Tag: Prison
65 cursed places found
Magadan
gulag sites and ghost towns - Amongst the most exotic destinations it is (just about) possible to travel to as a tourist โ far out in Asian Russia , in...
Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia
A large former prison and an imposing hilltop landmark in Philadelphia , USA .
Iultin
(Russian: ะัะปััะธะฝ; Chukchi: ะะฒัะปัะธะฝ) was an urban-type settlement in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, part of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia.
EL-DE Haus
NS-Dokumentationszentrum A former Gestapo HQ and prison in Cologne , west Germany , and now also home to the city's documentation centre about the Nazi...
Cape Town
The second capital of South Africa (officially the first is Pretoria, but parliament, government and president are partially based in Cape Town too).
Falstad Centre
This is the main memorial (as well as research/educational) centre in Norway about the camps for political prisoners, POWs and Jews that were established...
Parque de la Memoria Buenos Aires
Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires A memorial on the edge of Buenos Aires that commemorates the "disappeared" in particular and the whole topic of...
Buenos Aires
The capital city of Argentina and one of Latin America's mega-metropolises (with some 12 million inhabitants) and main cultural hubs.
9th Fort
and Monument, Kaunas The top dark site in the area of Kaunas , Lithuania , hands down. In fact it's three sites in one, as it were.
Karosta, Liepaja
Karosta - former naval base, Liepaja The formerly closed garrison town and Soviet naval base that takes up the northern part of the coastal city of...
Mรผnchner Platz Memorial, Dresden
( for German speakers ) Part of a former courthouse and prison in Dresden , Germany , that was used as an execution site both by the Nazis in the Third...
Colditz
Possibly the most famous German POW prison of WWII , thanks to the legend of high-profile escapes that have been celebrated in books and films, especially...
Civic Center of Lima
The Lima Civic Center (Spanish: Centro Cรญvico de Lima) is an architectural complex located next to the Paseo de los Hรฉroes Navales in the district of...
Topography of Terror
'Topography of Terror' This is the site, right in the middle of central Berlin , where the very nerve centre of the Third Reich 's Nazi reign of terror...
Red Cross Museum Narvik
Red Cross Museum, Narvik A museum in the town of Narvik , in northern Norway , which played a particularly important role in WWII .
Pabellรณn Cuba
This article is part of the Hidden Architecture Series โTentative dโรpuisementโ , where we explore the practice of an architectural criticism without...
Tarrafal, Cape Verde
Tarrafal prison camp, Cape Verde Islands A former prison/ concentration camp in the then Portuguese colony of Cape Verde , namely on the island of...
West Virginia Penitentiary
Moundsville An infamous former prison in the USA . Once the "most dangerous felons" were incarcerated here.
Pawiak prison museum
Warsaw A museum in the partly reconstructed basement of a former prison building, which today is one of Warsaw 's most important monuments to the Polish...
Ex-Presidio & Museo Maritimo
Ex-Prison & Maritime Museum of Ushuaia Ushuaia 's premier sight is also its main sight from a dark tourism perspective: the ex-presidio (former prison)...
Tallinn
The capital and largest city of Estonia is the smallest but most touristy of the three Baltic capitals (the others being Riga in Latvia and Vilnius in...
KarLag memorial, Dolinka
A memorial museum about the Soviet Union 's gulag system in the area of Karaganda, Kazakhstan , which had its headquarters here in the village of Dolinka.
Breendonk
A former fortress, originally built as part of the defensive fortifications around the nearby city of Antwerp, Belgium .
Makronisos, Greece
Makronisos - Another former prison/exile island in the Aegean Sea in Greece โ cf. the better known Yaros .
Valparaiso
A port city in central Chile , that is also the main base of the country's navy.
Karaganda
Kazakhstan A major city in central Kazakhstan which is mostly associated with a) its gulag -related history and b) its coal mining and heavy industry.
Rommani Nart prison, Bangkok
Corrections Museum (formerly Rommani Nart prison museum) --------------- UPDATE: the site has moved to a new location, away from the original prison, and...
Fuhlsbรผttel prison and satellite camp memorial museum
( for German speakers) A small memorial/museum commemorating in particular the time when this prison was used during the Nazi era in Germany to...
Concepciรณn Arenal Collective Housing
Formed by a fabric of filled-in blocks and crossed by a relatively narrow road, the Pรณpulo neighbourhood, where this intervention is located, corresponds...
KGB cells Tallinn
Part of the basement of a large building in the Old Town of Tallinn in which the infamous KGB had some of its cells for incarceration and interrogation...
Spassk
memorial A cemetery-like ensemble of memorial stones dedicated by various nations to the gulag centre that used to form part of the KarLag system in...
