Categories of dark-tourism destinations:

 

Atrocities/massacres/terrorist attacks

 
Martyrs' Cemetery & Mother Albania, Tirana, Albania

Algiers, Algeria

– Grytviken, South Georgia, Atlantic

Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia

Martyrs' Lane, Baku, Azerbaijan

Museum of Independence, Baku, Azerbaijan

Liberation War Museum, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Minsk, Belarus

Khatyn, Belarus

Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Museum of crimes against humanity and genocide, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina

Sofia, Bulgaria

Choeung Ek killing fields, Cambodia

Preah Vihear, Cambodia

Tuol Sleng, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Memorial Museum, Santiago, Chile

Villa Grimaldi – Parque por la Paz, Santiago, Chile

Nanjing massacre memorial, Nanjing, China

Unit 731 Museum, Harbin, China

Ovcara Memorial Centre, Vukovar, Croatia

Museum of the National Struggle, Nicosia, Cyprus

Museum of Barbarism, North Nicosia, Cyprus (north)

National Struggle Museum, North Nicosia, Cyprus (north)

Lidice, Czech Republic

history of the Dominican Republic

Casa Caoba, Dominican Republic

Resistance Museum, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

El Mozote, El Salvador

East Timor

Aipelo, Liquica and Maubara, East Timor

Baucau, East Timor

Balibo, East Timor

Chega! exhibition, Dili, East Timor

Santa Cruz cemetery, Dili, East Timor

Timorese Resistance Archive & Museum, DiliEast Timor

Hawzen, Ethiopia

Mekele Tigrayan Martyrs Monument & Museum, Ethiopia

Red Terror Museum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Oradour-sur-Glane, France

Tbilisi, Georgia

German-Russian Museum, Berlin, Germany

– 'Topography of Terror', Berlin, Germany

Military History Museum, Dresden, Germany

Bullenhuser Damm, Hamburg, Germany

Haus der Geschichte Bonn, Germany

Police Museum, Hamburg, Germany

Imperial War Museum, London, Great Britain

Guatemala

Jonestown, Guyana

1956 Memorial, Budapest, Hungary

India

Amritsar, India

Jallianwala Bagh, AmritsarIndia

Kanpur, India

Wagah, India/Pakistan

Bali bombing memorial, Kuta, Bali, Indonesia

Mandor killing fields, West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Ardeatine caves, RomeItaly

the Colosseum, Rome, Italy

Bologna, Italy

Museo per la Memoria di Ustica, BolognaItaly

Fossoli, Italy

Foiba di Basovizza, Trieste, Italy

Himeyuri Memorial and Museum, Okinawa, Japan

Kosovo

Prekaz, Kosovo

Pristina, Kosovo

Bikernieku, Riga, Latvia

Rumbula, RigaLatvia

Skede, Karosta, Liepaja, Latvia

9th Fort, Kaunas, Lithuania

– KaunasLithuania

Ponary, Lithuania

TV Tower and January 13 exhibition, Vilnius, Lithuania

Marquesas islands, French Polynesia, Pacific

Shushi, Nagorno-Karabakh

Independence Museum, Windhoek, Namibia

Atrocities museum, North Korea

Northern Ireland

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Black Taxi Tours, Belfast, Northern Ireland

East Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Falls Road, West Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Irish Republican History Museum, West Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Milltown Cemetery, West Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Shankill, West Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Museum of Free Derry (Bloody Sunday Museum), Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Tower Museum, Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Red Cross Museum/War Museum, Narvik, Norway

Eagle Pharmacy, Kraków, Poland

Schindler's factory, Kraków, Poland

Radogoszcz prison, Lodz, Poland

Palmiry, Poland

Piata Revolutiei, Bucharest, Romania

Moscow, Russia

Museum of Contemporary History, Moscow, Russia

Museum of Political History, St Petersburg, Russia

Volgograd, Russia

Camp Kigali Belgian Memorial, Kigali, Rwanda

Singapore (Sook Ching massacres)

Changi WWII tour, Singapore

Kaliste, Slovakia

Nemecka, Slovakia

Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa

Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, South Africa

Soweto & Mandela House, Johannesburg, South Africa

Barcelona Spanish Civil War walking tour, Spain

Guernica, Spain  (also Museo de la Paz)

Lemoniz, Spain

Madrid, Spain

– Mariënburg, Suriname

Moiwana, Suriname

Stockholm, Sweden (German embassy siege; Norrmalmstorg hostage taking site)

2-28 Memorial Museum, TaipeiTaiwan

National 228 Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

Hellfire Pass, Thailand

monument to the 1973 uprising, Bangkok, Thailand

Thailand-Burma Railway Centre, Kanchanaburi, Thailand

Transnistria

Babi Yar, Kiev, Ukraine

War museums & Rodina Mat, Kiev, Ukraine

Ground Zero, New York, USA

National 9/11 Memorial & Museum, "Ground Zero", New York, USA

9/11 Tribute Center (formerly "Tribute WTC"), New York, USA

Museum of Crime & Punishment, Washington D.C., USA

the Pentagon & 9/11 monument, Washington D.C., USA

Wounded Knee, South Dakota, USA

Oklahoma City National Memorial, USA

My Lai, Vietnam

War Remnants Museum, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam

 

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