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Index  -  V

  

V1 / V2  >Atlantic Wall, France; >Army Museum & Napoleon's tomb, Paris; >Ebensee; >Churchill War Rooms, >IWM Duxford, >Imperial War Museum, >London, Great Britain; >Mittelbau-Dora, >Peenemünde, >Marienthal government bunker, >Military History Museum, Dresden, Germany; >AMARG, >US Air Force Museum

V 3  >Atlantic Wall

Vaclav Havel  >Havel

Vagankovskoe kladbishche  >Moscow

Vajont dam, Italy

Valentin  >Bunker Valentin

Valentina Tereshkova >Karaganda, Kazakhstan; >Viru KGB museum, Tallinn

Eamon de Valera >Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, >Crumlin Road Gaol, Belfast

"Valkyrie" (movie)  >Potsdam, >German Resistance Memorial Centre, Berlin

Valldal, Norway >Tafjord

Valle de los Caidos, Spain

Vallegrande  >Che Guevara Trail, Bolivia

Valles Caldera National Preserve  >Los Alamos & Bradbury Science Museum

Valley of Death  >Dukla Pass, >Flossenbürg

Valley of the Fallen  >Valle de los Caidos

Valparaiso, Chile

'value of life' >Hartheim

valuta  >Viru KGB museum, >Soviet Tallinn

Vanadzor, Armenia (cf. >Gyumri, >Sisian)

vandalism  >Beelitz Heilstätten, >Belchite, >Buzludzha, >Drancy memorial

Vann Nath  >Tuol Sleng/S-21 >"A Cambodian Prison Portrait" (book)

Van Vihar wildlife sanctuary  >Bhopal

Varanasi  >India

Vasa Museet  >Stockholm, Schweden

Vasco da Gama  >Lisbon

Vasil Levski  >Military Museum Sofia

The Vatican (Vatican City)

Vatnajökull  >Iceland

VD  >German-Russian Museum, Berlin; >categories: medical exhibitions

VDK (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge – the German war graves commission)  >Bikernieku 

VDNKh >Moscow

VE Day (Victory in Europe Day) >German-Russian Museum Karlshorst, Berlin

vegetarianism >food & drink, >travel & environmental issues, >India

Timothy McVeigh >Oklahoma City National Memorial

Veliko Tarnovo >Bulgaria, >Buzludzha

Velvet Divorce  >Bratislava, Slovakia; cf. >Velvet Revolution

Velvet Revolution (>CSSR, >Czech Republic, >Slovakia, >nuclear bunker, Prague)

Vemork, Norway >Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum

Venerina  >Palazzo Poggi, Bologna

Venezuela (cf. >Colombia)

Ventspils, Latvia  >Irbene radio locator

Verdant Works Museum, Dundee  >Scotland's secret bunker

Verdun >Somme & Verdun

"Vergangenheitsbewältigung" ('coming to terms with the past')  >Germany; >Foro Italico, Rome

Vergeltungswaffe ('vengence weapon') >V1 / V2

Louis Vernet >Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute

Versaille >Paris

Verzetsmuseum >Dutch resistance Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Vesna Vulovic >Aviation Museum Belgrade

Amerigo Vespucci >Wounded Knee, >Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute

Vesuvius >Mt Vesuvius  (cf. >Krakatoa)

Veterinary university >Fragonard Museum, Paris

Joseph de Veuster  >Father Damien, >Kalaupapa

VHEMT >overpopulation

Via Appia  >Rome, Italy, >Ardeatine Caves

Via Dolorosa >Jerusalem, Israel

Via Rassela bomb attack  >Ardeatine Caves

Via Tasso  >Resistance Museum, Rome

Via Veneto  >Capuchin Crypt, Rome

Vichy regime >Drancy memorial, >Shoah memorial museum, Paris; >Resistance museum, Lyon, France; >Maison des Esclaves, Goree, Dakar, Senegal, >Holocaust Centre, Oslo, Norway

