Index - O

O'ahu >Hawaii

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA >Hanford, >Los Alamos & Bradbury Science Museum

Oak shot (nculear test) >Titan Missile Museum

oak tree of the Basque country >Gernika

OAS >Organization of American States

Lawrence Oates >Antarctica

Barack Obama >Vietnam Veterans Memorial & National Mall, Washington D.C. (>German Resistance Memorial Centre, Berlin); >Ghana

the Obel >Belfast, Northern Ireland

obelisks - Obelisco Hembra/Obelisco Macho >Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Obersalzberg >Eagle's Nest & Obersalzberg, Germany (cf. >Army Museum & Napoleon's tomb, Paris)

observation towers >watchtowers

obstetrics >Palazzo Poggi, Bologna; >Josephinum, Vienna

Occupation Museum, Riga, Latvia

Occupations-Museum, Tallinn, Estonia

Ocenario >Lisbon

O'Connell >Dublin, Ireland

October Square >Minsk, Belarus

Odeonsplatz >Munich

Oder River >Wroclaw, Poland

Oder-Neisse-Line >Cecilienhof, Potsdam, >Peenemünde, Germany

ODF (open-defecation-free) >India

Odra River >Wroclaw, Poland

Michael O'Dwyer >Jallianwala Bagh

The Odyssey, Belfast, Northern Ireland >Titanic Belfast Experience

Oecusse >East Timor

Oficinas Saltrieras >Chacabuco, Chile

Official IRA >Northern Ireland

Oflag IV-C >Colditz

Ofotbanen >Narvik, Norway

Ofotfjord, Norway >Narvik

Ofoten Museum >Narvik, Norway

Ohka (>Kamikaze) >Yushukan, Tokyo; >the "Enola Gay" at the Smithsonian, Washington D.C., >US Air Force Museum, Dayton, Ohio

Ohlsdorf cemetery, Hamburg, Germany

Ohrid >Macedonia

Oil detritus >Absheron peninsula, >mud volcanoes of Qubistan, Azerbaijan

oil fields >Azerbaijan, >Baku, >Absheron peninsula

oil industry >Azerbaijan, >Turkmenistan; cf. >East Timor history; >Falkland Islands; >ex-prison & maritime museum, Ushuaia

Oil Museum Wietze >Bergen-Belsen

oil rig cemetery of Lokbatan >mud volcanoes of Qobustan

Oil Rocks >Neft Dashlari, >Absheron peninsula, Azerbaijan

oil sand >Fort McMurray and the oil sand mines of north Alberta, Canada

oil trains >Kaiserwald, >Riga

Okinawa, Japan (>former Navy underground HQ, >Himeyuri memorial and Museum, >Kenji monument and cave, >Okinawa Peace Memorial Park, >Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum, >Todoroki cave) >Punchbowl, Honolulu, Hawaii

Okinawa Peace Memorial Park, Okinawa, Japan

Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum, Okinawa, Japan

Oklahoma City National Memorial, Oklahoma, USA

okonomiyaki >Hiroshima, Japan

Oktoberfest >Munich

Oktoberfest bombing 1980 >Munich

Okupatsioonide Muuseum >Occupations Museum, Tallinn, Estonia

Old Bridge >Mostar

Olden >Lovatnet, Norway

Claes Oldenburg >sepulchral museum, Kassel

Old Faithful geyser / Old Faithful Inn >Yellowstone, USA

Old Kond >Yerevan

Old Melbourne Gaol, Australia

Old Museum >Tito mausoleum and museum Belgrade

Old People's Home ruin >Sarajevo war ruins

Old Quarter >Hanoi

"Old Sparky" electric chair >West Virginia Penitentiary, USA

"Old Smokey" electric chair >Museum of Crime & Punishment, Washington D.C., USA

Old Town >Baku, >Riga, >Tallinn, >Vilnius

Old Towne >MVO, Montserrat

Old Trafford >IWM North, Manchester

Olga Benario >Bernburg

Ollague, Chile/Bolivia >Uyuni

Oliver Stone >My Lai, Vietnam, >Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, Dallas

