Dark destinations ordered by category
(Cf. also the outline of the broader basic categories of dark tourism and the section on categories of tourism overlapping with dark tourism as well as the delimitation of those considered beyond dark tourism proper here.)
atrocities/massacres/terrorism
persecution/repression/slavery
prisons/detention & torture centres
Iron Curtain/fortified borders
atomic bombing/nuclear weapons
industrial disasters/wastelands
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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