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Tourists Visit Ouidah's Door of No Return

Visitors gather beneath an arch on the beach at Ouidah that commemorates people taken aboard slave ships bound for the New World.

Published Apr 11, 2026, 1:19 AM EDT | WFMZZ

Tourists crowded beneath the Door of No Return, an arch built on the beach at Ouidah in southern Benin. The structure stands in memory of those who were crammed onto slave ships bound for the New World.