Dark destinations ordered by category
dead on display
medical exhibitions
cemeteries, graves
mausoleums
catacombs, crypts, ossuaries
funeral museums
murder/assassination sites
suicide sites
atrocities/massacres/terrorism
executions
persecution/repression/slavery
prisons/detention & torture centres
gulags
concentration camps
death camps
'euthanasia' / medical crimes
genocide
Holocaust
Jewish heritage sites
Nazi sites
communism sites
socialist realism
cult of personality
revolution/resistance sites
World War One sites
World War II sites
post-WWII war sites
Cold War sites
Iron Curtain/fortified borders
missile launch sites
bunkers
underground dark sites
atomic bombing/nuclear weapons
nuclear installations
accidents
industrial disasters/wastelands
natural disaster sites
environmental disaster sites
volcanoes
wrecks/wreckages
ruins
ghost towns
emigration/displacement
middle-of-nowhere sites
islands
cities
other dark and weird places
There is some overlap between these categories in many cases, but that's actually a good thing because a certain place can of course be of interest to the traveller for various reasons, sometimes for several reasons at the same time. Some of the categories are not actually categories of dark, strictly speaking, but rather general categories, e.g. cities, which however can also be also useful. Within each category, the individual places are ordered by country, in alphabetical order of first country, then name of the site. As usual: if you can't find a particular place or a category you're looking for, refer to the
index – it might be that it's subsumed under an entry with a different heading.
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