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Dark Tourism
Dark tourism (also black tourism or grief tourism) is tourism involving travel to sites associated with death and suffering. Thanatourism, derived from the Ancient Greek word thanatos for the personification of death, is associated with dark tourism but refers more specifically to violent death; it is used in fewer contexts than the terms dark tourism, grief tourism, and quite tourism.
This includes castles and battlefields such as Culloden in Scotland and Bran Castleand Poienari Castle in Romania; sites of disaster, either natural or man made such as Hiroshima in Japan, Chernobyl in Ukraine and the Ground Zero in New York; prisons now open to the public such as Beaumaris Prison in Anglesey, Wales; and purpose built centers such as the London Dungeon.
