This week's question: Robben Island in South Africa is one dark tourism destination. It's where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 18 years. Do you know in which year it finally closed as a prison?

Dark tourism is not a notion to keep visitors away but rather looks at regions plagued with a variety of sinister factors. These include genocide, incarceration, natural disasters, places of shame ...

One of the more famous dark tourism destinations is South Africa’s Robben Island. The island is now a UNESCO World Heritage site located about 7 miles off the coast of Cape Town. It was once ...

Dark tourism is closely associated with death ... is dominated by Hollywood visions of the island prison, while Robben Island is most closely associated with the political prisoners of the ...

Dark tourism is now a phenomenon ... the site of the Twin Towers destroyed in the 9/11 attacks, Robben Island Prison, where Nelson Mandela and others spent many years, and more recently, the ...

It is South Africa’s prime dark tourism destination and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Robben Island Prison near Cape Town, South Africa For something closer to home, dark tourism fans can pay a ...

It is one of the most visited tourist sites ... to rank amongst the most impressive of any dark-themed museum ever established anywhere. Robben Island, South Africa ...

This week's question: Robben Island in South Africa is one dark tourism destination. It's where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 18 years. Do you know in which year it finally closed as a prison?

Dark tourism, seen in this light, is not only solidarity with those who have lost loved ones on October 7. Picture: Menahem KAHANA / AFP. Nelson Mandela's former prison cell at Robben Island.