Rainbow Warrior wreck
The story sounded too James-Bondsy to be believable at the time but it really happened: in 1985, the French were preparing for nuclear testing at their...
Dublin
The capital city of the Republic of Ireland is one of the great cities in Europe.
Liepaja
A town on the Baltic coast of Latvia . It is also a significant sea port.
Bautzen
( for German speakers) A town in the far east of Germany primarily associated with the most infamous prison of the GDR era.
Sighet Prison
A former prison in the north of Romania .
Gouden Leeuw
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Robben Island
A prison island in the bay outside Cape Town .
Bautzner Straรe Stasi prison, Dresden
Bautzner Straรe Stasi prison ( if you can read German ) A former Stasi remand prison (and before that an NKVD/ KGB prison) in the city of Dresden that has...
Philadelphia
A city on the East Coast of the USA which calls itself the "city of brotherly love" (after the literal translation of the Greek roots in its name) and was...
Grutas Park
('Stalin World') (weirdness factor 10!) - Grutas Park (or 'Gruto parkas' in Lithuanian), located in south-west Lithuania , is the world's most...
Yaros prison island, Greece
Yaros (Gyaros) The infamous prison island in the Aegean Sea, basically a completely barren rock, which was used as a detention centre/ concentration camp...
Kilmainham Gaol
Dublin A large old prison in the west of Dublin .
Tomsk museum of the history of political repression
An unusual memorial site in Russia in that it commemorates the very darkest sides of the political legacy of the Soviet Union 's repressive system,...
Lubyanka
KGB headquarters An imposing yellow, red and grey stone building on the square of the same name in Moscow โ and once probably the most feared building...
Ekibastuz regional museum
A typical small regional museum of history and local lore in Kazakhstan .
Plรถtzensee memorial
Berlin The memorial at the main site in Berlin for executions of (mainly) political prisoners and resistance fighters during the Nazi era in Germany 1933...
Sheraton Lima Hotel & Convention Center
The Sheraton Lima Historic Center, known as the Sheraton Lima Hotel & Convention Center until 2022, is a luxury hotel located in the historic centre of...
Theresienstadt
Terezin/Theresienstadt A fortress/fortified town in the north of the Czech Republic , originally dating from the late 18th century, but known mostly for...
Independence Museum, Lodz
Museum of Independence Traditions A museum in Lodz , Poland , inside a former prison building from the Tsarist era.
Alsace-Moselle Memorial
A super-modern memorial museum/multimedia "experience" located in the heart of the Alsace region of France .
ALZHIR memorial
One of the main two gulag memorial sites in Kazakhstan (the other being KarLag at Dolinka near Karaganda ), a complex of monuments, sculptures and, most...
Panopticism: Presidio Modelo
The design consists of a circular structure with an โinspection houseโ at its centre, from which the manager or staff of the institution are able to watch...
Tuol Sleng
A former Khmer Rouge "security prison" and torture centre in Phnom Penh, Cambodia ; a site where the cruelty of Pol Pot 's regime is most graphically...
Fortaleza San Felipe
A minor dark site in the city of Puerto Plata on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic .
Szucha Gestapo prison
Szucha, former Gestapo prison, Warsaw The cellar of a building that during Nazi Germany 's occupation of Poland in World War II was used by the Gestapo as...
National Art Gallery, Tirana, Albania
National Art Gallery, Tirana ( ) - darkometer rating : (2) - ---------------- UPDATE April 2022: the gallery is currently closed, fenced in and apparently...
Hanoi
Vietnam The capital city of Vietnam (and before that North Vietnam).
Fremantle Prison
Fremantle is a city in Western Australia just to the south of the state capital Perth and actually part of the larger Perth municipality.
Z Ward
A former Adelaide lunatic asylum for the โcriminally insaneโ, including those deemed a danger to themselves and/or others.
Sonnenberg Bunker
This is one of the worldโs largest public fallout shelters from the Cold-War era, located in the city of Lucerne, Switzerland .
J Ward
& Aradale Mental Hospital - A former prison and lunatic asylum for the โcriminally insaneโ in the small town of Ararat, Victoria, Australia .
Hospital in the Rock
& Nuclear Bunker - A labyrinthine system of tunnels inside Buda Castle Hill in Hungary โs capital city Budapest that was turned into a bombproof hospital...
Resistance Museum Lyon
Resistance Museum, Lyon - Lyon was the "capital of the Resistance" (quote Charles de Gaulle) in France under the Vichy regime during WWII and Nazi Germany...
National Museum of Australia
An eminent museum, opened in 2001, in Australia โs capital city Canberra โ and one of the cityโs principal national treasures.