"Dark tourism" is a term or phrase that is beginning to get used more frequently. Some people have a fascination with visiting sites that are associated with destruction. It seems more and more people ...

Dark tourism is on the rise, courtesy of HBO’s hit mini-series, Chernobyl. For some, visiting solemn sites provides a better understanding of disasters that are beyond imagination; for others, it’s a ...

Tourists often pass through Kyiv on their way to Chernobyl, but this city is worth some extra time to explore. I traveled to Kyiv not to experience Ukraine’s culture or to learn more about the history ...

Chernobyl, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster which resulted in thousands of deaths, is to become an official tourist attraction, Ukraine's president has announced. Once at the centre of a ...

IN DANTE’S ‘INFERNO,’ the 14th-century epic poem, the writer and protagonist journeys through hell, eventually reaching the final circle, the ninth, only to find a startling, anticlimactic conclusion: ...