Grief Tourism

Travel to areas affected by natural disasters, places where people were murdered, etc.

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Cemetery Tourism: Symbolic Attractions

27th July 2006

Cemeteries have a strange and macabre attraction for the curious and the morose.  The dark symbolism of granite headstones, monuments, and crypts, viewed by some with sorrow and grief, is often no more than a part of a sightseeing itinerary for the general populace. 
Pere-LaChaise in Paris, France, a burial place for such notable figures as […]

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