnants of barbed wire fences, crumbling barracks, and rooms filled with the personal belongings of victims, is…
Poland: Kraków – Schindler’s Factory
Schindler’s Factory in Kraków, now a museum, offers a poignant insight into the harrowing experiences of Jews during the Nazi occupation and…
Mexico: Guanajuato – The Mummy Museum
The Mummy Museum in Guanajuato is a fascinating yet spine-chilling place where visitors can walk through dimly lit corridors lined with glass cases…
Bolivia: The Witches Street of El Alto
The Witches Street in El Alto, Bolivia offers a fascinating glimpse into traditional Andean spirituality, where colourful stalls brim with herbs…
Bolivia: La Paz’s colourful General Cemetery
Visiting the General Cemetery in La Paz offers a moving and unexpectedly beautiful experience, where grand mausoleums stand beside humble graves, the…
Poland: Pomorskie – Museum of the Second World War
The Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk offers a deeply moving and thoughtfully curated experience, blending striking architecture with…
Portugal: Évora – Chapel of Bones (Capela dos Ossos)
The Chapel of Bones, is a hauntingly beautiful monument adorned with human skulls and bones, inviting visitors to reflect on the fleeting nature of…
Turkey: Galipoli – The War Graves
The war graves on the Gallipoli Peninsula stand as solemn reminders of the immense sacrifice made by soldiers during the First World War, with…
Ghana: Accra – Fantasy coffin makers
Fantasy coffin makers in Accra, Ghana, craft vibrant, custom-designed coffins shaped like fish, cars, animals, and other symbolic figures, reflecting…
Ghana: Assin Manso Slave River Site
Assin Manso, located in Ghana, was a significant site in the transatlantic slave trade, serving as a final resting point where enslaved Africans were…
Benin: Ouidah – Slave Route
The Ouidah Slave Route, a historic path in Benin, West Africa, symbolizes the harrowing journey of countless enslaved Africans who were forcibly taken…
Togo: Lome – Akodessawa Fetish Market
The Akodessawa Fetish Market in Lomé, Togo, is renowned for its extraordinary array of traditional voodoo artefacts and charms, drawing visitors from…
Sweden: Stockholm – Skogskyrkogården
Skogskyrkogården is a cemetery in Stockholm which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was created between 1917 and 1920 by two young architects…
Indonesia: Sulawesi – Death rituals and tongkonan houses
Tana Toraja is a region on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. It is unusual in that this community is predominantly Christian in a country where 90…
Denmark: Midtjylland – FÆNGSLET – Horsens Prison
Horsens State Prison in central Denmark closed its doors in 2006 and was the home of some of the Nordic nation’s most high-profile criminals…
Laos: Vientiane – Cooperative Orthotic and Prosthetic Enterprise
Since its creation in 1996, COPE has worked in close partnership with Lao government rehabilitation centres to provide nation-wide physical…
Cambodia: Siem Reap – APOPO Visitor Center
A chance to meet the hero rats that are helping to clear landmines in Cambodia. Apopo has trained the highly sensitive, almost-blind Gambian pouched…
South Africa: Gauteng – Exploring Johannesburg
Johannesburg is South Africa’s largest and fastest-growing city and is built on a history of racial division that achieved its most dramatic form in…
South Africa: Cape Town – Robben Island
Robben Island was used at various times between the 17th and 20th centuries as a prison, a hospital for socially unacceptable groups and a military…
UK: London – Tower of London
Tower of London, byname the Tower, royal fortress and London landmark. Its buildings and grounds served historically as a royal palace, a political…
France: Paris – Père Lachaise cemetery
The Père Lachaise cemetery takes its name from King Louis XIVs confessor, Father François d’Aix de La Chaise. It is the most prestigious and most…
New York: New York City – 9/11 Memorial & Museum
The 9/11 Memorial & Museum lay in the footprint of the twin towers of the World Trade Center that was attacked by terrorists deliberately flying…
Louisiana: New Orleans – St Louis Cemetary #1
Saint Louis Cemeteryis the name of three Catholic cemeteries in New Orleans, Louisiana. Most of the graves are above-ground vaults constructed in the…
Spain: Granada – Spanish Inquisition Museum
The Museum of the Spanish Inquisition is a fascinating insight into the cruel and grisly punishments inflicted during a turbulent time in Europe…
Pennsylvania: Gettysburg National Military Park
Gettysburg located in rural Pennsylvania probably would have remained a sleepy little town but for the American Civil War and the battle that took…
Pennsylvania: Valley Forge National Historical Monument
On our road trip through Pennsylvania we discovered a National Park that we were totally unfamiliar with. Valley Forge, located 18 miles northwest of…
South Dakota: Pine Ridge Reservation – Wounded Knee
Pine Ridge Reservation in south-western South Dakota is the vast homeland of the Oglala Lakota Nation, encompassing over two million acres of…
Montana: Little Bighorn
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in Montana preserves the site of the 1876 battle between the US 7th Cavalry and Lakota, Northern…
South Dakota: Minuteman Historic Site
Minuteman Missile National Historic Site near Wall, South Dakota, preserves the Cold War’s most powerful legacy — a real, demilitarised nuclear…
USA: California – Alcatraz National Park
Perched on a rocky island in San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz is a former federal penitentiary turned National Park landmark that offers visitors an…
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