Table of Contents
Introduction 8
About this book 10
The Americas & Antarctica
North America
Mount St Helens 14
Alcatraz 15
Museum of Death 17
Holocaust Museum LA 17
Museum of Tolerance 17
Titan Missile Museum 18
Feature: The Cold War 20
AMARG 'Boneyard' and Pima Air & Space Museum 21
Trinity Site 22
Feature: Manhattan Project 23
Museum of Nuclear Science & History 24
Feature: Nuclear Weapons 25
Other Nuclear Sites in the USA 25
Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge Reservation 26
Oklahoma City National Memorial 27
Dealey Plaza 28
USAF Museum 29
Other Collections of Aircraft & Missiles 29
West Virginia Penitentiary 30
Other Notable Ex-prisons to Visit 31
Centralia 32
Arlington National Cemetery 33
The Pentagon and 9/11 Memorial 33
US Holocaust Memorial Museum 34
The National Mall, Washington D.C. 35
The Enola Gay at the Smithsonian 36
Mutter Museum 36
Eastern State Penitentiary 37
National 9/11 Memorial & Museum 38
Central America & the Caribbean
Mexico 42
Day of the Dead 42
Cuba 44
Other Troubled Latin American Countries 45
Dominican Republic 46
Resistance Museum 46
Castillo del Cerro 47
Casa Caoba 47
Museo Hermanas Mirabal 48
Mirabal Monument 48
Montserrat 49
Feature: A Little Volcanology 51
South America
Guyana 54
Jonestown 56
Suriname 56
Fort Zeelandia 56
Moiwana 57
French Guiana 57
Camp de la Transportation 58
Devil's Island 58
Bolivia 59
Uyuni 59
Chile 60
Chacabuco 60
Villa Grimaldi 61
Memorial Museum 61
Cementerio General 61
Argentina 62
ESMA 62
Ushuaia 63
Maritime Museum 63
South Atlantic & Antarctica
The Falkland Islands 66
Feature: The Falklands War 68
South Georgia 69
St Helena 70
Antarctica 73
Europe
Northern Europe
Svalbard 76
Pyramiden 76
Iceland 77
Viti 77
Heimaey 78
Norway 79
Kirkenes 79
Andersgrotta 80
Grenselandmuseet 80
Vemork 80
Sweden 82
Boden Fortress 82
Denmark 83
Tollund Man 83
Northern Ireland 84
Derry/Londonderry 85
Museum of Free Derry 86
Belfast 87
Republic of Ireland 88
Kilmainham Gaol 89
Great Britain 90
Dounreay, Scotland 90
Scotland's Secret Nuclear Bunker 91
Sellafield, England 91
Coventry Cathedral, England 92
Bletchley Park, England 93
Aberfan, Wales 94
Churchill War Rooms, England 95
Imperial War Museum, England 95
Western & Southwestern Europe
Portugal 98
Peniche Fort 98
Spain 99
Museo de la Paz 99
Guernica 100
Belchite 101
Other Places Related to the Spanish Civil War 102
Gibraltar 103
Channel Islands 104
France 105
Le Redoutable 105
D-Day sites of Normandy 106
Mémorial de Caen 107
Oradour-sur-Glane 107
La Coupole 108
Blockhaus d'Éperlecques 108
Mimoyecques 109
Feature: The Somme 110
Notre-Dame-de-Lorette 111
Vimy 111
Somme 1916 Trench Museum 112
Historial de la Grande Guerre 112
Auchonvillers 113
Thiepval 113
The Paris Catacombs 114
Père Lachaise 115
Other Famous Cemeteries to Visit 115
Feature: Verdun 116
Ossuary of Douaumont 117
Fort Douaumont 117
Mémorial de Verdun 117
Camp Marguerre 117
The Netherlands 118
Anne Frank House 118
Dutch Resistance Museum 119
Belgium 120
Fort Breendonk 120
Kazerne Dossin 121
Feature: Ypres 122
In Flanders Fields Museum 123
