anencephaly >Mutter Museum, Philadelphia; >Narrenturm – pathologic-anatomical museum, Vienna; >Semey anatomical museum, Kazakhstan; >Paul Stradins Museum of the History of Medicine, Riga; >Palazzo Poggi, Bologna

Angela Merkel >Bautzener Straße, Dresden

Angel Falls >Venezuela

Angelikastraße former KGB villa of Valdimir Putin >Bautzener Straße, Dresden

Angel Island >Alcatraz

Angels' Bridge & Devil's Bridge >KGB cells museum, Tartu

Angkor Wat & Angkor Thom >Cambodia >Landmine Museum

Anglo-Irish Treaty >Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, >Ireland

Angola >Cape Verde Islands; >Maison des Esclaves; >Portugal; >Tarrafal prison camp; >East Timor history

Anhalter train station ruins & bunker, Berlin, Germany

anhydrite >Mittelbau-Dora

Ani, Turkey >Ani viewpoint, Armenia; >Gyumri

"A Night to Remember" (movie) >Titanic Belfast Experience

"Animal Farm" (book by >George Orwell) >Spanish Civil War

"An Inconvenient Truth" (documentary film) >Al Gore, >Fjaerland glacier museum, Norway

Anipemza >Ani viewpoint & Iron Curtain, Armenia

Ani viewpoint & Iron Curtain, Armenia

Anitkabir, Turkey (>Atatürk)

Ankara, Turkey >Anitkabir

Anlong Veng site of Pol Pot's cremation & Ta Mok's house, Cambodia

Kofi Annan >Museum of the First President, Astana; >UN Headquarters, New York; >East Timor history

Anne Frank (Anne Frank House Amsterdam; >Westerbork; >Bergen-Belsen,

>Jewish Museum Berlin, >Anne Frank Centre, Berlin)

Anne Frank Centre, Berlin, Germany

Anne Frank House, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Anne Frank statue >Anne Frank House, Amsterdam

anni di piombo (Years of Lead) >Bologna, Italy

Annie shot (nuclear test) >NTS

Anschluss >Austria; >Vienna

Antakalnis cemetery, Vilnius, Lithuania

Antarctica (cf. >ex-prison & maritime museum, >Ushuaia; cf. >Falkland Islands, >South Georgia)

antenna relic from the >WTC North Tower >Newseum, Washington D.C.

anti-aircraft gun bunkers >Flaktowers

anti-aircraft missiles >Devinska Koybla

anti-communism exhibition >Pancasila Sakti, Jakarta

Antietam >Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, USA

anti-fascist resistance >Münchner Platz Memorial, Dresden, >Buchenwald

Antigua >Montserrat

anti-Nukes movement >National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, >NTS; >Zwentendorf; >Japan

Anti-Russian propaganda >Georgia

Anti-War Museum, Berlin

"Anti-Terror Fence" / West Bank Barrier >Jerusalem

anthracite mining >Centralia, Pennsylvania, USA

"anthrax island" >Gruinard Island, Scotland

"Anthropoid" >Operation Anthropoid (>St Cyril and Methodius church crypt, Prague, >Lidice, Czech Republic)

Anthropological Museum, Port Blair >Andaman & Nicobar

Antofagasta, Chile >Chacabuco, >Uyuni, Bolivia

Antonio de Oliveira Salazar >Portugal

Antonio Rivero >Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute

Anton Karas >Third Man tours of Vienna's sewers

Anyer, West Java, Indonesia >Krakatoa

ANZAC >Gallipoli, >Hellfire Pass, >Bukit Chandu, Singapore

Apartheid (>Robben Island, South Africa)

Ape Cave >Mount St Helens

aperitivo >Milan, Italy

Apodeti >East Timor history

appeasement >Munich

Apple II (nuclear test) >NTS

Apollo 1 disaster >Onizuka Space Center

Apollo 13 >Onizuka Space Ceneter

Apollo moon landing missions >AMARG; >Barringer Meteor Crater; >Chacabuco, Atacama, Chile; >Hawaii; >Haus der Geschiche Bonn; >NTS; >Onizuka Space Centre, Hawaii; >Peenemünde, Germany; >Titan Missile Museum

aquarium >Immigration Museum, Paris

ARA (= Armada de la Republica Argentina) >General Belgrano, >Falklands War

Arab Spring >Checkpoint Charlie (cf. >Libya)

