Table 1 Divisions of the Dark [22]

1

Perilous Places

a) Towns of Terror

- Ghost towns

b) Dangerous Destinations

- Current war zones, slams (favela tourism), recent tourist massacres (Luxor, Tunisia)

2

Houses of Horror

Homes of murderers (OJ Simson), of murders (Gianni Versace)

a) Dungeons of Death

- Alcatraz, Chateau d’If, Devil’s Island, Changi, Lubyanka HQ, Robben Island, Melbourne City Gaol

b) Heinous Hotels (turning jails into hotels)

- Obersalzberg

3

Fields of Fatality

a) Bloody Battlegrounds; Waterloo, Crimea

- La Higuera/Bolivia (Che Guevara)

b) Hell of Holocaust

- ‘Schindler-Tourism’; remnants of hair, teeth, shoes, spectacles; Danish concentration camp turned into hotel

c) Cemeteries for Celebrities

- Père Lachaise/Paris

- Cappuchin Crypt/Palermo

- Killing Fields in Cambodia

4

Tours of Torment

a) Mayhem and Murder

- Hollywood’s grave line tours (in a hearse)

b) The Now Notorious

- E.g. Ronnie Biggs

5

Themed Thanatos

a) Morbid Museums

- Lima: Palace of the Inquisition

- Pathology Museums

- Graceland, Althorp

b) Monuments to Morality

- Gruesome outcomes for social deviants, e.g., Ten Courts of Hell/Singapore; Hell House in Denver