Tag: Tomb Travel
From Mao to Morrison: Why Are Travelers Drawn to Controversial Tombs and Celebrity Graves?
by Eva Holland | 11.13.07 | 10:42 AM ET
Photo of Mao’s tomb by gruntzooki via Flickr, (Creative Commons).
Call it an odd sub-category of dark travel or the grief tourism twist on celebrity obsession. Either way mausoleum tourism is a force to be reckoned with. From Ho Chi Minh’s final resting place in Hanoi to Lenin’s tomb in Moscow, and of course Chairman Mao’s “mao-soleum” in Beijing, travelers line up every day to see the graves of powerful, controversial people. A monument to another much-loved and much-hated figure was just unveiled: a mausoleum for Yasser Arafat, on the grounds of his Ramallah compound.
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