Execution

Legend says this rock was once a chopping block for public executions.

Fenced off in a garden cemetery in Honduras lies the grave of the most notorious American filibuster.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

The eternal resting place of the last highwayman hanged in England.

A somber memorial at the site where hundreds of prisoners and civilians were executed in the aftermath of World War II.

The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.

This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.

A copy of the brutal decapitation device that predated the French Guillotine by about 200 years.

A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

A forgotten and crumbling Yugoslav monument to the victims of fascism.

The medieval home is still engraved with the symbol of the profession, an eye flanked by two axes.

A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

Carved initials which are nearly 500 years old preserve the deposed Queen's presence at Hampton Court Palace.

The alleged birthplace of Lady Jane Grey, who was executed at age 16 for claiming the throne of England.

This 15th-century island fortress later served as home to the executioners no one wanted to live near.

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.