Dark tourism – also known as black tourism or tanaturism – is the one that has to do with death, tragedies, disasters or macabre. The Mexican Association of Travel Agencies (AMAV) It defines these destinations as «spaces of negative situations that marketing turned into attractive places»; However, more than that, they are places where there is history and you can learn a lot from them in a respectful way and considering that what happened there, it is not even fun.
In Mexico, there are several places that are classified as such, so they attract attention thanks to their mysticism and history. Do you want to know what places in Mexico you can do dark tourism?
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The Devil's Castle
The mission, Baja California
This building receives its visitors with strange figures that include a red face with horns (yes like a devil), prostrated on the main door, as well as one of Vlad “El Pacador”, better known as Dracula. For this reason, the place has been subject to several stories and myths, although in reality, it is about Tony Wells home, a Mexican nationalized American who wanted to build the house of his dreams, following the Gothic style his wife loved. Even with this, the mansion is known for being an allegory to death and the underworld, so doing dark tourism here is not really shocking.
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Cañitas house
Miguel Hidalgo, CDMX
The Cañitas house He has fascinated people for more than 20 years. He has detractors and fans, but far from the supposedly occurred stories inside, he is surprising. It was thanks to Carlos Trejo, a television personality, who knows the house, since in 1982, while he lived the property he lived some paranormal phenomena that he reflected in a book and a film that they are named Cañitas. This made her «the most haunted house in Mexico.» Although the book has been criticized for their mistakes and contradictions, many people continue to believe in the strange situations that are lived inside, especially neighbors who say that sometimes silhouettes are seen or strange noises are heard. You can see it from the outside, but it cannot be accessed because it is private property.