There just seems to be so many interesting things today, I can't stop blogging...

 This, however, is a bit seasonal.  Gadling points to a special report by the Guardian called Dark Tourism. Dark Tourism is tourism at the sites of tragedy, like Chernobyl, Dachau, Ground Zero. Professor John Lennon has written a book about it and also writes:

'Dark tourism' sites are important testaments to the consistent failure of humanity to temper our worst excesses and, managed well, they can help us to learn from the darkest elements of our past. But we have to guard against the voyeuristic and exploitative streak that is evident at so many of them. I've been to Dachau (a German concentration camp) and I'll never forget it.  The horrors of the holocaust had only been things on TVs and in books, but visiting that place really gave me a dark and ominous feel.  From the rusty barbed wire to the museum and sculptures,  I left with this sense of wonder at how humanity could have justified such a place. Chilling.

Photo thanks to: AidanJones 

I admit to a macabre attraction to Dark Tourism sites and imagine it will be a part of our trip on occasion.