Thanatourist destination
Thanatourism = "travel to locations wholly, or partially, motivated by the desire for actual or symbolic encounters with death, depravity or disaster". See also this site
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Auschwitz Birkenau | Holocaust site | |
| Australian Convict Sites | Port Arthur | |
| Bikini Atoll | apparentlye there are some tourist facilities (AB ev) | |
| Cold winter deserts of Turan | Aral Sea | |
| ESMA Site Museum | ||
| Forts and Castles Gold Coast | Slave Dungeons | |
| Fray Bentos | slaughter house | |
| Fujisan | Aokigahara Forest: history of suicides and the place has long been associated with death (wiki) | |
| Funerary and memory sites of the First World War | Doumaumont Ossuary | |
| Genbaku Dome | Atom Bomb site | |
| Guanajuato | Museum of Mummies | |
| Island of Gorée | ||
| Kathmandu Valley | Pashupatinath cremation ghats | |
| Kremlin and Red Square | Lenin mausoleum | |
| Masada | ||
| Memorial Sites of Genocide | ||
| Pompei | ||
| Robben Island | ||
| Rome | Colosseum: "Some also regard it as one of the oldest dark-tourism sites, because the arena was in Ancient Roman times used for brutal bloodbath “games” such as gladiator fights and throwing people sentenced to death to the lions or other wild animals – all to the public delight of tens of thousands of spectators." | |
| Sighisoara | Dracula connotations | |
| Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution | Hashima | |
| Valongo Wharf | "It is a site of conscience, which illustrates strong and tangible associations to one of the most terrible crimes of humanity, the enslavement of hundreds of thousands of people creating the largest forced migration movement in history." (OUV) | |
| Venice and its Lagoon | Poveglia: "the walls of the ancient buildings on the island are covered in vines and stained with graffiti left by morbidly curious travellers – known as dark tourists." (see link) |
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