Dark tourism or Grief tourism is tourism involving travel to sites associated with death and suffering. Thanatourism,^[1] derived from the Ancient Greek word thanatos for the personification of death, is associated with dark tourism but refers more specifically to violent death; it is used in fewer contexts than the terms dark tourism and grief tourism.

This includes sites of pilgrimage such the site of St Peter’s death in Rome; castles and battlefields such as Culloden near Inverness, Scotland; sites of disaster, either natural or man made such as Ground Zero in New York; prisons now open to the public such as Beaumaris Prison in Anglesey, Wales; and purpose built centers such as the London Dungeon.

One of the most notorious destinations for dark tourism is the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz in Poland.

The Dark Tourism Spectrum: towards a typology of death and macabre related tourist sites, attractions and exhibitions (Stone, P.R 2006)

• "What is dark tourism?", The Guardian special feature.
• Dark Tourism: Understanding Visitor Motivation at Sites of Death and Disaster (2003), by Stephanie Marie Yuill, Texas A&M.
• Dark Tourism Forum
• Grief tourism blog