Olof Palme assassination site >Stockholm, Schweden

Olšansky cemetery >Prague, Czech Republic

"Olympia" (movies by Leni Riefenstahl) >Olympic Stadium, Berlin, Germany

RMS Olympic >Alnwick, Great Britain; >Titanic Belfast Experience, >Titanic Quarter, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Olympic bell >Olympic Stadium Berlin

Olympic bobsleigh run >Sarajevo

Olympic Museum >Sarajevo

Olympic Stadium, Berlin, Germany

Olympics 1960 >Foro Italico, Rome

Olympics 1972 >Munich, >Haus der Geschichte Bonn

Olympics 1980 >Occupations Museum, >Soviet Tallinn

Olympics 1992 >Barcelona

Omagh bombing August 1998 >Northern Ireland

Omaha beach >Normandy D-Day landings and other WWII sites, France

ombu tree >Villa Grimaldi, Santiago de Chile

Ondrejsky cemetery, Bratislava, Slovakia

"One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" >Ekibastuz (regional museum), Kasachstan

one-eyed baby >Semey anatomical museum, Kazakhstan (cf. >cyclops)

"115 Days" Interpretation Centre, Corbera d'Ebre, Catalonia, Spain

One, World Trade Center >Ground Zero, New York

Ellison S. Onizuka >Onizuka Space Center, >Punchbowl, Honolulu, Hawaii

Onizuka Space Center, Hawaii

Onslow, West Australia >Montebello Islands

OPEC >Haus der Geschiche Bonn

open-cast coal mining pit >Bogatyr (cf. >Lausitz, >Hötensleben)

opera house >Oslo, Norway

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

Operation Barbarossa >Brest Fortress, >Great Patriotic War Museum, >Minsk, Belarus; >German-Russian Museum Karlshorst, Berlin; >9th Fort, Kaunas, Lithuania; >Katyn Museum, Warsaw

Operation Bagration >Glory Mound, Belarus

Operation Black Buck >Falklands War

Operation Blue Star >Amritsar

Operation Condor >Cementerio General, >Memorial Museum, Santiago de Chile

Operation Corporate >Falklands War

Operation Crossroads >Bikini, >Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas (cf. also >"Enola Gay")

Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm (>Gulf War) >USS Missouri

Operation Dux >Villa Torlonia, Rome

Operation Hardtack >Titan Missile Museum

Operation Hurricane >Montebello Islands, Australia

Operation Menace >Maison des Esclaves

Operation Mosaic >Montebello Islands, Australia

Operation Motorman >Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Operation Overlord >Normandy D-Day landings and other WWII sites, France

Operation Perejil (Haitian genocide of 1937) >history of the Dominican Republic

Operation Plowshare >Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas, >NTS; >Polygon

Operation Plumbbob >NTS

Operation Ranger >NTS

Operation Reinhard(t) >House of the Wannsee Conference, Berlin; >Belzec, >Chelmno, >Katyn Museum, Warsaw, >Radegast station, Lodz, >Sobibor, >Treblinka, >Dallas Holocaust Museum; > death camps, >Eichmann, >Reinhard Heydrich

Operation Rosario (cf. >Falklands War) >ex-prison & maritime museum, Ushuaia

Operation Silver Fox >Murmansk, Russia

Operation Upshot-Knothole >NTS

Operation Teapot >NTS

Operation Turquoise >Rwandan genocide, >Bisesero, >Murambi

Operation Valkyrie >German Resistance Memorial Centre, Berlin

Operation Weserübung >Red Cross Museum, Narvik

Opium Hill >Bukit Chandu, Singapore

Joshua Oppenheimer >Indonesia

Robert Oppenheimer >Manhattan Project; >Los Alamos; >Trinity (cf. >Museum of the Semipalatinsk Test Site)

optical illusion >Northern Forts, Karosta, Latvia

Opytnoe Pole >the Polygon, >Museum of the Semipalatinsk Test Site

Oradour-sur-Glane, France >Alsace-Moselle Memorial

Oranje Hotel, Surabaya >Sidoarjo (cf. Majapahit, >top-10 accommodations)