Sid Vicious >New York

victimless crimes  >Alcatraz

Victims of Communism Memorial >Prague, Czech Republic

Victoria, Australia  >Balibo, East Timor

Victoria & Albert Waterfront >Cape Town (>Robben Island)

Victoria, Lake >Uganda; >Nyarubuye

Victoria Cross >Goose Green & Darwin, Falklands

Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum >Pyongyang, North Korea

Victor Jara >Cementerio General, Santiago de Chile

Victory Green >Stanley and environs, Falkland Islands

"victory kiss" statue  >USS Missouri

Victory Park >Mother Armenia & Military Museum Yerevan; >Museum of the Great Patriotic War Moscow; >Semey, Kazalhstan

Victory Square  >Minsk, Belarus

Gore Vidal >Oklahoma City National Memorial

Vidkun Quisling >Quisling

Vienna, Austria (>catacombs beneath St Stephen's Cathedral; >cemetery of the nameless (Friedhof der Namenlosen); >Central Cemetery (Zentralfriedhof); >crime museum; >Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW); >Flaktowers in Augarten; >funeral museum; >Imperial Crypt; >Josephinum: medical history museum with anatomical wax models; >Michaelerguft – crypt under Michaeler church; >Military History Museum; > Narrenturm – pathologic-anatomical museum; >Spiegelgrund/Steinhof; >St Marx cemetery; >Third Man tours of Vienna's sewers; >torture museum)  (cf. >Radegast station, Lodz)

Vietcong (>Vietnam, >Vietnam War, >Cu Chi tunnels)

Vietnam

Vietnam Veterans Memorial & National Mall, Washington D.C., USA

Vietnam veterans memorial >Philadelphia, USA

Vietnam War (>Vietnam, >War Remnants Museum, >Cu Chi tunnels, >DMZ, >Hien Luong Bridge & museum, >My Lai, >Vinh Moc tunnels, >Vietnam Veterans Memorial; >Punchbowl, Honolulu, Hawaii; >Haus der Geschichte Bonn)

Vietnam Women's Memorial >Vietnam Veterans Memorial & National Mall, Washington D.C.

Gustav Vigeland >Oslo, Norway

Vigeland Park >Oslo, Norway

Viimsi, Estonia  >Tallinn

Vikings >Norway, >Oslo, >Armed Forces Museum, Oslo; >Ireland; >Dounreay exhibition, Thurso, Scotland

Viking ship museum >Oslo, Norway

Vilalba dels Arcs, Catalonia, Spain  >Ebro

Villa Borghese, Rome  >Capuchin Crypt

Villa Delenda >Yerevan

Azucena Villaflor de Vicente >ESMA, Buenos Aires

Village martyr D'Oradour-sur-Glane >Oradour-sur-Glane, France

villages deliberately destroyed in war  >El Mozote, >Kalište, >Khatyn, >Lidice, >My Lai, >Oradour-sur-Glane

Villa Grande >Holocaust Centre, Oslo, Norway

Villa Grimaldi – Parque por la Paz, Santiago, Chile

Villa Schöningen >Glienicke bridge Berlin

Villa Torlonia, Rome, Italy  (with Mussolini's bunkers)

Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum >Jewish Holocaust Museum, Vilnius, >Ponary

Vilnius, Lithuania (>Genocide Victims' Museum, >Ponary, >Jewish Holocaust Museum, >TV Tower and 13 Januray exhibition, >Antakalnis cemetery, >Barricades memorial)

Vina del Mar, Chile >Valparaiso

Vincent Price  >Museum of Death. L.A.

Vinebre, Catalonia, Spain  >Ebro

Vingis Park  >TV Tower, Vilnius

Vinh Moc tunnels, DMZ, Vietnam

Viper Island, Andaman & Nicobar

VIRAC (= Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Center)  >Irbene, Latvia

Virginia Tech school shooting >Newseum, Washington D.C.

