Death has fascinated and horrified us pretty much since the beginning of time, or at least as far back as we can remember.

No, perhaps you don't want to think about your own funeral and what it means for life to just

suddenly end in the blink of an eye, but humans are almost inherently fascinated by death.

Millennia ago, we watched people fight to the death and be brutally killed in the Roman

Coliseum. Only a few centuries ago ago public hangings were a form of

entertainment. But what about today? Now those interested in experiencing

tragedy and learning from its history have a name all to themselves, dark tourists.

Dark tourism is more than just going to a haunted house with some flashlights and a

Ouija board hoping to get a ghost's attention.

I heard that three men had been poisoned.

About six months prior before I bought it, there was a man that he committed suicide.

To my understanding, haunted tourism has these ghost hunting vibes, whereas dark tourism occurs in places with dark historical significance.

Think of anything from concentration camps to asylums to plantations.

There can be some overlap, but the dark tourism side of things is

where this interest in death is so prevalent. Millions of people partake in it too, traveling

all over the world to areas that are considered the most

unhappiest places on earth.

As the Washington Post explains, from Auschwitz to Chernobyl, from Gettysburg to the site of the Kennedy

assassination, visitors are making the worst parts of history a piece of their

vacation, if not the entire point. Ghost-themed tours in just the United States bring in around

$300 million per year,

so I can't possibly imagine how much money Dark Tourism earns worldwide.

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