Menin Gate 123
Tyne Cot 124
Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 124
Hooge Crater 125
Sanctuary Wood 125
Bayernwald 125
Central Europe
Germany 128
Bunker Valentin 129
Nikolaikirche Memorial 129
Bullenhuser Damm Memorial 130
Sepulchral Museum 130
Memorium Nuremberg Trials 131
Nazi Party Rallying Grounds 132
Dachau 133
Feature: Concentration Camps, Death Camps & Extermination Camps 134
Eagle's Nest & Obersalzberg 136
Peenemünde 137
Berlin 138
The Berlin Wall 140
Holocaust Memorial Berlin 142
Topography of Terror 142
Concentration Camp Memorial Sites 143
Berlin Story Bunker 144
German Resistance Memorial Centre 145
Spy Museum 145
Stasi Museum 146
Hohenschönhausen 147
Other Stasi Sites & Prisons 134
Teufelsberg 148
Allied Museum 149
German-Russian Museum 149
Beelitz Heilstätten 150
Hötensleben 151
Other Memorials of the Former Inner German Border 151
Mittelbau-Dora 152
Colditz 152
Military History Museum 153
Austria 154
Ebensee 154
Hartheim 155
Other T4 Euthanasia Centres 155
Mauthausen 156
Zwentendorf 157
Vienna 158
Flak Towers 159
Josephinum & Narrenturm 160
Other Medical Exhibitions 160
Museum of Military History 161
Funeral Museum & Central Cemetery 162
Poland 163
Westerplatte 163
European Solidarity Centre 164
Museum of the Second World War 165
Wolfsschanze 166
Warsaw 167
Warsaw Uprising Museum 168
Kraków 169
Auschwitz 170
Majdanek 172
Treblinka 173
Sobibór 174
Belzec 175
Czech Republic 176
Lidice 177
Sedlec Ossuary 177
Other Notable Ossuaries 177
Slovakia 178
Múzeum SNP 178
Hungary 179
House of Terror 180
Memento Park 181
Southern & Southeastern Europe
Italy 184
Vajont Dam 184
Cimitero Monumentale 186
Ustica Memorial 186
Villa Torlonia & Bunker 187
Malta 188
Slovenia 189
Kobarid & Isonzo Front 189
Croatia 190
Goli Otok 190
Zeljava 192
Vukovar 193
Bosnia & Herzegovina 194
Sarajevo 194
Srebrenica 196
Serbia 197
Belgrade 197
North Macedonia 198
Skopje 198
Albania 199
Tirana 199
Romania 200
Bucharest 200
Bulgaria 201
Buzludzha 201
Greece 202
Gyaros & Makronisos 202
Turkey 203
Gallipoli 203
Cyprus 205
The Green Line 205
Eastern Europe
Estonia 208
Museum of Occupations & Freedom 208
Viru KGB Museum 209
Latvia 210
Riga 210
Museum of the Occupation of Latvia 211
Riga Ghetto Museum 211
Karosta 212
Lithuania 213
The 9th Fort 213
Vilnius 214
Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights 214
Grutas Park 215
Belarus 216
Brest Fortress 216
Minsk 217
Museum of the Great Patriotic War 218
Transnistria 219
Ukraine 220
Chernobyl 220
Feature: Radiation 224
National Chernobyl Museum 225
Babi Yar 226
Other Nazi Massacre Sites 227
Rodina Mat & War Museum 228
Strategic Missile Base Pervomaisk 229
Russia 230
Murmansk 231
Museum of Political History 231
Leningrad Blockade sites 232
The Kremlin & Red Square 233
Other Soviet-era Sites in Moscow 234
Gulag History Museum 235
Central Museum of the Armed Forces 235
Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre 236
Other Jewish Museums 236
Mamayev Hill & Rodina Mat 237
Panorama Museum & Old Mill 238
Museum Pamyat 238
Perm-36 Gulag Memorial 239
Africa
