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Da Binh Square, Hanoi  >Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum

Dachau, Germany  (>concentration camps) (cf. >Philadelphia)

Dadang Christanto  >Sidoarjo

"Dagger" (fighter aircraft)  >plane crash sites near Port Howard, Falklands

Dai-Ichi building (McArthur's HQ)  >Tokyo, Japan

Dakar, Senegal  (>Maison des Esclaves)

Dakota Building  >New York

Dakrong Bridge  >DMZ, Vietnam

Romeo Dallaire  >Rwandan genocide, >Camp Kigali, Rwanda, >UNAMIR

Dallas, Texas, USA  (>Sixth Floor Museum, >Dallas Holocaust Museum)

Dallas Holocaust Museum, Dallas, Texas, USA

Father Edward Daly  >Museum of Free Derry, >Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Damien  >Father Damien

Dampier, West Australia  >Montebello Islands

danger tourism (>beyond dark tourism)

Daniel Libeskind  >Libeskind

"Daniel's Story"  >United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C., USA

Danish colony  >Tranquebar, India

Danish Fort  >Tranquebar, India

Danish Resistance Museum, Copenhagen  >Denmark

Dansborg  >Tranquebar, India

danse macabre  >San Bernadina alle Ossa, Milan; >Castle and History Museum, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Danton  >catacombs of Paris

Danube  >Belgrade; >Budapest; >Kozloduy; >Bratislava, >Devin, >post-socialist tour; >cemetery of the nameless, >Vienna, >Zwentendorf nuclear power plant

Danzig  >Gdansk

Dardanelles  >Gallipoli

Dare memorial, East Timor

Darfur, Sudan  >Rwandan genocide;  >US Holocaust Museum

Dargaville  >Rainbow Warrior

Steponas Darius & Stasys Girenas  >War Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania

Darkometer ranking table

Darkometer ratings

dark places not to be visited > infamous dark places not to be visited

dark tourism – definition  >what is dark tourism; >the concept of dark tourism

"Dark Tourism" (book)  >Lennon/Foley, >commodification

Darth Vader  >Pavlodar, Kazakhstan

Darvaza gas fire crater  >Turkmenistan

Darwaza  >Darvaza

Darwin, Australia  >East Timor

Charles Darwin  >Goose Green & Darwin, >Fitzroy, Falklands; >Ushuaia, Argentina

Darwin House  >Goose Green & Darwin, Falklands

Dashnaks  >Sisian

Dashoguz, Turkmenistan  >Darvaza

Jose Celestino da Silva  >Aipelo, Liquica and Maubara, East Timor

Dauchau  >Philadelphia

Daugava River  >Janis Lipke Memorial Museum, >People's Front Museum, >Riga, Latvia

Daugavpils, Latvia  >Kaiserwald, Riga

Daughters of Bilitis  >Castro, San Francisco

David Lea  >Montserrat

Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona  >AMARG

Davit Gareja  >Georgia

Davy Crocket nuclear grenade launcher  >NTS

Dawn of Freedom monument  >Almaty, Kazakhstan

Dawson Island  >Chile

Dayak  >Mandor

Day of the Dead  >Mexico (>sepulchral museum, Kassel; >National Museum of Funeral History, Houston, Texas, USA)

Dayton Accords  >Bosnia and Herzegovina; >Serbia; >US Air Force Museum

Dayton peace agreement  >Dayton Accords

D-B-Tunnel  >Sarajevo War Tunnel

DC-3  >Tempelhof airport Berlin; >Thanks to the World Park, Banda Aceh

DC-9  >Museo per la Memoria di Ustica, Bologna, Italy

DC-10  >Antarctica

D-Day  >Normandy D-Day landings and other WWII sites, France; >Army Museum & Napoleon's tomb, Paris; >Imperial War Museum, London, >IWM Duxford; >San Francisco