Orange Order >Northern Ireland

Orange Revolution >Kiev, >Ukraine

Orangerie >Dresden

orang utans >Indonesia, >Mandor

orcas (killer whales) >Falkland Islands

Order of the Liberation >Army Museum & Napoleon's tomb, Paris

Orenburg, Russia >Aralsk

Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe >OSCE

Organization of American States (OAS) >history of the Dominican Republic, >Mirabal House

orientalism >Yenidze, Dresden

origami paper cranes >Hiroshima, >Nagasaki, >Japan (>Ani, >National Museum of Nuclear Science & History)

Orinoco delta >Venezuela

Orkney Islands, Scotland >Dounreay

Orlando Letelier >Cementerio General, >Memorial Museum, Santiago de Chile

Orletti >Buenos Aires

Orongo >Easter Island

Orson Wells >Third Man tours of Vienna's sewers

Daniel Ortega >Nicaragua

Orthodox Serbs >Bosnia and Herzegovina, >Mostar

George Orwell >Nineteen Eighty-Four; >Spanish Civil War; >Spanish Civil War tour, Barcelona; >Internationals in Ebro exhibition; >Life in the GDR Museum, Berlin

Osama Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan >National 9/11 Memorial & Museum, New York

Oscar Wilde >Wilde

Oscar-Zero missile alert facility, North Dakota, USA (cf. >Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, South Dakota)

OSCE (cf. >Museum of the First President, Astana; >Nagorno-Karabakh; >Yerevan, Armenia)

Öskjavatn >Viti, Iceland

Oskemen >Ust-Kamenogorsk

Oslo, Norway (>Norwegian Resistance Museum, >Holocaust Centre, >Armed Forces Museum)

Oslobodenje newspaper publishing house >Sarajevo

Ossetia war >war museum, >Gori, >Georgia

ossuaries >dark destinations ordered by category (>catacombs of Paris; >catacombs beneath St. Stephen's cathedral, Vienna; >Sedlec; >Somme & Verdun)

Ossuary of Verdun >Somme & Verdun

Ostalgie >GDR

Ostankino TV tower/centre >Moscow

Östhammer, Sweden >Forsmark

Ostrov Vozrozhdeniya >Vozrozhdeniya Island (>Aral Sea)

Lee Harvey Oswald >Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, Dallas

OTH radar >Duga, Chernobyl, Ukraine

other dark and weird places >dark destinations ordered by category

other sources (>audio-visual; books; internet)

Ottawa Treaty >Landmine Museum

Otto Frank >Frank (>Anne Frank House, Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Otto Hahn >National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Ottoman empire >Bulgaria; >Montenegro; >Podgorica; >Belgrade; >Turkey

Otto-Wagner-Spital >Spiegelgrund, Vienna

Otto Weidt >Museum Otto Weidt's Workshop for the Blind, Berlin

Ötzi >Fjaerland glacier museum, Norway

Oudh (Princely State in the British Raj) >Lucknow, India

Outback >Australia

Ovcara Memorial Center, Vukovar, Croatia

overlap with other forms of tourism (>extreme-landscapes tourism; >grief tourism; >heritage tourism; >Jewish roots tourism; >middle-of-nowhere tourism; >modern >pilgrimages; >murder sites tourism; >roots tourism; >suicide tourism; >thanatourism; >underworlds tourism; >war tourism)

Overlord >Normandy D-Day landings and other WWII sites, France

overpopulation >climate change, >Easter Island, >India, >Rwanda, >Vatican

over-the-horizon (OTH) radar >Duga, Chernobyl, Ukraine

Ouvrage Schoenenburg, Maginot Line, France >Natzweiler-Struthof

Jesse Owens >Olympic Stadium, Berlin, Germany

oxygen plant >Peenemünde, Germany

ozone hole >Antarctica, >Falkland Islands

Ozzy Osbourne >Wall Museum East Side Gallery

Ozyorsk (Ozersk) >Mayak

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