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R-12 (SS-4)  >Plokstine missile base, Lithuania

Rabaul, New Britain, PNG  >Pacific Aviation Museum, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Rab concentration camp memorial, Croatia  (cf. >Shoah Memorial, Milan)

John Rabe >Nanjing

race a) = arms race; >Cold War

race b) >persecution, >genocide, >Rwanda, >Hartheim, >history of the Dominican Republic

race riots (1995/2001) >Bradford

racing accident >Uyuni, Bolivia

Rachid Taha >Immigration Museum, Paris

Radegast station, Lodz, Poland

radiacs & Geiger counters >Hack Green secret nuclear bunker, Great Britain

radioactive pollution  >Asse II, >Chernobyl, >Chernobyl NPP, >Pripyat, >Chernobyl Museum, Kiev >Hiroshima & >Nagasaki, >Mayak, >Reggane and In Ekker, >the Polygon (Semipalatinsk Test Site)

radioactive waste repository  >Asse II; >nuclear sites

radio bunker >Boden Fortress, Sweden

Radio Free Derry >Museum of Free Derry, Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland

radio locator / radio telescope  >Irbene, Latvia

radio tower >Gaustabanen, Rjukan, Norway

Radogoszcz prison, Lodz, Poland

radomes (= radio domes)  >Teufelsberg, >Tempelhof airport, Berlin

Radovan Karadzic >Karadzic

Simon Radowitzky >ex-prison & maritime museum, Ushuaia

RAF >Eagle's Nest, Obersalzberg, >Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church ruins & memorial hall, Berlin, >Tempelhof airport Berlin; >Goose Green & Darwin, Falklands; >Red Cross Museum/War Museum, Narvik

R.A.F. (Red Army Faction) >Haus der Geschichte Bonn; >Stockholm

RAF Brize Norton >Falkland Islands

RAF Mount Pleasant >Falkland Islands, >Stanley and environs

Rafayel Israyelian >Mother Armenia & Military Museum, Yerevan (cf. >Sardarapat)

Raffles Hotel  >Singapore; >Sidoarjo

railway museum  >Brest, Belarus

Railway of Death >Death Railway (cf. >Blood Road Museum, Norway)

Railway of the Youth (or Track of Youth)  >Slovakia

Rainbow Falls  >Hawaii, >Volcano helicopter flights

rainbow flags  >Castro, San Francisco

"Rainbow Warrior" (wreck of), New Zealand

Jānis Rainis  >Forest and Brothers' Cemeteries, Riga

Raisa Gorbachova >Gorbachova

Rajastan  >India

Raj Ghat  >Delhi, India

Rakata Island  >Krakatoa

Ramfis Trujillo  >history of the Dominican Republic

Ramnefjell  >Lovatnet, Norway

Rammstein  >music; >Life in the GDR Museum, Berlin

José Ramos-Horta  >East Timor history; >Balibo, >Xanana Reading Room, >Dili, East Timor

Ramstein, Germany  >Museo per la Memoria di Ustica, Italy; >Paris

Ramybes Park  >Kaunas, Lithuania

Ranch School >Los Alamos & Bradbury Science Museum

Rano Kau >Easter Island

Rano Raraku >Easter Island

Raoul Wallenberg  >Wallenberg

Rapa Nui / Rapanui  >Easter Island

Rapa pyramid, Poland

rape  >Congo; >history of the Dominican Republic, >Casa Caoba; >Nanjing; >Rwandan genocide; >Serbia

Rapid City, South Dakota  >Minuteman missile silo

"Rapier" SAMs  >Fitzroy, >San Carlos, Falklands

Rappershausen >Behrungen

Rasdorf >Point Alpha

Raseiniai prison, Lithuania

Ratko Mladic >Mladic

Rattlesnake Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA >National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

rattlesnakes >Titan, >Trinity

Ravensbrück, Germany (>concentration camps) >Army Museum & Napoleon's tomb, >Pere Lachaise, Paris

le Ravine de la Mort >Natzweiler-Struthof

RBMK-1000 reactor  >Chernobyl NPP

RDS-1 ("Joe One") >the Polygon, >Museum of the Semipalatinsk Test Site

RDS-6s >the Polygon

RDS-37 >the Polygon

Reactor B (and C to N)  >Hanford

reactor core >Zwentendorf, Austria

reactor Block 4  >Chernobyl NPP

reactor hall >Zwentendorf, Austria

Reading Terminal Market >Philadelphia, USA

readymade art  >Imperial War Museum, London

Ronald Reagan >Cold War; >Star Wars; >El Mozote, >El Salvador; >Checkpoint Charlie; >former US embassy in Teheran, Iran; >Haus der Geschichte Bonn; >Oscar-Zero

