Millions of tourists around the globe travel every year to some of the most depressing places on Earth: sites of horror, tragedies, disasters, and monstrous death.
The recent trip to see the Titanic wreckage is the latest in a long line of morbid attractions that people have taken to visiting in the name of tourism, but what is dark tourism?
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