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W5, Belfast, Northern Ireland >Titanic Belfast Experience
W-53 thermonuclear warhead (9Mt) >Titan Missile Museum
Wachau, Austria >Austria, >food & drink; >Mauthausen; >Zwentendorf
Waco, Texas, USA >Oklahoma City National Memorial
Abdoulaye Wade >Dakar, Senegal
Wagah border ceremonies, Punjab, India
Wahga, Pakistan >Wagah
wagon wheel layout >Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, USA
Waikiki >Hawaii
Wailing Wall >Jerusalem, Israel
Waipi'o Valley >Hawaii
Andrzej Wajda >Katyn Museum, Warsaw; >Lodz, Poland
Kurt Waldheim >UN Headquarters, New York, USA
Lech Walesa >Roads to Freedom exhibition, Gdansk (cf. >Solidarnosc)
Kurt Waldheim >UN Headquarters
Waldlager >Chelmno
Waldschlößchenbrücke >Dresden, >Bautzener Straße, Dresden
Wales >Great Britain
Walk of Fame, Hollywood >Museum of Death, >Los Angeles
Walk of Peace trail >Kobarid, Slovenia
Wall panorama >Checkpoint Charlie
Wall, the >Berlin Wall; >Belfast; >Panmunjom & DMZ; >Jerusalem
Wall, South Dakota, USA >Wounded Knee, >Minuteman site
Wall Drug Store >Minuteman site, >Wounded Knee
walled city >Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Raoul Wallenberg (>Budapest; >Stockholm; >United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; >Yad Vashem)
Wall Museum East Side Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Walraven van Hall >Vught
Walter Ulbricht >Ulbricht
Wampo viaduct >Wang Pho viaduct
Wanfrieder Abkommen (Wanfried agreement) >Schifflersgrund
Wang Pho viaduct >Death Railway
Wannsee Conference >House of the Wannsee Conference, >Chelmno, >Eichmann, >Operation Reinhard (cf. >Holocaust)
war >dark destinations ordered by category (>World War One, >World War II, >Third World War, >Cold War, >post WWII war sites)
"War against War" (book) >Anti-War Museum Berlin
War Cabinet Rooms >Churchill War Rooms, London
War Crimes Museum >War Remnants Museum
war crimes tribunal >Memorium Buremberg Trials
"The War game"/"War Games" (film) >Hack Green secret nuclear bunker, >Scotland's secret bunker, Great Britain
"war in the war" >Mostar
War Memorial Gardens, Dublin, Ireland >Kilmainham Gaol
war memorial monument, Kaunas >9th Fort
War Memorial Museum >Narvik, Norway
war museum, Gori, Georgia
War Museum >Algiers, Algeria
War Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania
War Museum, Riga, Latvia
War Museum Narvik >Red Cross Museum, Narvik
War of Independence >Ireland, >Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin (cf. >Latvian War of Independence, >Brothers' Cemetery, Riga; >Ukrainian War of Independence, >Holodomor memorial, Kiev)
War of Restoration >Puerto Plata, >history of the Dominican Republic
War of the Pacific >Chacabuco, Chile, >Uyuni, Bolivia
"war on foreign soil" topical exposition >Rodina Mat & war museums, Kiev
warp drive (>Star Trek) >Titan Missile Museum
war rape >Rwandan genocide, >Congo
War Remnants Museum, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Stanley Warren >Changi WWII tour, Singapore
Warsaw, Poland (Ghetto Trail (Ghetto uprising monument, Ghetto Wall fragment, Umschlagplatz, ZOB), Jewish cemetery, Katyn Museum, Korczak orphanage, Palace of Culture and Science, Pawiak prison, POLIN Jewish museum, Szucha - former Gestapo prison, Warsaw Uprising Monument & Insurgents Museum, Warsaw Uprising Museum)
