Salaspils: A Soviet Memorial to Nazi Victims in Latvia
"Beyond these gates the land groans."
Dark Tourism
Room 202: Hunting for Ghosts at Winnipeg’s Fort Garry Hotel
Three nights in Canada's most haunted hotel room.
Catastrophic Kitsch: The Ukrainian National Chernobyl Museum
Gas masks, glitter and ghosts.
Vila Rebar: Exploring the Secret Tunnels of a Croatian Dictator
The abandoned former home of Ante Pavelić – the man they called the ‘Butcher of the Balkans.’
Dark Tourism in Malaysia: Penang War Museum & its Haunted History
Fact and fantasy collide at the Penang War Museum in Malaysia.
The Bad Place: Slime & Foreboding at the Grmeč Spomenpark in Bosnia
The abandoned Yugoslav monument where toads go to die.
Postcards from Kupari: Visiting Croatia’s ‘Bay of Abandoned Hotels’
One afternoon, five abandoned Yugoslav-era hotels.
Hunting for Pokémon in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
Digital psychogeography & the gamification of dark tourism.
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.
Cuba’s Revolutionary Trail: From Che Guevara to the Missile Crisis
Exploring the story of Cuba... as told by its battlefields, monuments & museums.
Beneath the Velvet: Examining the Scars of Communism in Prague
The physical legacy of the Czechoslovak Communist Party.
The Hill of Crosses: A Monument to Lithuanian Defiance
A unique pilgrimage site, which survived centuries of oppression under Imperial and Soviet rule.
An Occult Psychogeography of Hawksmoor’s London Churches
The ultimate conspiracy theory tour – starring Boadicea, Jack the Ripper and Pharaoh Ramesses II.