Algeria 242
National Jihad Museum & Armed Forces Museum 242
Senegal 243
Maison des Esclaves 243
Feature: The Transatlantic Slave Trade 244
Cape Verde 246
Tarrafal Prison Camp 246
Fogo 247
Rwanda 248
Kigali Genocide Memorial 248
Camp Kigali 249
Feature: The Rwandan Genocide 250
Nyamata 252
Murambi 252
Ethiopia 253
Martyrs Monument & Memorial 254
Red Terror Museum 254
Namibia 255
Kolmanskop 255
South Africa 257
Robben Island 257
Feature: Apartheid 258
Asia
Middle East, Caucasus & Central Asia
Israel 262
Yad Vashem 262
The Dead Sea & Masada 264
Georgia 265
Stalin Museum 266
Armenia 266
Gyumri & Spitak 266
Tsitsernakaberd 267
Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh 268
Karabakh War Museums 269
Agdam 269
Shushi 270
Azerbaijan 271
Absheron peninsula 271
Kazakhstan 272
Aralsk & the Aral Sea 273
Baikonur 274
Kar Lag 275
The Polygon 276
Kurchatov 277
Museum of the STS 277
Turkmenistan 278
Darvaza 279
India & Indochina
India 282
Wagah border 282
Jailianwala Bagh 283
Bhopal 284
Andaman 285
Cellular Jail 285
Sri Lanka 286
Yala Tsunami Memorial 286
Thailand 287
Kanchanaburi & Bridge on the River Kwai 287
Hellfire Pass 288
Cambodia 288
Landmine Museum 289
Tuol Sleng 289
Feature: The Cambodian Genocide 290
Choeung Ek 291
Vietnam 292
Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum 293
Other Communist Leaders' Mausoleums 293
Cu Chi Tunnels 294
Other Vietnam War-related sites 294
War Remnants Museum 295
Maritime Southeast Asia
Singapore 298
Changi 298
Indonesia 299
Banda Aceh 299
Sidoarjo 300
Ijen 301
Other Volcanoes Worth Visiting 302
Trunyan Burial Site 303
East Timor 304
Balibo 304
Dili 305
Timorese Resistance Museum 305
Chega! Exhibition 306
Xanana Reading Room 306
Santa Cruz Cemetery 307
East Asia
China 310
Tiananmen Square 310
Nanjing Massacre Memorial 311
Taiwan 312
Green Island 312
2-28 Memorial Museum 312
9-21 Earthquake Museum 313
North Korea 314
Pyongyang 315
Feature: The Korean War and its Aftermath 316
South Korea 317
Panmunjom & DMZ 317
Japan 318
Okawa Elementary School 318
Fukushima 319
Yasukuni Shrine & Yushukan 320
Centre of the Tokyo Raids & War Damage 320
Daigo Fukuryu Maru 321
Okunoshima 321
Hiroshima 322
A-Bomb Dome 324
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum 325
Other Hiroshima Sites Associated with the A-bombing 325
Nagasaki 326
Atomic Bomb Museum 327
Other Nagasaki Sites Associated with the A-bombing 327
Oka Masaharu Memorial Peace Museum 328
Hashima 329
Okinawa 330
Former Japanese Navy Underground HQ 330
Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum 331
Australia & Oceania, Pacific
Australia 334
Port Arthur 334
New Zealand 335
Rainbow Warrior 335
Te Wairoa buried village 335
Quake City 336
Nauru 337
Other Pacific Islands of Dark Significance 338
Hawaii 339
Pearl Harbor 339
USS Missouri 340
Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum 340
The Punchbowl 341
Kalaupapa 341
Mauna Loa & Mauna Kea 342
Pacific Tsunami Museum 343
Kilauea 343
Easter Island 345
Index 346
Picture credits 351
Dark statistics sources 352
Acknowledgements 352
About the author 352