Arafat >International Friendship Exhibition, North Korea; >Museum of Independence, Baku, Azerbaijan

Aragats, Armenia >Spitak

Aragon (region in Spain) >Belchite, >Fayón

Aragon Offensive >Ebro, Spain

Viktors Arajs >Rumbula

Aralsk, Aral Sea, Kazakhstan

Aral Sea (Lake Aral), Kazakhstan/Uzbekistan >Aralsk

Ararat >Mt Ararat, meteor crater & Noah's Arc, Turkey; >Yerevan, >Armenia, >Sisian

Mt. Ararat, meteor crater & Noah's Ark, Turkey (cf. >Armenia; >Sisian, >Yerevan)

Arbanasi >Bulgaria

arboretum >Armenian Genocide Memorial, Yerevan; >National Memorial Arboretum, Great Britain, >Stanley, Falkland Islands

Arc de Triomphe >Paris (cf. >Pyongyang)

Archaeological Survey of India >The Residency, Lucknow

Archduke Frank Ferdinand >Franz Ferdinand

"Archipelago Gulag" (book) >Ekibastuz (regional museum)

Arch of Friendship >Kiev, Ukraine

Arch of Neutrality >Ashgabat, Turkmenistan; >Turkmenbashy Gifts Museum

Arch of Sorrow/Grief >ALZHIR

Arch of Triumph >Pyongyang, North Korea (cf. >Arce de Triomphe, >Paris)

Arctic >Iceland; >Kirkenes, Norway; >Murmansk, Russia; >Svalbard (Spitsbergen), >Pyramiden

Arctic convoys >Murmansk, Russia; >Churchill War Rooms, London

Ardeatine caves, Rome, Italy

Ardyn Halter >Gisozi Genocide Memorial Centre Kigali, Rwanda

Area 51 >Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas

Argentina (cf. >Bremerhaven Emigration Center)

Argentine Air Force >Fitzroy, Falklands, >Falklands War, >plane crash sites near Port Howard

Argentine Family Commission >Goose Green & Darwin, Falklands

Argentinian war cemetery, Darwin >Goose Green & Darwin, Falklands

Ariane rocket >French Guyana

"Arirang" >Mass Games, Pyongyang, North Korea

Arizona, USA >AMARG, >Barringer Meteor Crater, >Titan Missile Museum

"Arizona" >USS Arizona

Arjuna Wijaya statue >Jakarta, Indonesia

"Arkansas" >Bikini

Arkensas missile silo accident >Titan Missile Museum

Arktikugol >Pyramiden, Svalbard

Arlington National Cemetery, Washington D.C., USA (cf. >Punchbowl)

Armavir, Armenia >Metsamor, >Sardarapat

Armed Forces Museum >Jakarta, Indonesia

Armed Forces Museum, Moscow >Central Museum of Armed Forces

Armed Forces Museum, Oslo, Norway

Armenia (cf. >Ani, >Ararat)

Armenian Diaspora >Armenia, >Yerevan, >Nagorno-Karabakh

Armenian Genocide >Armenian Genocide Memorial, Yerevan; >Armenia; >Army Museum, Paris; >death marches; >Gisozi Genocide Memorial Centre, Kigali, Rwanda; >Ani, >Turkey

Armenian Genocide monument & memorial museum at Tsitsernakaberd, Yerevan, Armenia

Armenian-Russian friendship >Gyumri

Armia Krajowa >AK

Armistice Talks Hall >Panmunjom & DMZ, North Korea

arms factory >Dubnica, Slovakia

arms race >Cold War

Army Museum & Napoleon's tomb, Paris, France

Army Museum (Armemuseum) >Stockholm, Schweden

Arnold Strippel >Strippel

Galya Aroustamyan >Museum of Fallen Soldiers, Nagorno-Karabakh

Arpa River >Ani, Turkey (cf. >Ani viewpoint & Iron Curtain, Armenia)