The Dead Kennedys (punk band)  >San Francisco

dead on display  >dark destinations ordered by category

Dead Sea & Masada, Israel

Dealey Plaza  >Sixth Floor Museum, Dallas

Dearborn massacre  >Chicago

Dear Leader  >Kim Jong Il

death barracks  >Flossenbürg

death baths  >Gusen, Austria

death camps  >dark destinations ordered by category (cf. >concentration camps; >extermination camps; >Operation Reinhard) >Auschwitz-Birkenau; >Belzec; >Chelmno; >Majdanek; >Maly Trostenec; >Sobibor; >Treblinka

death flights  >ESMA, Buenos Aires, >Parque de la Memoria

Death Island  >Yaros

death marches  >concentration camps; >Buchenwald, >Flossenbürg, >Gross-Rosen, >Natzweiler-Struthof, >Sachsenhausen (cf. >Bataan, Philippines)

death masks  >Gyumri, Armenia; >crime museum, Vienna; >Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin; >Stalin Museum, Gori, Georgia

death museum  >Museum of Death, L.A.

death penalty  >executions; >Changi WWII tour, Singapore; >Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin; >Memorium Nuremberg Trials; >Münchner Platz Memorial, Dresden; >Rommani Nart prison museum, Bangkok; >Museum of Crime and Punishment, Washington D.C., >West Virginia Penitentiary, USA

Death Railway, Thailand  >Kanchanaburi, >Kwai Bridge, >Hellfire Pass;  >Changi WWII tour, >Singapore; >Army Museum & Napoleon's tomb, Paris; >National Memorial Arboretum, Great Britain

Death Road (= Yiungas Road)  >Bolivia

death squads  >Argentina; >El Salvador; >Nicaragua

death stairway/death stairs  >Todesstiege, >Mauthausen

Death Valley a) California,  >USA

Death Valley b) Atacama,  >Chacabuco, Chile

December Events of 1986  >Almaty, Kazakhstan, >KarLag, >Museum of the President's Cultural Centre, Astana

Debed Canyon, Armenia  >Gyumri, >Vanadzor

decade volcanoes  >Merapi  (cf. >Nyiragongo, >Mauna Loa, >Sakurajima)

decolonization  >East Timor history

decomposition without smell  >Trunyan basket burial site

Dede Mirabal  >Mirabal House, Dominican Republic

Deep Ellum  >Dallas, Texas

Deep Ocean Expeditions  >wreck of the Titanic

Defence Museum  >Armed Forces Museum, Oslo

Defence museum  >Boden fortress

Defenders of the Soviet Arctic during the Great Patriotic War  >Alyosha, >Murmansk, Russia

La Defense  >Paris

"Defense" monument  >Chicago

Obersturmführer Deffner  >Nemecka memorial, Slovakia

defibrillator  >Wall Museum East Side Gallery

deforestation  >Easter Island, >Easter Island Paradigm, >climate change

Daniel Defoe  >Chile

Degelen  >the Polygon, >Museum of the Semipalatinsk Test Site

'degenerate art' ("entartete Kunst")  >National Art Gallery, Tirana

Degerbergsfortet  >Boden Fortress, Sweden

degrees  >academic background

Jacob Geert Dekker  >slavery museum Kura, Curacao

Frederik de Klerk  >Robben Island, South Africa

Delaware River  >Philadelphia, USA

Delhi, India  (Gandhi Smriti, Nicholson cemetery)

Jeremy Deller  >Imperial War Museum, London

Delta 01 / Delta 09  >Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, South Dakota, USA

Delta Dagger interceptor jet  >Pacific Aviation Museum, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Vladimir Demikhov  >Paul Stradins Museum of the History of Medicine, Riga

Demilitarized Zone  >DMZ

Democracy Monument  >Bangkok, >monument to the 1973 uprising

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)  >Congo (cf. >Rwandan genocide)

Democratic Republic of East Timor  >East Timor

demonetization  >India

Denfert-Rochereau  >catacombs of Paris

DenkStätte Weiße Rose  >White Rose memorial museum, Munich

Denmark  (cf. Andaman & Nicobar and Tranquebar, India)

Alastair Denniston  >Bletchley Park, Great Britain

Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia  >Bali bombing memoria; >East Timor

Department of Energy (DOE)  >Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas, >Los Alamos & Bradbury Science Museum, >NTS

Depeche Mode  >music; >TV Tower, Vilnius

depleted uranium  >Military Museum Belgrade; >Vojnar Memorial, Czech Republic

Deportation and Resistance Museum  >Kaunas, Lithuania

deportation memorial site Hollandsche Schouwburg  >Amsterdam

deportation monument, Paris  (cf. >Platform 17, Berlin)

