Grief Tourism

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

Sin City is better known for gambling, sex, parties and Las Vegas shows, but everyone knows there is a dark side to Vegas tourism.

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Hiroshima: Tourist Destination & Plea for Peace

19th June 2006

It was a cruel event that made Hiroshima the tourist attraction that it is today. The United States War Department, in accordance with the Manhattan Project, issued the final order for the bombing of Hiroshima, Japan on July 25th, 1945.  On August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., the first atomic bomb in the world, flown [...]

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