"Real IRA"  >Northern Ireland

Rebellion of 1857 (aka "Mutiny of 1857", or "First War of Independence")  >India, >Delhi, >Nicholson Cemetery, >Kanpur, >Lucknow, >The Residency; >Cellular Jail, Port Blair, >Andaman & Nicobar

rebellion of 1905  >Independence Museum, Lodz

Rebirth Island  >Vozrozhdeniya Island (>Aral Sea)

Rechenzentrum ('data processing centre')  >Potsdam

Recoleta cemetery, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Recoleta, Santiago de Chile  >Cementerio General

reconciliation village >Rwanda

Red Army Faction >R.A.F.

Red Baron (Manfred von Richthofen)  >Invalidenfriedhof, Berlin

Red Crescent >Red Cross Museum, Geneva

Red Cross >Gyumri; >Museum of Missing Soldiers; >Red Cross Museum; >Theresienstadt; >Villa Grimaldi, Santiago de Chile

Red Cross Museum, Geneva, Switzerland

Red Cross Museum/War Museum, Narvik, Norway

Red Forest  >Chernobyl

Red Fort  >Delhi, India

red Indians >Wounded Knee (>"political correctness", >native Americans)

red light district >Amsterdam; >Hamburg

Red Mountain Fort >Boden fortress

Red Orchestra >German Resistance Memorial Centre, Berlin

Le Redoutable nuclear submarine, Cherbourg, France

Red Square & Kremlin, Moscow

Redstone rocket >National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

re-education facility  >Vojnar Memorial, Czech Republic

re-entry vehicle (aka nuclear warhead of an ICBM)  >National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, >US Air Force Museum, >Minuteman site, >Oscar-Zero, >Titan Missile Museum; >Hack Green

referendum on nuclear power  >Zwentendorf, Austria

Reflecting Pool  >Vietnam Veterans Memorial & National Mall, Washington D.C. (>Oklahoma City National Memorial)

Reflections at Bukit Chandu, Singapore

refugee camps  >Singapore, >Indonesia; >Goma, Congo, cf. >Rwandan genocide, >Interahamwe

refugee camp memorial museum, Berlin >Marienfelde

Refugee Children Movement >Friedrichstraße station & Palace of Tears, Berlin

Reggane and In Ekker, Algeria

regional museum of history and local lore >Kazakhstan, >Aralsk, >Ekibastuz regional museum, >Pawlodar, >Semey

rehabiliation centre  >Ligatne Soviet bunker, Latvia

Reich Chancellery >Berlin, >Eagle's Nest, Obersalzberg, >Topography of Terror; >Imperial War Museum, London

Reich Eagle  >Imperial War Museum, London; >Lesniewo Sluza, >Wolfschanze, Poland

Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia = Reinhard Heydrich >St Cyril and Methodius church crypt, Prague, >Lidice, Czech Republic

Reichsicherheitshauptamt (>RSHA) = 'Reich security Main Office' >Memorium Nuremberg Trials, >St Cyril and Methodius church crypt, Prague (cf. >Heydrich, >SS, >Topography of Terror)

Reichstag, Berlin (cf. >German-Russian Museum Karlshorst, Berlin; >Illinois Holocaust Museum; >war museum, Kiev)

Pat Reid >Colditz, Germany

Reims, France >German-Russian Museum Karlshorst, Berlin

Reinhard(t) >Operation Reinhard

Reinhard Heydrich >Heydrich

relay batons >Tito mausoleum and museum Belgrade

Remember Bhopal Museum, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

Remember Bhopal Trust  >Remember Bhopal Museum

Remembrance Gardens, Omagh >Northern Ireland

Remlingen, Germany  >Asse II

Malcolm Rennie  >Balibo, East Timor

repatriates >Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park; >Marienfelde refugee camp memorial museum, Berlin

Reperes exhibition >Immigration Museum, Paris

repository for radioactive waste  >Asse II

"Reppresaglia" >Ardeatine caves

reprisals  >Lidice, Czech Republic; >Muzeum SNP, >Nemecka, >Kalište, Slovakia

Republicans (cf. >Nationalists)  >Ireland, >Northern Ireland; >USA; >Spanish Civil War