Deportation Museum, >Carpi, Italy

deportation trains  >ALZHIR; >Anhalter train station ruins & bunker, Berlin; >Auschwitz; >Dallas Holocaust Museum; >Drancy memorial, >Friedrichstraße station & Palace of Tears, Berlin; >Grutas Park; >Holocaust Memorial Center of Macedonia; >Illinois Holocaust Museum; >Holocaust Museum LA; >Maly Trostenets; >Neuengamme; >Platform 17, Berlin; >Radegast station, Lodz; >Rome; >Shoah Memorial, Milan; >Stutthof; >Tornakalns, Riga; >United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; >Westerbork; >Yad Vashem

"Der Blaue Engel" (movie 'The Blue Angel')  >Potsdam

MV Derbyshire  >Maritime & Slavery Museum, Liverpool

Derek Pettersson  >Falkland Islands, >Stanley and environs

Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland  (>Museum of Free Derry aka Bloody Sunday Museum)

desert  >AMARG (Sonora desert); >Algeria, >Reggane and In Ekker; >Aral Sea; >Atacama, Chile; >Darvaza; >Dead Sea & Masada, >Libya; >NTS; >Trinity

Dési Bouterse  >Suriname

De-Sovietization  >Stalin Museum, Gori, Georgia

Dessau, Germany  >Bernburg

De-Stalinization  >Stalin Museum, >Gori, >Tbilisi, >Georgia; >Red Square and Kremlin, Moscow; >Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin

detention centres/prisons  >dark destinations ordered by category

deterrent  >Cold War, >MAD, >nuclear tourism, >missile launch sites

Detka Canal  >Lodz, Poland

Dettifoss  >Viti, Iceland

Deuch  >Duch

deuterium  >Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum, Vemork

Deutsche Arbeitsfront ('German work front')  >Prora

Deutsche Bank  >National 9/11 Memorial & Museum, New York

Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbrüchiger  >shipwreck museum Cuxhaven

Deutsches Auswandererhaus  >Bremerhaven Emigration Center

Deutsches Museum  >Munich

Deutsches Spionagemuseum  >Spy Museum Berlin

de Valera, Eamon  >Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, >Crumlin Road Gaol, Belfast

Devastation Trail  >Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii

de Veuster, Joseph  >Father Damien, >Kalaupapa

"devil god" of Cerro Rico, Potosi  >Bolivia

Devil Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania

devil of Korneuburg  >Narrenturm – pathologic-anatomical museum, Vienna

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

Devil's Island, Iles du Salut, French Guyana

Devil Mountain  >Teufelsberg, Berlin

Devin, Bratislava, Slovakia

Devinska Kobyla, Bratislava, Slovakia

Dezhurnaya  >Kiev, Ukraine

DFW (= Dallas Ft Worth)  >Dallas

DGzRS (Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbrüchiger)  >shipwreck museum Cuxhaven

Dhaka, Bangladesh  >Liberation War Museum

Cut Nyak Dhien  >Banda Aceh

Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)  >Mexico (cf. >sepulchral museum, Kassel)

"Dialogue in the Dark" (>beyond dark tourism)

Jared Diamond  >climate change, >Easter Island

Diana's death  >Paris

Dian Fossey's grave at Karisoke, Rwanda

Diary of Anne Frank  >Anne Frank, >Anne Frank House, Amsterdam; >Anne Frank Centre, Berlin

diaspora  >Armenia,>Cape Verde, >Yerevan, >Holocaust, >Israel, >Jewish Heritage, >Ireland, >Montserrat, >Nagorno-Karabakh

Charles Dickens  >Eastern State Penitentiary, >Mutter Museum, Philadelphia, USA

Didube bus station, Tbilisi  >Gori, Georgia

Marlene Dietrich  >Spanish Civil War tour, Barcelona, >Potsdam

Diga del Vajont  >Vajont dam, Italy

Diga di Ravedis  >Vajont dam, Italy

Digit  >Dian Fossey's grave, Karisoke, Rwanda

Dili, East Timor  (Timorese Resistance Archive & Museum, Chega! exhibition, Santa Cruz cemetery, Xanana Reading Room)

Dimitar Blagoev  >Buzludzha, Bulgaria

Georgi Dimitrov  >Bulgaria, >Buzludzha, >Sofia

Dimtrov mausoleum  >Sofia, Bulgaria

DINA (former secret police in Chile)  >Memorial Museum, >Londres 38, >Villa Grimaldi, >Cementerio General, Santiago de Chile

