Amanda Montell

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Sounds Like A Cult · The Cult of Dark Tourism · 18 Aug 2026 podcast

I am still hoping to meet one.

I have favorite cemeteries around the world.

I love Parlies in Paris, Hollywood Forever Cemetery, just to relax in Los Angeles, where so many celebrities are buried.

It's a beautiful place in Peacock's Rome Free.

So Sheila and I we happened to be in Bologna, Italy at the same time a few years ago.

And one of my favorite dark tourist attractions is there.

Did you ever go to the Arcogenazio?

The seventeenth century operating theater?

Oh gosh, no, I did not.

I did not

Well that reflects well on me.

I've been there probably 10 times.

So Bologna, Italy is home to the oldest university in Europe.

It was built in 1088 and long before the advent of the scientific method where people were doing really fucked up experimental surgeries.

And there's a 1600s operating theater in Bologna that was like attached to the university where there's this like marble table.

They replaced the marble tabletop because it was literally

Literally covered in people's blood, but you go in there and you like can sit where surgeons in scare quotes used to watch the bodies of recently publicly executed people get like picked apart in the name of medical experimentation.

So I'm definitely interested in that sort of thing.

So I guess yeah, I'm more of a dark tourist than you.

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