One Year After Visiting Auschwitz
This week marks one year since I visited Auschwitz. Since then, I have told scores of people what I saw and how it impacted me. I found that the more people I shared my story with, ...
Categories: Dark Tourism, History, Poland
Teotihuacan: Where Men Become Gods
Forty kilometers northwest of Mexico City is Teotihuacan, one of the most important locations in Mesoamerican history. The existence of Teotihuacan was so influential that its rise ...
Categories: Dark Tourism, History, Mexico, Paranormal
Xochimilco and The Island of the Dolls
The Island of the Dolls is in Xochimilco, a borough south of Mexico City. While it would be faster to take a car from Mexico City to Xochimilco, the traffic is dense and the roads ...
Categories: Dark Tourism, Mexico, Paranormal
Eight Christmas Traditions From Around The World
Christmas is approaching, but not everybody celebrates it the same way. Over the years, people have made a wide variety of different Christmas traditions, involving prayer, food or ...
Categories: Austria, Dark Tourism, Europe, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Ukraine, United Kingdom
5 Spooky European Stories
Although Halloween is officially over, it's never too late for some spooky stories. With a continent as old as Europe, there are plenty of spooky stories in every city. If you know ...
Categories: Dark Tourism, Europe, France, Germany, Paranormal, Poland, Ukraine
Bump in the Night at Government House
Strange things have been happening at Government House. Six years ago, two adventurous ten-year-old girls arrived at Government House to begin their own personal investigation. ...
Categories: Canada, Dark Tourism, Paranormal, Regina, Saskatchewan
Why You Should Visit Depressing Places
I was out for supper with some friends the other night when my blog came up in discussion. Somebody who wasn't familiar with my blog asked me if I only write about depressing place ...
Categories: Dark Tourism, Europe, History, Paranormal
Into the Exclusion Zone – Part 2
"The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water? the name of the star is Wormwo ...
Categories: Dark Tourism, Europe, Ukraine
Into the Exclusion Zone – Part 1
As I examined the floor, I had no idea what I was looking at. For three decades debris on the floor had rotted and molded; paper, books, mud, leaves, peeled paint, glass, and a lon ...
Categories: Dark Tourism, Europe, Ukraine