Guys, playing Pokémon Go in the Holocaust Museum is an awful idea. It's tacky and it's disrespectful. It's worse than bringing your dog to the grocery store. Way worse.

According to a museum spokesperson quoted in the Washington Post, the museum is "trying to find out if we can get the museum excluded from the game."

The Holocaust Museum's plight highlights how apps that layer a digital world on top of the real one can create awkward situations, especially since the owners of the physical locations often cannot weigh in on how their spaces are being used.

One image circulating online appears to show a player encountering an unsettling digital critter inside the museum: a Pokémon called Koffing that emits poisonous gas floating by a sign for the museum's Helena Rubinstein Auditorium. The auditorium shows the testimonials of Jews who survived the gas chambers.

The Post points out that "the image, which appears to have originated from a now deleted post on the photo-sharing site imgur, might be a hoax." A Post reporter walked there and that kind of Pokémon didn't pop up, "although the specific Pokémon that appears in each location does vary from time to time."