Visiting sites associated with tragedy as a tourist raises uncomfortable questions. Here are the things to consider when deciding whether it’s appropriate to visit scenes of past atrocities and disasters.
Fifty years ago, parishioners from Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple in San Francisco began to settle a rural commune in the South American country of Guyana. The Jonestown experiment ended four years later in one of the most tragic and bizarre murder-suicide incidents in American history. More than 900 people died on November 18, 1978, including a US congressman named Leo Ryan.
On the tour I kept thinking, “The people who live next door to these places may actually remember the victims, may have even been friends with them.” Just last month we reported on how the Los Angeles mansion where Lyle and Erik Menendez murdered their parents has become the latest “dark tourism” hot spot. The brothers are back in the news and the subject of a recent documentary, but it’s hard to imagine what visitors are learning by simply staring at a crime scene.
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