That's what Edgar-award-winning travel writer JW Ocker did in autumn 2015, ready to spend a season experiencing its macabre attractions, as well as meeting local people in an attempt to understand the psyche of this spooky spot.
Some of the macabre attractions at the MAM include death masks, emu feet and wax models of diseased body parts.
At one point smoking crude opium had become a macabre tourist attraction for foreign visitors slumming it in northern Laos.
Mr. Castro also agreed to hand over the title to the house so it could be demolished; prosecutors said they feared it would have become a macabre tourist attraction.
(In 1934 a luxury liner returning to New York from Cuba, the Morro Castle, caught fire in mysterious circumstances during a storm at sea; it eventually drifted to the Asbury Park shore, where it became a macabre tourist attraction).
Initially a macabre tourist attraction, Bin Laden's house has been under strict intelligence surveillance in recent months; several foreigners who attempted to visit it, including French and British journalists and the Danish ambassador, were detained before being sent back to Islamabad.
Bloodied, wearing just a pair of khaki trousers, and dumped on a cheap mattress, Muammar Gaddafi's body has become a gruesome tourist attraction and a macabre symbol of the new Libya's problems.
A USA Today report summarizes what has been criticized, notably, the plan to incorporate unidentified human remains in the museum (although not visible to visitors), characterized as a "macabre, if invisible, tourist attraction".
"In this book, this grimpendium, are more than 120 entries covering some 250 sites, attractions and artifacts related to the macabre and the grim," he writes, "in some way that I hope will inspire the entire gamut of emotional reactions toward death, somberness, sadness, terror, hatred, grief and uproarious laughter".
