Tag: Dark Tourism
4 months ago
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'I go in search of abandoned places - I travelled 7,000 miles to find one building'

Ramy Awad, 32, is an urban explorer who spends his time finding abandoned buildings and creepy hotspots – and says he...

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4 months ago
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World's best winter hotspot is 'glacier paradise' with ice palaces and epic views

Zermatt, in Switzerland, a ski resort with access to the Matterhorn, hiking, skiing and snowboarding, viewing platfor...

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5 months ago
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'Creepy' ghost city in tropical paradise full of abandoned shops and empty homes

Forest City, in Malaysia, was a multi-million pound development built by a Chinese property developer – but it never ...

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8 months ago
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'Alien Research Centre' is UFO hotspot on 'extraterrestial highway' with Area 51 links

Take a road trip down the 'extraterrestrial highway' to the Alien Research Centre for advice on UFO hotspots and the ...

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9 months ago
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UK's creepy 'anthrax island' left uninhabitable for 48 years after deadly wartime tests

Gruinard Island in Scotland became known as Anthrax Island after biological warfare tests were carried out in 1942 – ...

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10 months ago
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Tourists relax on beach just yards away from huge abandoned shipwreck

Three over-water bungalows on cheap beach in Solomon Islands let you explore the wreck of enormous cruise ship MS Wor...

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10 months ago
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Inside creepy 'Island of Death' haunted by plague and 160,000 lost souls

Poveglia Island, near Venice, in Italy, saw hundreds of thousands of plague victims left on the island to die in a ho...

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over 1 year ago
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Hanging coffins of Sagada see deceased suspended from cliffside in haunting ritual

In the Phillipines, the locals from the small town of Sagada undergo a haunting ritual where the deceased are tied to...

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over 1 year ago
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You can visit the edge of the Bermuda Triangle where ships and planes mysteriously vanish

Holidaymakers can now visit the northernmost point of the mysterious Devil's Triangle where naval planes, cargo ships...

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over 1 year ago
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Inside the terrifying Cecil Hotel with a history so gruesome guests are no longer welcome

Dubbed one of the most haunted hotels in the US the Cecil hotel, just off Skid Row in Los Angeles, has attracted dark...

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over 1 year ago
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'World's scariest haunted house' terrifies guests in old meat-packing factory

Halloween fans can give themselves the fright of their life at the Cutting Edge Haunted House in Fort Worth, Texas. V...

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almost 2 years ago
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Creepy Welsh island that's covered in shipwrecks can only be reached by kayaks

Tusker Rock, around a mile out to sea from Ogmore-by-Sea in Wales, has become a ship graveyard as rusting boats from ...

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almost 2 years ago
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Tourists banned from 'haunted' fort in India where people 'disappear' after sunset

Popular tourist attraction Bhangarh Fort in Rajasthan has barred dark tourism obsessives from the building after suns...

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almost 2 years ago
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Inside Bali 'ghost palace' where tourists see figures and tropical air goes cold

The Indonesian paradise of Bali hosts the eerie Bedugul Taman Rekreasi Hotel & Resort which shut down on its grand op...

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almost 2 years ago
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Dark tourism: Popular caves filled with bats, rats, poo and millions of insects

The claustrophobic Gomantong Caves in Malaysian Borneo are a popular tourist destination for those who can handle the...

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almost 2 years ago
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Inside the creepy park filled with statues with 'cold, glassy' eyes and 'real human teeth'

Visit one of the strangest parks in Europe, Parikkala Sculpture Park in Finland, and see the twisted concrete creatio...

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about 2 years ago
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Grossest tourist attractions – gum walls, tarantula treks and 16k pieces of hair

Whether you want to walk among thousands of frenzied tarantulas or walk in a cavernous workshop filled with women's h...

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over 2 years ago
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Inside forbidden snake island – from grisly deaths to deadly vipers at every step

Take a look around Ilha da Queimada Grande – AKA snake island – from the comfort of your own home. Visitors of the de...

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almost 3 years ago
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Alcatraz-style island prison in Italy to become tourist attraction and hostel

A prison island surrounded by rocks and World War II shipwrecks is to undergo a €70million renovation to become a mus...

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