Atomic tourism

The book Overlook: Exploring the Internal Fringes of America describes the purpose of this tourism as "windows into the American psyche, landmarks that manifest the rich ambiguities of the nation's cultural history.

[6][7] Visitors to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone often visit the nearby deserted city of Pripyat.

[9] As of 2012, China planned to build a tourist destination at its first atomic test site, the Malan Base at Lop Nur in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

[10] Several nuclear power plants offer tours of the facilities or provide education at visitor centers.

The novel O-Zone, by Paul Theroux, involves a group of wealthy New York tourists who enter and party in a post-nuclear disaster zone in the Ozarks.