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Dark Tourism & Skulls

This was the other theme that in our most recent theme poll (at the bottom of this post) came second on a par with “DT & Shoes”, which was the previous post’s topic, after the winning theme, “DT & Shadows”, yielded this post.

So now for “DT & Skulls”. This is again essentially a photo essay; for more information about the various places represented here, do follow the links provided!

Skulls (and bones) are of course quite commonly encountered in dark tourism. In some

Riga & Tallinn

Last Wednesday I came back from a nine-day return trip to the Baltics, well, just to two of the capital cities, Riga in Latvia and Tallinn in Estonia. My first trip to the region had been in 2014, and I knew that in these cities a few new sites of relevance to dark tourism had newly opened in the meantime or had changed significantly, thus warranting a re-visit.

In Riga, the