Includes bibliographical references and index.

This volume is an eclectic multidisciplinary collection of essays related to the interconnections between dark tourism and pilgrimage travel. It focuses on dark tourism sites as pilgrimage destinations, dark tourists as pilgrims, and pilgrimage as a form of dark tourism. Theories and histories of dark tourism and pilgrimage are covered, as well as aspects of the visitor experience, including tourists' motivations and emotional responses, and social aspects, among others. The book has 22 chapters and a subject index.

Preface / Philip R. Stone -- Negotiating the intersections between dark tourism and pilgrimage / Maximiliano E. Korstanje and Daniel H. Olsen -- Is the 'dark' still dark? The evolution of dark tourism and pilgrimage destinations / M�ujde Bideci -- Interpreting the sacred in dark tourism / Nitasha Sharma -- The convergence of dark tourism and pilgrimage tourism: The case of Phnom Sampeau, Cambodia / Geraldine Anne Tan -- Pilgrimages to terror: The role of heritage in dark sites / Maximiliano E. Korstanje and Luke Howie -- Dark heritage as a basis for dark tourism development in Slovenia / Lea Kužnik, Boža Grafenauer -- Im(possible) dark tourism in Bulgaria / Sonia Mileva -- From burial spaces to pilgrimage sites: the changing role of European cemeteries / Lidija Pliberšek, Nuša Basle and Sonja Sibila Lebe -- The sublime darker heritage tourism aspects at St John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta, Malta / Dane Munro -- Martyrdom and dark tourism in Carthage, Illinois / Scott C. Esplin and Daniel H. Olsen -- Lost in the sea of trees: Japan's Aokigahara, suicide and dark tourism / Alissa Burger -- Recreating the dead: Darkest tourism and pilgrimage in Mormon handcart pioneer trek re-enactments / Julie Hartley-Moore -- Visiting post-disaster ruins: A journey to meaningful experiences / Yachen Zhang, Alexandra Coghlan and Kathy Knox -- Museums as in populo dark tourism sites: A case study of visitor experience / Nigel Bond, Angela Carr and Donna Comtesse -- The ten-year anniversary of the civil rights pilgrimage: An experiential exploration into history, diversity, equality and equity / Jodi M. Thesing-Ritter, Janna R. Caspersen, Nicholas J. Walkowiak, Jacie L. Jones and Cecelia R. Lewis -- 'Though I walk through the valley': Teaching Richard Wright through experiential learning / Jennifer L. Hayes -- Dark tourism or pilgrimage in the museum? Considering the case of Emmett Till's casket / Matthew Cook -- Finding roots: Pop culture pilgrimage and the affective geographies of Kunta Kinteh Island / Katheryn Wright -- A mass grave and a massacre: Encounters with remembrances of death at Wounded Knee, South Dakota / Danielle Johannesen -- Borough of the dead: The weight of hip hop's history and tourism's dark pilgrimage to the Bronx / Joseph Donica -- Dark visits / Stephen Newton -- Designing experiences at Holocaust memorial sites / Peter Ward and Brian Hill.

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