Arpi >Gyumri

Arrol gantry >Titanic Quarter, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Arrow Cross >Budapest

Ars Electronica, >Linz >Spy Museum Berlin

Arsenal >Military History Museum Vienna

Arsenal Uprising 1918 >Kiev, Ukraine

Art nouveau >Riga, Latvia, >Vienna

Artsakh >Nagorno-Karabakh; >Mother Armenia & Military Museum, Yerevan

Artsakh State Museum, Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh

Artsvashem >Mother Armenia & Military Museum, Yerevan

Arusha, Tanzania >International Criminal Tribunal For Rwanda

Arusha Accords >Rwandan genocide

Arytom island >Absheron peninsula, Azerbaijan

Loreta Asanavičiūtė >TV Tower, Vilnius, >Antakalnis cemetery

asbestos >Asbestos, Quebec, Canada; >Wittenoom, Australia; >Palace of the Republic, Berlin, >Marienthal government bunker; >Westerbork, Netherlands

Asbestos, Quebec, Canada

Ascension Island >St Helena, >Falkland Islands

ascensores (lifts, funiculars) >Valparaiso, Chile (cf. Lisbon)

Asco I & II nuclear power plants >Ebro

ASDT >East Timor history

ash(fall) >Iceland, >Merapi, >Montserrat, >Sakurajima

Ashgabat, Turkmenistan (Turkmenbashy Gifts Museum) (also >Amritsar)

Ashland, Pennsylvania, USA >Centralia

Asia light >Singapore

Askeran >Nagorno-Karabakh

Askja >Viti, Iceland

(Mt) Aso, Japan

Asociacion de ex-combatientes historicos >Nicaragua

Assad >International Friendship Exhibition

assassination/murder sites >dark destinations ordered by category

assassination of Trujillo on 30 May 1961 >history of the Dominican Republic, >Resistance Museum, >Santo Domingo, >Castillo de Cerro

Asse II reporitory for radioactive waste, Germany

Assen >Westerbork

Associació del Poble Vell >ruined old town of Corbera d'Ebre

Associazione nazionale ex deportati (ANED – 'association of former deportees') >Deportation Museum, Carpi

Astana, Kazakhstan (Museum of the First President, Museum of the President's Cultural Centre)

asteroid impact >Mexico

Alfreo Astiz >ESMA, Buenos Aires

astronomical observatories >Hawaii

Atacama desert >Chile, >Chacabuco, >Chuquicamata; >Uyuni, Bolivia

Atameken >Astana, Kazakhstan

Atamu Tekena >Easter Island

Atatürk (>Anitkabir)

Atauro island >East Timor

Ateshgah fire temple >Absheron peninsula, Azerbaijan

Athens >Makronisos, >Yaros

SS "Atlantic Conveyor" >Fitzroy, >San Carlos, Falklands

Atlantic convoys >Armed Forces Museum, Oslo, >Norwegian Resistance Museum, Oslo; >Murmansk, Russia, >Churchill War Rooms, London

The Atlantic Ocean (>Falklands, >Iceland, >South Georgia, >St Helena, >Titanic, >Tristan da Cunha)

Atlantic Ocean Road, Norway >Falstad Centre

Atlantic slave trade >Maison des Esclaves, Senegal; >Ghana; >slavery museum Kura, Curacao; >Cape Verde Islands

Atlantic Wall, France (cf. >Normandy D-Day landings and other WWII sites)

atmospheric tests >Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas, >Bikini, >NTS, >the Polygon, >Trinity (in general: >nuclear testing)