Republic of China  >Taiwan

Republic of Cyprus  >Cyprus

Republic of Ireland  >Ireland

Republic of Macedonia  >Macedonia

Republic of Srpska  >Bosnia and Herzegovina, >Sarajevo

Republic of Užupis  >Vilnius, Lithuania

Republic Square  >Almaty, Kazakhstan; >October Square, Minsk, Belarus

Republika Srpska  >Republic of Srpska

research (>academic background)

resettlement camps  >East Timor history

resettlers (self-settlers)  >Chernobyl

the Residency, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

resistance against the Nazis  >Stauffenberg, >Wolfschanze; >German Resistance Memorial Centre, Berlin; >Munich; >White Rose memorial museum; >Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance; >Denmark; >Dutch Resistance Museum; >Resistance (France); >Ardeatine Caves, >Bologna, >Museo Storico della Liberazione, Rome; >Janis Lipke Memeorial Museum, Riga; >Norwegian Resistance Museum, Oslo, >Resistance Museum, Bergen; >Warsaw Uprising Museum, >Ghetto Trail, Warsaw

Resistance Museum, Bergen, Norway

Resistance museum, Lyon, France

Resistance Museum, Rome, Italy

Resistance Museum, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Resistance (France) >Resistance museum, Lyon, >catacombs of Paris, >Army Museum & Napoleon's tomb, >Natzweiler-Struthof

resistance museums  >Bologna, Italy; >Dutch Resistance Museum, Amsterdam; >Norwegian Resistance Museum, Oslo; >Resistance museum, Lyon, France; >Museo Storico della Liberazione, Rome; >Museo de la Resistencia Dominicana, Santo Domingo

resistance sites >revolution >dark destinations ordered by category"

Restrisiko" (film) >Zwentendorf, Austria

'retaliation weapon' >V1 / V2

Retirement Home >Old People's Home ruin

Reunification of Germany 1990 >Germany, >Haus der Geschichte Bonn, >Berlin, >Berlin Wall

Reunification Hall >War Remnants Museum

Reunification Monument >Hien Luong Bridge, Vietnam

La Reunion >Paris

Reval = old name for >Tallinn

revisionism >Marx & Engels, Berlin; >lost places

revolutionary murals >Nicaragua

revolution/resistance sites >dark destinations ordered by category

Rex Hotel >War Remnants Museum

Rex Hunt, govenor >Falklands War, >Stanley and environs, Falkland Islands

Reykjahlid >Viti, Iceland

Reykjavik >Iceland (>Heimaey)

Trent Reznor  >Nine Inch Nails, "The Downward Spiral", >Museum of Death, L.A.

RFA (= Royal Fleet Auxiliary) Sir Tristram & RFA Sir Galahad >Fitzroy, Falklands

Rhein-Main airbase >Tempelhof airport, Berlin

Rhine, Germany >Marienthal government bunker

Rhone >Resistance museum, Lyon, France

rhubarb  >Alnwick Poison Garden, Great Britain

Riba-roja reservoir  >Fayón

Joachim von Ribbentrop >Memorium Nuremberg Trials, >Molotov-Ribbentrop-Pact

Sebastiano Ricci  >San Bernadino alle Ossa, Milan

Richard Burton >Burton

Richard Kandt >Kigali, Rwanda

Richard von Weizsäcker >Weizsäcker

richest hill on Earth  >Butte, Montana, USA

Richland  >Hanford

Richmond Hill  >MVO, Montserrat

Richter Scale  >Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

Manfred von Richthofen  >Red Baron

Ron Ridenhour  >My Lai

Leni Riefenstahl  >Nuremberg rally grounds documentation centre; >Potsdam; >Olympic Stadium, Berlin, Germany

Riese  >Gross-Rosen

Riflemen monument  >Riga, Latvia

Rift Valley (Great Rift Valley) >Rwanda, >Dead Sea & Masada, Israel

Riga, Latvia (Museum of the Occupation of Latvia, war museum, People's Front Museum, Museum of the Barricades, Tornakalns deportation memorial, Soviet Victory Monument, KGB building, Pokrov cemetery, aviation museum, Paul Stradins Museum of the History of Medicine, Jews in Latvia documentation cnetre, Riga Ghetto Museum, Janis Lipke memorial museum, Bikernieku, Forest and Brothers cemetery, Kaiserwald memorial, Rumbula)

Riga airmuseum  >Aviation Museum, Riga

Riga Ghetto Museum, Riga, Latvia

Righteous Among the Nations  >Yad Vashem (>Oskar Schindler, >Janis Lipke, >Karl Plagge, >Chiune Siguhara, >Raoul Wallenberg, >Otto Weidt); >Krakow; >Budapest; >9th Fort, Kaunas; >Vilnius, Lithuania; >National History Museum, Tirana; >Illinois Holocaust Museum; >Holocaust Museum LA, >Museum of Tolerance, L.A.; >Minsk, Belarus