Dragutin Dimitrijevic  >Sarajevo assassination site

Dimmuborgir  >Viti, Iceland

Hrant Dink  >Armenian Genocide Memorial, Yerevan

dinosaurs extinction  >Mexico

dioxin  >Agent Orange, >Vietnam, >Seveso

Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA)  >Londres 38, Santiago de Chile

Dirty Bottles pub  >Alnwick, Northumberland, Great Britain

"Dirty Harry" (nuclear test nickname)  >NTS

Dirty War  >Argentina

disabled/disabilities  >Grafeneck, >Hartheim; >Spiegelgrund/Steinhof; >T4

disappeared  >Argentina; >Chile

disasters  >environmental disasters, >industrial disasters, >natural disasters, >war, >wrecks

disaster tourism (cf. >categories of dark tourism)

"Disaster at Silo 7" (film)  >Titan Missile Museum

"Discovery"  >Antarctica

'dislocation'  >the concept of dark tourism, >United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C., USA; >Anne Frank Centre, Berlin

Disneyland  >Paris

District Six Museum, Cape Town, South Africa

Dith Pran  >Choeung Ek killing fields; >"The Killing Fields" (movie)

diving  >Andaman & Nicobar, >Bikini, >Montserrat, >Titanic

dizhurnaya  >Kazakhstan

DMZ  >Panmunjom, North Korea/South Korea

DMZ, Vietnam (>Hien Luong Bridge, >Vinh Moc tunnels)

Dobrinja  >Sarajevo War Tunnel

the "Dock"  >Churchill War Rooms, London

Docklands  >London  (cf. >Liverpool)

Documenta, Kassel, Germany  >sepulchral museum

documentation centre government bunker  >Marienthal government bunker

Documentation Centre Nuremberg rally grounds  >Nuremberg rally grounds documentation centre

Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW), Vienna, Austria

DOE (Department of Energy)  >Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas, >Los Alamos & Bradbury Science Museum, >NTS

"Dog Doo" transmitter  >the "Enola Gay" at the Smithsonian, Washington D.C.

Dogubayazit  >Ararat

Dokumentation Obersalzberg  >Eagle's Nest, Obersalzberg

Dokumentationsstätte Regierungsbunker  >Marienthal government bunker

Dolinka, Kazakhstan  >KarLag

Engelbert Dollfuß  >Military History Museum, Vienna

Dolomites  >Vajont dam, Italy

Dolon airbase  >Chagan, Kazakhstan

dolphins  >Aipelo, Liquica and Maubara, East Timor

The Dome  >Dounreay, >Dounreay exhibition, Thurso, Scotland

Dome Church  >Army Museum & Napoleon's tomb

Dome of the Rock  >Jerusalem, Israel

Dominican Republic

domino effect  >Chile, >East Timor history

Dom Joly  >"The Dark Tourist" (book); >former US embassy in Teheran, Iran, >Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, Dallas

Dom Rep  >Dominican Republic

Donaghmore Famine Workhouse Museum, Country Laois  >Ireland

Donald Campbell  >Campbell

Donald Rumsfeld  >Rumsfeld

Donegal, Ireland  >Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Dong Ha  >DMZ, Vietnam

Karl Döniz  >Memorium Nuremberg Trials

Doolittle Raid  >Pacific Aviation Museum, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Doomsday Clock  >National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Doomtown  >NTS

"door(way) of no return"  >Maison des Esclaves

"Door to Hell"  >Darvaza, Turkmenistan

doors-off helicopter flight  >Volcano helicoper flights, Hawaii

Dora-Mittelbau  >Mittelbau-Dora

Dossin barracks  > Mechelen

Fyodor Dostoevsky  >Semey, Kazakhstan

Douaumont  >Somme & Verdun

double dog  >Paul Stradins Museum of the History of Medicine, Riga

Kirk Douglas  >Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum, Vemork

Dounreay, Great Britain

Dow Chemical  >Union Carbide plant, >Remember Bhopal Museum, Bhopal

DÖW  >Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance

"Downfall" (movie)  >Berlin

Downing Street  >Churchill War Rooms, London

downwinders  >NTS

DPRK  >North Korea

Dracula (>Vlad Tepes, >Elizabeth Bathory, Slovakia >Romania, >Bran Castle, >Whitby)

