Categories of dark-tourism destinations:

 

Prisons 

and POW, deportation, detention & torture centres

 

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

Adelaide Gaol, Adelaide, Australia

Cockatoo Island, Sydney, Australia

Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney, Australia

Old Melbourne Gaol, MelbourneAustralia

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia

Minsk, Belarus

Breendonk, Belgium

Kazerne Dossin, Mechelen, Belgium

– Museum of crimes against humanity and genocideSarajevoBosnia & 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 prisonDresdenGermany

– Münchner Platz MemorialDresdenGermany

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

HashimaJapan

Nagasaki, Japan

Oka Masaharu Memorial Peace MuseumNagasaki, 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

Nauru

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

Chiayi Old Prison, Chiayi, Taiwan

Green Island, Taiwan

Jing-Mei White Terror Memorial Park, Taipei, Taiwan

Jinguashi Gold Museum, Taiwan

Kinkaseki POW Camp Memorial, Taiwan

War and Peace memorial Park, Cijin, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Rommani Nart prison museum, Bangkok, Thailand

Hellfire Pass, Thailand

JEATH museum, Kanchanaburi, Thailand

Thailand-Burma Railway Centre, Kanchanaburi, Thailand

Alcatraz, San FranciscoUSA

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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