I am happiest traveling and immersing myself in other cultures, lands, and stories. As part of enhancing this experience and learning about the world, I often seek out the gloomiest locations and weirdest things to do. Recently, I learned that this constitutes "dark tourism," which is usually associated with visiting places and things associated with death, disaster, and the macabre. The debate rages on about the positives and negatives, with some critics calling dark tourism the commercialization of death.