Rinca, Indonesia  >Komodo

Ring of Fire  >volcanoes; >Japan; >Volcanoes National Park, >Hawaii; >Mount St Helens, USA; >Chile; >Nicaragua; >New Zealand

Rio de la Plata >Buenos Aires

Rio Gallegos >Ushuaia, Argentina

Rio Grande >El Paso, >National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, Albuquerque

riots >Bradford; >Drancy memorial; >West Virginia Penitentiary, USA

risk from radiation  >Chernobyl

River Association for the Study of Historical and Archaeological Heritage of the Terres de l'Ebre  >Lo Riu

River Bug  >Brest Fortress, >Brest, Belarus; >Sobibor, >Treblinka, Poland

River Ganges  >Kanpur, India (cf. also >Delhi)

River Kwai >Kwai Bridge, >Kanchnanaburi

Antonio Rivero >Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute

River Plate  >Buenos Aires

River Spree  >Spree

rivets  >Titanic Belfast Experience

Rjukan, Norway  >Gaustabanen, >Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum, Vemork

RMS (= Royal Mail Ship)  >RMS "St Helena", >Titanic

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

RMS "St Helena"  >St Helena

RMS "Titanic"  >Titanic

Road of Blood  >Blood Road Museum, Norway

Road of Bones (Kolyma highway)  >Magadan

Road of Memory  >Maly Trostentes, Minsk, Belarus

Road to Death memorials  >Chelmno

"Roads to Freedom" exhibition, Gdansk, Poland

Roald Amundsen  >Amundsen

Roaring Forties  >Falkland Islands

Robben Island, Cape Town, South Africa

Roberto Escobar >Colombia

Robert Oppenheimer >Oppenheimer

Robert Peary >Peary

Robert Falcon Scott >Scott

Robespierre >catacombs of Paris

Robin Hood  >Alnwick, Northumberland, Grerat Britain

Robinson Crusoe Island  >Chile

ROC  >Royal Observer Corps

the Rock  >Alcatraz

Rock Aid Armenia  >Spitak

rockets  >ICBM, >missile launch sites; >Baikonur; >Peenemünde, Germany

rocket science  >Peenemünde, Germany

rockhopper penguins >Falkland Islands

Rockhopper Point >Falkland Islands

Al Rockoff >Choeung Ek killing fields; >"The Killing Fields" (movie)

the Rockpile >DMZ, Vietnam

Rocky Mountains, USA  >Butte, Montana; >Yellowstone, Wyoming

Rödbergsfortet >Boden Fortress, Sweden

Rodina Mat statue on Mamayev Hill, Volgograd, Russia

Rodina Mat statue & war museum, Kiev, Ukraine

Rodin Museum >Philadelphia, USA

Jacob Roggeveen >Easter Island

Rognan, Norway >Blood Road Museum

Rogoznica  >Gross-Rosen

"rogue state" >Libya; >North Korea; >UN Headquarters, New York, USA

The Rolling Stones >Olympic Stadium, Berlin; >Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw

Henry Rollins  >EMP Museum, Seattle, USA

Roma (>Sinti & Roma, >gypsies) >persecution

Roman Catholic Church >Vatican

Roman Forums  (= Forum Romanum)  >Rome, Italy

Romania

Romanian revolution of 1989

Roman Polanski  >Polanski

Romas Kalanta  >Kaunas, Lithuania, >9th Fort

Rome, Italy (Ardeatine caves, Mussolini's bunkers at Villa Torlonia, Foro Italico, Resistance Museum, Crime Museum, Capuchin Crypt, the Colosseum); see also >The Vatican

Romeo Dallaire  >Dallaire, Romeo, >UNAMIR

Oscar Romero  >El Salvador

Römervilla (Roman villa)  >Marienthal government bunker

Rommani Nart prison museum, Bangkok, Thailand

Rommel, Erwin and Manfred  >Imperial War Museum, London, >Kolovrat, Slovenia

Ronald Reagan  >Reagan

Ronald Reagan Minuteman Missile State Historic Site  >Oscar-Zero

Mt Roraima  >Venezuela

Roosevelt  >Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; >history of the Dominican Republic

roots tourism (>overlap with other forms of tourism; >Ghana)

Roppongi >Tokyo, Japan

Rosenthaler Straße 39, Berlin >Anne Frank Center; >Museum Otto Weidt's Workshop for the Blind; >Silent Heroes Memorial Center

Rose Revolution >Tbilisi, Georgia

Roses of Sarajevo  >Sarajevo Roses

Rosinenbomber  >candy bomber (>Haus der Geschichte Bonn, >Tempelhof)

