Hoyt Lakes therapist explores dark tourism in new book Travel to places such as Normandy Beach and other spots helped Dr. Chad Scott through his dark times while undergoing a liver transplant.

An author says he hopes his new book will introduce more people to the world of dark tourism. Leon McAnally, who lives in Northampton and studied at the town's university, visits about 300 ...

What is ‘dark tourism’? Why tourists visit destinations with tragic histories - Places where tragedies have occurred, such as Chernobyl, Hiroshima and the killing fields in Cambodia, draw ...

Holocaust tourism has also spawned unrelentingly somber books. In his 2014 novel “In Paradise,” the late writer Peter Matthiessen describes a real-life “Bearing Witness” meditation retreat ...

So-called “dark tourism” has even spawned its own academic sub-specialty: In her 2014 book “Jewish Poland Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Unquiet Places,” anthropologist Erica T. Lehrer ...

By David G. Allan, CNN (CNN) — Fifty years ago, parishioners from Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple in San Francisco began to settle a rural commune in the South American country of Guyana. The ...