The Lure of Dark Tourism: Murder and Mayhem
Places like Cambodia’s Killing Fields, Auschwitz, New York’s Ground Zero, or the Wolf’s Lair where Hitler barely survived an assassination attempt in 1944, exert a powerful pull on travelers.
But what’s the fascination?
Professor John Lennon of Glasgow University wrote a book exploring exactly the question, why do we want to travel to dark places: “Dark Tourism: The Attraction of Death and Disaster.”
The trend is so strong, The Atlantic Magazine report
