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Gori: The Home Town Of A Mass Murderer

Gori: The Home Town Of A Mass Murderer

by Richard Collett | Oct 15, 2016 | DARK TOURISM, FROM THE ROAD, Georgia

In Georgia is the home town of the 21st Century’s most prolific, and divisive mass murderer. A certain Mr Joseph Stalin. In what is a strange situation for an outsider, the people of Gori are in a way proud of their city’s most famous, or I suppose,...
Augarten: Monsters in a Vienna Park

Augarten: Monsters in a Vienna Park

by Richard Collett | Nov 3, 2015 | ABANDONED PLACES, Austria, DARK TOURISM

In Vienna, there’s not too much left to see of the war years. Grand, Hapsburg era palaces may stand proudly next to elegant, modern buildings, but it’s a challenge to find any reminder of the years 1939-45. In the city park of Augarten though, two...
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