Shlomo Dragon  >Sonderkommandos

Dragon Bridge  >Ljubljana, Slovenia

dragons  >Komodo

Saab "Draken"  >Military History Museum, Vienna

Drancy transit camp memorial, Paris (cf. >9th Fort, Kaunas, Lithuania; >Resistance museum, Lyon, France)

drawing offices  >Titanic Quarter, Belfast, Northern Ireland, >Titanic Tours

DRC  >Congo

dreadnought battleship  >USS Arizona

Dreilinden-Drewitz former border crossing point, Berlin >Checkpoint Bravo

Dreki  >Viti, Iceland

Dresden, Germany (Military History Museum, Bautzener Straße Stasi prison, Stadtmuseum, Münchner Platz Memorial)

Drewitz  >Dreilinden-Drewitz

drink  >food & drink

driving  >travel & environmental issues

drone  >KGB building, Riga; >Pripyat, Chernobyl, Ukraine

drought  >Cape Verde

"Dr. Strangelove" (movie)  >National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

drug barons  >Colombia

drug cartels  >Colombia

Drummondville, Quebec  >Asbestos, Quebec, Canada

Druskininkai  >Grutas Park

"Dr Who" (TV series)  >Mutter Museum, Philadelphia, USA, >TV Tower in Prague, Czech Republic; >Zwentendorf, Austria

Dry Valleys  >Antarctica

dual use infrastructure  >NATO bombing scars in Belgrade

Eva Duarte  >Evita, >Recoleta cemetery, Buenos Aires

Juan Pablo Duarte  >Fortaleza San Felipe, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic

Alexander Dubček  >post-socialist tour, >Slavin, >Bratislava, >DubnicaSlovakia (cf. >Prague Spring)

Dublin, Ireland (Kilmainham Gaol) (cf. >Northern Ireland)

Dublin and Monaghan bombings 1974 >Northern Ireland

Dubnica, Slovakia

Dubrovka theatre hostage drama  >Moscow

Il Duce  >Mussolini, >Mussolini crypt; >Foro Italico, Rome

Duce a noi  >Foro Italico, Rome;  >Mussolini crypt

Ducal crypt  >catacombs under St. Stephen's cathedral, Vienna

Duch  >Tuol Sleng/S-21; >Khmer Rouge

"Duck and Cover"  >National Museum of Nuclear Science & History; >IWM North, Manchester

Jackie Duddy  >Museum of Free Derry, Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Due Torri (Two Towers)  >Bologna, Italy

Duga, Chernobyl, Ukraine

Dukla Pass, Slovakia  (cf. >Slavin, Bratislava)

Dulles International Airport  >"Enola Gay", >Washington D.C., USA

Dumas Brothel  >Butte, Montana, USA

Dumitor mountains  >Montenegro

Dunbrody Famine Ship  >Ireland

Duncansby Head / Duncansby Stacks  >Dounreay

Dundee, Scotland  >Scotland's secret bunker

Dunderlandsdal  >Blood Road Museum, Norway

dunes  >Skede, Liepaja, Latvia

"Dungeons" (>beyond dark tourism), >London

dungeons of the KGB  >KGB cells museum, Tartu, Estonia

Dunkirk  >Narvik, Norway

Sir Edward "Weary" Dunlop  >Hellfire Pass

Dunnet Head  >Dounreay

Duomo (cathedral), Milan, Italy

DUP (Democratic Unionist Party)  >Northern Ireland

Durango, Spain  >Guernica/Gernika

Durbar  >Delhi

Durchgangslager  >transit camp

durian  >Jakarta, Indonesia

Durness, Scotland  >Dounreay

Dutch  >Netherlands

Dutch Antilles  >Curacao

Dutch colony  >Indonesia

Dutch fort  >Maubara, East Timor

Dutch Guiana  >Suriname

Dutch Resistance Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Dutch UN protection forces  >Srebrenica

Dux  >Duce, >Foro Italico, Rome

Duxford  >IWM Duxford (cf. >Imperial War Museum, London)

Dwyer  >O'Dwyer

Reginald Dyer  >Jallianwala Bagh

Bob Dylan  >New York, >National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

dynamite for sale at the local market, Potosi  >Bolivia

Dzhugashvili, Iosef/Soso  >Stalin Museum, Gori, Georgia

 

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