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Dark tourism: following a gruesome travel itinerary

Visitor attractions historically associated with death, destruction, and tragedy

Dark tourism: following a gruesome travel itinerary
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João Martins
29/04/2025 15:20 ‧ 1 month ago | StarsInsider

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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.

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