Salaspils: A Soviet Memorial to Nazi Victims in Latvia
"Beyond these gates the land groans."
Dark Tourism
Ciudad Nuclear: Exploring Cuba’s Half-Abandoned ‘Nuclear City’
The Caribbean Pripyat.
Catastrophic Kitsch: The Ukrainian National Chernobyl Museum
Gas masks, glitter and ghosts.
The Bad Place: Slime & Foreboding at the Grmeč Spomenpark in Bosnia
The abandoned Yugoslav monument where toads go to die.
Hunting for Pokémon in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
Digital psychogeography & the gamification of dark tourism.
Myth & Memory in the Balkans: The ‘Spomeniks’ of Former Yugoslavia
A month-long monument hunt, and what I learned along the way.
After the Siege: What I Learned in 18 Hours of Sarajevo War Tourism
Meeting the survivors of the longest siege in modern military history.
A Day Trip to Daksa: Visiting Croatia’s ‘Island of Ghosts’
The abandoned island that Dubrovnik wants to forget.
A Field of Blackbirds: Dark Tourism in Kosovo’s Former Conflict Zones
Visiting battlefields, monuments & political flashpoints, 15 years after the end of the Kosovo War.
Storming the Bastille: A Look Inside Romania’s Doftana Prison
Exploring the abandoned prison where a Romanian dictator once languished in solitary confinement.