Ross Island, Andaman & Nicobar  >Cellular Jail, >Viper Island

Ross Island, Ross Sea  >Antarctica

Rossokha vehicle graveyard  >Chernobyl

Rossville Street  >Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Roswell, New Mexico, USA  >Trinity, >Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas

Rothau, Alsace, France >Natzweiler-Struthof

ROTOR >Beachy Head, >Hack Green, >Kelvedon Hatch

Rotterdam, Netherlands >Vught, >Military History Museum, Dresden, Germany

Roturoa >Tarawera

Round Table talks of 1989  >Jewish cemetery, >Warsaw, Poland

Route 66 >Barringer Meteor Crater; >National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, Albuquerque, USA

Rowlatt Act  >Jallianwala Bagh

Royal Air Force Museum, Cosford & Hendon, Great Britain  >IWM Duxford

Royal Engineers >Goose Green & Darwin, Falklands

Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) Service >Fitzroy, Falklands

Royal Marines >Falklands War, >Fitzroy, >Stanley and environs, Falkland Islands

Royal Navy >Falkland Islands, >Narvik, Norway

Royal Observer Corps >Hack Green secret nuclear bunker, >Kelvedon Hatch, >Scotland's secret bunker

Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) >Belfast >Derry/Londonderry, >Northern Ireland

RPF = 'Rwandan Patriotic Front' (cf. >Rwandan genocide)

Rruga George W. Bush  >Tirana, Albania

Rruga Ismail Qemali, Blloku  >Tirana, Albania

RSHA ('Reichsicherheitshauptamt')  >St Cyril and Methodius church crypt, Prague; >Memorium Nuremberg Trials

RT-32 / RT-16  >Irbene radio telescope, Latvia

Rua Antonio Maria Cardoso >Lisbon

Rua dos Bacalhoeiros >Lisbon

rubber bullets >Museum of Free Derry, Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland

'rubble mounds' >Teufelsberg, Berlin

Jack Ruby >Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, Dallas

RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary) >Belfast, >Derry/Londonderry, >Northern Ireland

RUC Museum >Belfast

Lev Rudnov  >Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw

Rudolf Hess  >IWM North, Manchester; >Memorium Nuremberg Trials; >Munich

Rudolph Höss >Auschwitz

Rufina Amaya >Amaya

Rufisque >Dakar, Senegal

Rügen, Germany >Prora

Ruhengeri  >Dian Fossey's grave at Karisoke, Rwanda

Ruhnama  >Turkmenistan (>Ashgabat, >Turkmenbashy Gifts Museum,>Turkmenbashy mausoleum)

ruined old town, Corbera d'Ebre, Catalonia, Spain

ruins  >dark destinations ordered by category

Rumbula, Riga, Latvia

Rumi Darwaza  >Lucknow, India

Donald Rumsfeld  >Arlington; >UN Headquarters, New York, USA; >modern art gallery with exhibition of gifts to Tito, Podgorica, >Museum of the First President, Astana

Runde Ecke ('round corner') Stasi HQ, Leipzig, Germany  (cf. >Stasi bunker Machern)

runways  >Tempelhof Airport, Berlin

Rainer Rupp (alias "Topaz")  >Spy Museum Berlin

Paul Rusesabagina >Kigali, Rwanda

Ruskin Museum, Coniston, Cumbria, England, Great Britain

Bertrand Russell >Anti-War Museum Berlin, >Einstein

Russia (see also >Soviet Union/USSR) (cf. Kirkenes, Norway)

Russian-Georgian war 2008 >Georgia

Russian Nuclear Weapons Museum, Russia

Russian Political History Museum >Museum of Russian Political History, St Petersburg

Russian Revolution >Lenin, >Museum of Russian Political History, >St Petersburg

Russian submarine >U-434

Russian Woodpecker  >Duga, Chernobyl, Ukraine

Russo-Turkish war >Bulgaria, >Buzludzha, >Military Museum Sofia

Rusumo Falls >Nyarubuye genocide memorial

Ruta del Che >Che Guevara Trail, Bolivia

Ruta del Chivo ('route of the Goat')  >Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (cf. >history of the Dominican Republic)

Ružomberok, Slovakia  >Hlinka mausoleum

RV >re-entry vehicle

Rwanda (>Tarrafal, Cape Verde)

Rwandan genocide (cf. >Rwanda; >genocide; >Congo; >Uganda)

Rwandan National Commission for the Fight against Genocide (CNLG) >Gisozi Genocide Memorial Centre Kigali, Rwanda

Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) >Rwandan genocide

Jose Maria Ryan  >Lemoniz

Ryongchon, North Korea

Ryugyong Hotel >Pyongyang, North Korea

Ryukyu >Okinawa

Rzuchów forest  >Chelmno

 

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