Atocha station >Madrid, Spain

atomic power/sites >nuclear sites

atom(ic) bomb (cf. >Reggane and In Ekker, Algeria; Montebello Islands, Australia; >Cecilienhof Potsdam, Germany, >Haus der Geschiche Bonn; >Hack Green, Great Britain; >Hiroshima and >Nagasaki, >Japan; >the Polygon, Kazakhstan; >Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum, Vemork, Norway; >Bikini, >Tinian, Pacific; >Atomic Testing Museum, >NTS, >Los Alamos, >National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, USA)

atom bomb test >nuclear testing

Atombunker Harnekop (nuclear bunker), Germany

Atomic Annie cannon >National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, >NTS

Atomic Bomb Museum, Nagasaki, Japan

atomic cannon >National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Atomic City >Los Alamos & Bradbury Science Museum; >Richland, Hanford

Atomic Lake >the Polygon, >Museum of the Semipalatinsk Test Site; >Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas

Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas, USA (cf. >Museum of the Semipalatinsk Test Site)

atomic tourism >nuclear tourism (cf. >categories of dark tourism)

atomic weapons sites >dark destinations ordered by category

Atrocities Museum, Sinchon, North Korea

atrocities/massacre sites >dark destinations ordered by category

Mohammed Atta >National 9/11 Memorial & Museum, New York

David Attenborough >Fjaerland glacier museum, Norway

Richard Attenborough >Jallianwala Bagh

Clement Attlee >Cecilienhof Potsdam

Atuona >Marquesas islands

Auberge Îles du Salut >Devil's Island

Auburn system >West Virginia Penitentiary, USA

"audio walk" >Gusen, Austria

audio-visual sources (>other sources)

Auerbachs Keller >Leipzig

Augarten park >Flaktowers in Augarten >Vienna

Augusto Pinochet >Pinochet

Augusto Sandino >Sandino

Augustus >Rome, Italy

Aukos Laukas ('sacrifice field') >Kaunas, Lithuania

Aurora cruiser >Saint Petersburg

Ausweichführungsstelle (emergency relocation command centre) >Stasi bunker Machern

Ausweichsitz der Verfassungsorgane des Bundes >Marienthal government bunker

Auschwitz, Poland (cf. >concentration camps; >death camps; >extermination camps; >logo; >Illinois Holocaust Museum; >Imperial War Museum, London; >US Holocaust Memorial Museum; >Resistance Museum, Bergen; >Gisozi Genocide Memorial Centre Kigali; >Gross-Rosen; >9th Fort, Kaunas;>Drancy memorial, >deportation monument Paris, >Shoah memorial museum Paris)

Auschwitz-Lager >Gross-Rosen

Aussies = Australians >East Timor

Australia (cf. also >East Timor)

Australian Flag >Balibo, East Timor

Australian Government Department for Veterans' Affairs >Hellfire Pass

Austria (vs. Australia!)

Austro-Daimler >Military History Museum, Vienna

Austrofascism >Military History Museum, Vienna

Austro-Hungarian empire >Austria, >Hungary, >Bosnia and Herzegovina, >Slovakia, >Slovenia, >Sarajevo assassination site, >Belgrade

Auswandererhaus >Bremerhaven Emigration Center

Autobahn >Germany

auto-genocide (cf. >genocide; >Cambodia; >Choeung Ek killing fields)

Auyan Tepui >Venezuela

Avala TV tower >NATO bombing scars in Belgrade

Aviation Museum, Belgrade, Serbia

Aviation Museum, Riga, Latvia

AWACS >Paris; >Military History Museum, Dresden, Germany

Awadh >Lucknow, India

Awami >Bangladesh

Axis of Continuity/Axis of Exile/Axis of the Holocaust >Jewish Museum Berlin

axis of evil >North Korea, >modern art gallery with exhibition of gifts to Tito, Podgorica

Axis powers (>Germany, >Italy, >Japan; cf. >Bulgaria, >Romania; >Mussolini, >WWII)

Ayers Rock >Uluru

Azaria Chamberlain >Australia

Azerbaijan

Azeri >Azerbaijan (>Nagorno-Karabakh)

Charles Aznavour >Gyumri

Azucena Villaflor de Vicenti >ESMA, Buenos Aires

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