Categories of dark-tourism destinations:

Prisons

and POW, deportation, detention & torture centres

(cf. concentration camps, gulags)

– Bunk'art 2, Tirana, Albania

– Spaç prison, Albania

– Cellular Jail, Port Blair, Andaman & Nicobar

– Viper Island, Andaman & Nicobar

– Buenos Aires, Argentina

– ESMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina

– ex-presidio & museo maritimo, Ushuaia, Argentina

– Museo Penitenciario Argentino, Buenos Aires, Argentina

– Old Melbourne Gaol, Australia

– Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia

– Minsk, Belarus

– Breendonk, Belgium

– Kazerne Dossin, Mechelen, Belgium

– Museum of crimes against humanity and genocide, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina

– Belene, Bulgaria

– Tuol Sleng, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

– Tarrafal, Santiago, Cape Verde Islands

– Chacabuco, Atacama, Chile

– Londres 38, Santiago, Chile

– Memorial Museum, Santiago, Chile

– Villa Grimaldi – Parque por la Paz, Santiago, Chile

– Valparaiso, Chile

– Unit 731 Museum, Harbin, China

– Goli Otok, Croatia

– Kerestinec Castle, Croatia

– Ovčara Memorial Centre, Vukovar, Croatia

– Cuba (Guatanamo)

– the Imprisoned Graves, Nicosia, Cyprus

– Kokkinotrimithia, Cyprus

– Polemi, Cyprus

– Theresienstadt, Czech Republic

– Vojna memorial, Czech Republic

– Castillo de Cerro, Dominican Republic

– Fortaleza San Felipe, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic

– Resistance Museum, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

– Aipelo, East Timor

– Baucau, East Timor

– Chega! exhibition, Dili, East Timor

– KGB cells museum, Tartu, Estonia

– KGB cells, Tallinn, Estonia

– Patarei prison, Tallinn, Estonia

– Soviet Tallinn, Tallinn, Estonia

– Red Terror Museum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

– Goose Green & Darwin, Falkland Islands

– Port Howard, Falkland Islands

– Deportation monument, Paris, France

– Drancy, Paris, France

– Resistance museum, Lyon, France

– Camp de la Transportation, St-Laurent du Maroni, French Guiana

– Îles du Salut (Île Royale, Île St-Joseph and Île du Diable, Devil’s Island), French Guiana

– Bautzen, Germany

– Hohenschönhausen, Berlin, Germany

– Plötzensee, Berlin, Germany

– Schöneweide Nazi forced labour camp memorial site, Berlin, Germany

– Stasi Museum, Berlin, Germany

– Topography of Terror, Berlin, Germany

– Buchenwald, Germany

– Colditz, Germany

– EL-DE Haus, Cologne, Germany

– Dresden, Germany

– Bautzner Straße Stasi prison, Dresden, Germany

– Münchner Platz Memorial, Dresden, Germany

– Energiebunker Wilhelmsburg, Hamburg, Germany

– Fuhlsbüttel prison museum, Hamburg, Germany

– Hanover Station Memorial, Hamburg, Germany

– Police Museum, Hamburg, Germany

– former KGB prison, Potsdam, Germany

– Lindenstraße former Stasi prison, Potsdam, Germany

– Sandbostel, Germany

– Sachsenhausen, Germany

– National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire, England, Great Britain

– Makronisos, Greece

– Yaros, Greece

– Kalaupapa, Hawaii

– House of Terror, Budapest, Hungary

– Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, Ireland

– Deportation museum, Carpi, Italy

– Fossoli, Italy

– Milan, Italy

– Shoah Memorial, Milan, Italy

– Museo Criminologico, Rome, Italy

– Resistance Museum, Rome, Italy

– Risiera di San Sabba, Trieste, Italy

– Venice, Italy

– Hashima Japan

– Nagasaki, Japan

– Oka Masaharu Memorial Peace Museum, Nagasaki, Japan

– KarLag, Kazakhstan

– Karosta, Latvia

– Tornakalns deportation memorial, Riga, Latvia

– 9th Fort, Kaunas, Lithuania

– KGB building, Riga, Latvia

– Raseiniai, Lithuania

– Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights (KGB Museum), Vilnius, Lithuania

– Holocaust Memorial Center, Skopje, Macedonia

– Malta

– Vittoriosa/Birgu, Malta

– Museum of Missing Soldiers, Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh

– Aus and environs, Namibia

– Pomona, Sperrgebiet, Namibia

– Vught camp, Netherlands

– Crumlin Road Gaol, Belfast, Northern Ireland

– Irish Republican History Museum, West Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

– Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland

– Blood Road Museum, Norway

– Falstad Centre, Norway

– Grenselandsmuseet (border lands museum), Kirkenes, Norway

– Narvik, Norway

– Red Cross Museum/War Museum, Narvik, Norway

– Pomorska Street Memorial, Kraków, Poland

– Independence Museum, Lodz, Poland

– Radogoszcz prison, Lodz, Poland

– Pawiak, Warsaw, Poland

– Szucha former Gestapo prison, Warsaw, Poland

– Lisbon, Portugal

– Peniche Fort, Portugal

– Sighet Prison, Romania

– Lubyanka, Moscow, Russia

– Mudyug, Russia

– Peter & Paul Fortress, St Petersburg, Russia

– St Petersburg (Kresty prison), Russia

– Tomsk museum of the history of political repression, Russia

– Kigali, Rwanda

– Changi prison, Singapore

– Castle & history museum, Ljubljana, Slovenia

– Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa

– Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, South Africa

– Robben Island, Cape Town, South Africa

– Madrid, Spain

– Boer POW camps & cemetery, St Helena

– Jamestown, St Helena

– Munden's, St Helena

– Fort Nieuw Amsterdam, Suriname

– Fort Zeelandia, Paramaribo, Suriname

– Green Island, Taiwan

– Jing-Mei White Terror Memoorial Park, Taipei, Taiwan

– Rommani Nart prison museum, Bangkok, Thailand

– Hellfire Pass, Thailand

– JEATH museum, Kanchanaburi, Thailand

– Thailand-Burma Railway Centre, Kanchanaburi, Thailand

– Alcatraz, San Francisco, USA

– Amache, Japanese American Relocation Centers, USA

– Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

– Ellis Island, New York, USA

– Heart Mountain, Japanese American Relocation Centers, USA

– Minidoka, Japanese American Relocation Centers, USA

– Manzanar, Japanese American Relocation Centers, USA

– Museum of Crime & Punishment, Washington D.C., USA

– Rohwer, Japanese American Relocation Centers, USA

– Topaz, Japanese American Relocation Centers, USA

– Tule Lake, Japanese American Relocation Centers, USA

– West Virginia Penitentiary, USA

– US Air Force Museum, Dayton, Ohio, USA

– Hoa Lo Prison, Hanoi, Vietnam

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