Dark tourism is exactly what it sounds like: travelers who venture to places connected to death, disaster, or human suffering ...

This first appeared in the Planet Money newsletter. You can sign up here. BERLIN — On a Wednesday afternoon in late August, I traveled to a tourist attraction in the heart of Germany's capital. If I ...

“Dark tourism is a special type of tourism, which involves visits to tourist attractions and destinations that are associated with death, suffering, disasters and tragedies venues. Visiting dark ...

Dr. Scott with his book, Beyond the Darkness, at the historic Lizzie Borden House in Fall River, Massachusetts. Dr. Scott at the Pyramids of Giza, exploring the intersection of ancient history, ...

AT DAWN PALMYRA’S magnificent columns and buildings glow gold against the sky. The oasis city (pictured), built on an ancient trading route, was once one of Syria’s most popular tourist sites, ...

Tourism has taken quite a hit these past 12 months. Economists are reckoning with the fallout. But tourism won’t die. Nor will the tourism of death. Asylums have long been locales for “dark tourism.” ...

Ditching the sunlounger in favour of war-torn environments and ever-present risks may not not be a conventional getaway, but for a select few ‘danger tourists’ this constitutes a holiday. The concept ...