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising >Ghetto Trail, Warsaw; >Dallas Holocaust Museum
Warsaw Pact (cf. >Eastern Bloc, >Cold War)
Warsaw Treaty >Warsaw Pact
Warsaw Uprising (vs. >Warsaw Ghetto Uprising) >Warsaw Uprising Museum, >Warsaw, >Palmiry, Poland (cf. >Slovak National Uprising)
Warsaw Uprising Monument & Insurgents Museum, Warsaw, Poland
Warsaw Uprising Museum, Warsaw, Poland
war tourism (>overlap with other forms of tourism)
War Tunnels >Channel Islands
Washington D.C., USA (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Arlington National Cemetery, Museum of Crime & Punishment, Newseum, the Pentagon with 9/11 memorial, the "Enola Gay" at the Smithsonian, Vietnam Veterans Memorial & National Mall)
Washington Monument >Washington D.C., USA
Wat Chaichumpon >JEATH Museum
watchtowers >Ani; >Ani viewpoint & Iron Curtain; >Berlin Wall watchtowers; >Checkpoint Bravo/Dreilinden-Drewitz; >Marienborn; >border museums; >concentration camps, >gulags, >prisons; >Grutas Park; >Kirkenes, Norway,
waterboarding >Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires; >torture museum, Vienna; >Tuol Sleng, Cambodia
water crater >Darvaza
Watergate >Washington D.C., USA; >Arlington; >Newseum, Washington D.C.
Roger Waters >Wall Museum East Side Gallery
Waterside >Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Wattenmeer (Wadden Sea) intertidal costal mud flats >shipwreck museum Cuxhaven
Patrick Watts >Stanley and environs, >San Carlos, Falklands
"Wave Gotik Treffen" >Leipzig
John Wayne >Kalaupapa
wax models (medical) >Josephinum, Vienna, >Leprosy Museum, Bergen; >Palazzo Poggi, Bologna
WE 177 nuclear weapon >Hack Green secret nuclear bunker, Great Britain
weapons effects tests >NTS
Sigourney Weaver >Dian Fossey's grave at Karisoke, Rwanda
Web >Internet (>other sources)
Weberwiese, Berlin >Karl-Marx-Allee
Pulau Weh >Banda Aceh, Indonesia
Wehrtechnische Fakultät (military technical academy) >Teufelsberg, Berlin
Otto Weidt >Museum Otto Weidt's Workshop for the Blind, Berlin
Weimar, Germany >Buchenwald
Weimar Republic >House of the Wannsee Conference, Berlin, >Bautzen, Germany
Martin Weiss >Ponary
Weiße Rose >White Rose memorial museum, Munich
Richard von Weizsäcker >Coventry Cathedral & memorial
Gordon Welchman >Bletchley Park, Great Britain
Orson Wells >Third Man tours of Vienna's sewers
Welsh Guards >Fitzroy, Falklands
Wenceslas Square >Prague
Max Christopher Wenner >Max Stahl >Dili, East Timor
'werewolves' (Werwolf) >Karaganda, >KarLag, Kazakhstan; >Bautzener Straße, Dresden, >former KGB prison, Potsdam, >Lindenstraße former Stasi prison, Potsdam
Werfen, Austria >Ebensee
Wernher von Braun >Mittelbau-Dora, >Peenemünde, >V1 / V2
Werra (river) >Schifflersgrund
Werwolf >werewolves
Weserübung >Red Cross Museum, Narvik, >Resistance Museum, Bergen
Westbahnhof, Vienna >Friedrichstraße station & Palace of Tears, Berlin
West Bank >Dead Sea, >Jerusalem
West Bank Barrier >Jerusalem
West Belfast >Black Taxi Tours, Belfast, Northern Ireland
West Country (Devon & Cornwall) >Lynmouth
Westerbork camp, Netherlands
Western Balkans >Albania, >Bosnia and Herzegovina, >Croatia (cf. >Yugoslavia)
Western Approaches Museum >Liverpool
Western Sahara >Senegal
Western Wall >Jerusalem, Israel
Westerplatte, Gdansk, Poland
West Falkland >Port Howard, Falklands
West Germany >FRG, >Germany
West Indies, Caribbean >Curacao, >Dominican Republic, >Montserrat
West Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia >Mandor
Westman Islands >Heimaey, Iceland
Westminster >Churchill War Rooms, London
Simon Weston >Fitzroy, Falklands
Weston State Hospital >Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, Weston, WV, USA
West Sea Barrage >Atrocities Museum
West Timor, Indonesia >East Timor
West Virginia Penitentiary, West Virginia, USA
Vivienne Westwood >Military History Museum, Dresden, Germany
West Yorkshire >Bradford
"We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families" (book) >Rwandan genocide
Whakatane >White Island, New Zealand
Whale Point >Fitzroy, Falklands
whaling >Grytviken, South Georgia; >Iceland; >Bergen, >Norway; >Svalbard
what is dark tourism
what's new >news
W.H. Bramble Airport >Montserrat
Hugh Wheeler >Kanpur, India
Tony Wheeler's "Bad Lands" >Albania
Wheeling, West Virginia >West Virginia Penitentiary, USA
"When the Wind Blows" (film/graphic novel) >Hack Green nuclear bunker, >Kelvedon Hatch
Whiskey-Vodka Line >Schifflersgrund
whiskey >Dublin, Ireland, >USA, >Titanic Belfast Experience
whisky >food & drink; >France, >Great Britain, >India, >Japan, >Boden Fortress, Sweden
Whitby, North Yorkshire, England, Great Britain
Dan White >Castro, San Francisco
Robert White >Paul Stradins Museum of the History of Medicine, Riga
white-bleached corpses >Murambi
white desert >Antarctica
White Factory >Lodz, Poland
Whitehall >Churchill War Rooms, London
Whitehaven, Cumbria, England, Great Britain >The Beacon Museum
The White House >Washington D.C., USA
White Island, New Zealand
White Palace >Brest Fortress, Belarus
White Rock >Los Alamos & Bradbury Science Museum
White Rose memorial museum, Munich, Germany (cf. German Resistance Memorial Centre, Berlin)
White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, USA >Trinity, >Los Alamos & Bradbury Science Museum
White Star Line >Titanic Belfast Experience; >Liverpool
white supremacist >United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C., USA
White Swan Hotel >Alnwick, Northumberland, Great Britain
White Terror >Taipei 2-28 Memorial Museum
WHO >UN Headquarters, New York, USA
why this interest in dark and weird places
Joko Widodo (Jokowi) >Indonesia
Wielopole, Poland >Holocaust Museum LA
Wielun, Poland >Military History Museum, Dresden, Germany
Elie Wiesel >Buchenwald
Simon Wiesenthal >Museum of Tolerance
Oscar Wilde >Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris; >Castro, San Francisco
wildlife watching as dark tourism >Komodo, >Senegal, >Yellowstone (cf. >Chernobyl, >Chernobyl Museum, Kiev)
Wild West >Museum of Crime & Punishment, Washington D.C., USA; >Wounded Knee, USA
Wilhelmstraße, Berlin >Topography of Terror
Wilhelmstraße 77 >Berlin
Willemstad, Curacao >slavery museum Kura
Samuel Willenberg >Treblinka
William Calley >My Lai
Crown Prince William >Cecilienhof
Emperor William II (Kaiser Wilhelm der Zweite) >Potsdam, >Cecilienhof
William of Orange >Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Willy Brandt >Warsaw ghetto trail, >Anti-War Museum Berlin
Wilmington >Beachy Head, Great Britain
"Wind of Change" (song) >Wall Museum East Side Gallery
Windows of the World restaurant menu >9/11 Tribute Center, New York
Windscale >Sellafield, >Sellafield exhibition at The Beacon, Whitehaven
Windstärke 10 (Gale Force 10) >shipwreck museum Cuxhaven
the windy city >Chicago
Windy Ridge >Mount St Helens