Virgin Lands campaign >Astana, Kazakhstan, >Museum of the President's Cultural Centre

Virrey Cevallos >Buenos Aires

Viru Hotell / Viru Center  >Viru KGB museum

Viru KGB museum, Tallinn, Estonia

Virungas >Volcanos National Park, Rwanda; >Dian Fossey's grave

viscacha >Chacabuco, Chile

"Visit Sunny Chernobyl - and other adventures in the world's most polluted places" (book by Andrew Blackwell)  >Delhi

Visoke >Bisoke, >Dian Fossey's grave at Karisoke, Rwanda

Viti, Iceland

Vitosha boulevard / Vitosha mountain >Sofia, Bulgaria

Vivienne Westwood >Military History Museum, Dresden, Germany

Vizkaya Bridge  >Lemoniz

Vladivostok, Siberia, Russia >Magadan, >Murmansk

Vlad Tepes (cf. >Dracula)

Vladimir Putin >Putin

Vladimir Vysotsky >Vysotsky

VLF >Hack Green secret nuclear bunker, Great Britain

"Voices from the Frontline" exhibition, El Pinell de Brai, Catalonia, Spain  >Ebro

voids >Jewish Museum Berlin

Vojna Memorial, Czech Republic

volcanic ash >Cha das Caldeiras, Fogo, Cape Verde, >Iceland, >Montserrat, >Sakurajima; >volcanoes

Volcanic Explosivity Index  >Krakatoa

volcanic mudflows (lahars) >Montserrat, >Merapi

volcanoes >dark destinations ordered by category

Volcanoes National Park (1), Hawaii

Volcanoes National Park (2) >Rwanda, >Dian Fossey's grave

Volcano helicopter flights, Hawaii

volcanology >MVO, Montserrat; >Jaggar Museum, Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii

Volcano Museum >Aso, Japan

volcano museum  >Merapi, Indonesia

Volcano Show >Heimaey, Iceland

Volga Germans >Karaganda, Kazakhstan

Volgograd >Rodina Mat statue & war memorial (cf. >Baku, Azerbaijan; >war museum, Gori, Georgia)

Völkerschlachtdenkmal >Leipzig

Volksdeutsche  >Radogoszcz prison, Lodz

Volksgemeinschaft >Prora

Volksgerichtshof >People's Court

"Voluntary Human Extinction Movement" (VHEMT) >overpopulation

Volunteer House >Stanley and environs, Falkland Islands

Volunteer Point >Falkland Islands, >Stanley and environs

Vorkuta, Russia >gulags, >Perm-36, >Bautzener Straße, Dresden, >KGB cells museum, Tartu, >Stasi prison Lindenstraße, Potsdam, >Tornakalns deportation memorial, Riga

Vostok >Antarctica

vowel harmony >Turkey, >Turkmenistan

voyeurism  >the Colosseum, Rome; >is dark tourism bad?, >FAQ, >slum tourism, >ethical issues, >what is dark tourism?, >overlaps

Vozrozhdeniya Island, Aral Sea, Uzbekistan/Kazakhstan, >infamous dark sites not to be visited (cf. >Aralsk, >Gruinard Island, Scotland)

Vraca memorial >Sarajevo

Vratsa, Bulgaria >Kozloduy

Vrbanja Bridge  >Sarajevo, >Sarajevo siege exhibition

Vršič Pass  >Kobarid, Slovenia

Vught camp, Netherlands

Vukovar (massacre)  >Ovcara Memorial Center, Croatia

Avro Vulcan  >Falklands War, >IWM Duxford

Vulcano  >Stromboli

Vulcan Site  >Dounreay

Vesna Vulovic  >Aviation Museum Belgrade

VVT (VDNKh) >Moscow

VW >Haus der Geschichte Bonn

Vladimir Vysotsky >Moscow; >Podgorica

Vytautas the Great War Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania

 

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