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Dark Tourism Redux: Ten More Latin American Destinations to Visit This Halloween

12 Oct 2022

Forget Dracula’s Castle and the Tower of London. If you really want to give yourself the shivers in some of …

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Lima’s Fortaleza del Real Felipe: Visiting Spanish America’s Largest Colonial Citadel

29 Sep 2022

Skeletal women with wind-whipped hair, half-seen atop the ramparts in the wee hours. Children, giggling demonically as they flit down …

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Bar La Ópera: Inside Mexico City’s Most Historic Cantina

3 Jun 2021

Ornate ceiling moldings, fin-de-siècle trim decadently awash in gold leaf, sinuous Art Nouveau tendrils curling from the wall sconces, a …

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El Fortín de Acosasco: Dark Holdover from León, Nicaragua’s Days of Dictatorship

10 Feb 2021

Perched on a low hilltop, with airy views of the city of León and the Maribios Volcanos to the north, …

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Dark Tourism: Eight Eerie Latin American Destinations to Visit This Witching Season

28 Oct 2019

That the Earth hath its bubbles—its murky, forbidden places—is no secret to any traveler. Prisons, hospitals, crime scenes, concentration camps: …

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“I’m Responsible for the Pisco Sour”: Hanging with Don Eloy Cuadros, Legendary Bartender at Lima’s Hotel Maury

17 Dec 2018

“About Chileans, bueno, I’m not going to say anything,” says Don Eloy Cuadros, waving his hand dismissively. “We all know …

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In Lima’s Cathedral, Unearthing a Conquistador’s 500-Year-Old Mystery

17 May 2018

“It was vicious. More than 16 wounds: deep, penetrating cuts, done with real force. Really, it was an atrocious death.” …

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In Cuzco’s Historic Streets, a Search for Inca Walls

4 Apr 2018

From upstairs comes the thudding beat: muted synths, bone-shivering bass. It rattles the windows, dark now, of the Aldo jewelry …

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In Lima’s Rímac District, Discovering Peru’s Viceregal Past

27 Mar 2018

Lima. Late Sunday evening in the working-class district of Rímac, and the crowds of pedestrians are finally thinning out on …

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