wine >food & drink; >Albania; >Argentina; >Armenia; >Austria; >Belgrade; >Bulgaria; >Cha das Caldeiras, Fogo, Cape Verde; >Chile; >France; >Gandesa, Ebro, Spain; >Georgia; >India; >Israel; >Leipzig, >Marienthal government bunker, Germany; >Slovenia; >Transnistria (& Moldova); >Warsaw, Poland
wine cathedrals >Gandesa
Amy Winehouse >EMP Museum, Seattle, USA
Kate Winslet >Titanic Belfast Experience
Winslow, Arizona >Barringer Meteor Crater
Winston Churchill >Churchill
Winter Olympics 1984 >Sarajevo
General Wiranto >East Timor history
Wireless Ridge >Falklands War, >Stanley and environs, Falkland Islands
Christian Wirth >Belzec; >Grafeneck; >Hartheim; >Operation Reinhard; >T4 (cf. >German Resistance Memorial Centre)
WITCH computer >Bletchley Park, Great Britain
Wittenoom >Australia
Wittigo Keller >funeral museum, Vienna
wives of the betrayers of the homeland >ALZHIR, Kazakhstan
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart >Mozart
Wolf's Lair >Wolfschanze
Wolfschanze (Wolf's Lair) near Gierloz, Poland
Wolof >Senegal
wolves >Chernobyl, >Chernobyl NPP
wolverine >Narvik, Norway
"Woman in Gold" (movie) >Holocaust Museum LA
Women in Military Service for America Memorial >Arlington
women's camp >ALZHIR, Kazakhstan; >Ravensbrück, Germany
Virginia Woolf >Castro, San Francisco
Woolworth Building >New York
(the Russian) Woodpecker >Duga, Chernobyl, Ukraine
workhouses >Ireland; >The Beacon Museum, Whitehaven, Great Britain
Workhouse Museum >Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland
"Workingman's Death" >Ijen crater, Indonesia; >India
Workshop for the blind >Museum Otto Weidt's Workshop for the Blind, Berlin
World Food Programme >UN Headquarters, New York, USA
World Monument Watch >Tarrafal prison camp, Cape Verde Islands
World Museum of Mining >Butte, Montan, USA
World Press Photo >Remember Bhopal Museum
World Trade Center >9/11; >National 9/11 Memorial & Museum, >9/11 Tribute Center (foremrly Tribute WTC), >Ground Zero, New York; >Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas, >Newseum, Washington D.C.; >Imperial War Museum, London; >IWM Duxford; >IWM North, Manchester; cf. >Asbestos
World War One
World War One Gallery >Imperial War Museum, London
World War One sites >dark destinations ordered by category
World War II
World War II Memorial >Vietnam Veterans Memorial & National Mall, Washington D.C.
World War II sites >dark destinations ordered by category
World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument >Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
World War III >Third World War (cf. >Cold War)
Wounded Knee, South Dakota, USA
"Wounds of Remembrance" >Munich
Wrack- und Fischereimuseum Cuxhaven >shipwreck museum Cuxhaven
wreck(age)s >dark destinations ordered by category
wreck museum >shipwreck museum
wreck of the Titanic, Atlantic Ocean
Wrens >Bletchley Park, Great Britain
Wright Brothers Flyer >AMARG
Wright-Patterson Air Base >US Air Force Museum, Dayton, Ohio
WSMR (White Sands Missile Range) >Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas, >Trinity
WTC >World Trade Center
Wuda, China >infamous dark sites not to be visited (cf. >coal fires)
Joseph Wulf >House of the Wannsee Conference
WW I >World War One
WW II >World War II
WW II Memorial >Vietnam Veterans Memorial & National Mall, Washington D.C.
WW II tour >Prague
WW III >Third World War
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