Dark tourism

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Dark tourism is the travel to sites associated with death and suffering.

This includes sites of pilgrimage such as to Rome, Italy and the site of St Peter’s death, castles and battlefields such as Culloden near Inverness, Scotland, sites of disaster, either natural or man made such as Ground Zero in New York, USA, prisons now open to the public such as Beaumaris Prison in Anglesey, Wales, and purpose built centers such as the London Dungeon in England.

In a class of its own, and the site which defines Dark Tourism is Auschwitz, Poland. This is the site of a Nazi extermination camp which is now open to visitors from all over the world.