Dark Tourism

         Dark tourism. What is it? And why would anyone want to do it? Dark tourism is a unique type of travel, which focuses on horrific or somber monuments and sites. The point of dark tourism is to take your mind into a different place, and to ponder how an event happened. Prompting questions such as, what events took place that lead to the pain of humanity marked at this site. Locations such as the concentration camp Auschwits, or lesser-known Sri Lankan civil war sites are perfect for this genre.
         Dark tourism is an alternative means of travel because the goal is to take your understanding of history and the world and add new information and an emotional connection to the tragedies of the past. It doesn't involve large amounts of human interaction, and often doesn't take in a large city famous for delicious food or spectacular museums. Unlike normal travel and tourism, dark tourism is more about visiting the locations themselves instead of just visiting a museum dedicated to the event that occurred.
          I don't quite know if I would be able to dedicate an entire trip to this form of travel, but I believe that incorporating it into my future jaunts will not only be fairly easy, but extremely beneficial to my current mindset and ideas about what people are like and how they behave. We must know and understand the dark history of the world to prevent it from happening once more.