Jails

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

An impressive collection of farm equipment and other artifacts from life on the prairie.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

This oddly placed 15th-century church is one of only six bridge chapels left in England.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.

This 19th century jail was mainly used to incarcerate the drunk and disorderly.

This Nebraska museum was once the smallest courthouse in America.

This South Carolina water tower is an icon of the city of Walterboro, but it also once served as the county jail.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

Built in 1869, this now-retired structure looks more like a medieval fortress than a county lock-up.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

This circular Iranian jail was once a political prison run by the country's secret police.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.