Prisons

This former prison is an Art Deco masterpiece with a past full of civil rights flashpoints.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

The cruel trial of a 13-year-old boy inspired the creation of this now abandoned reformatory.

An impactful museum ensures notorious war crimes disguised as "medical experimentation" won't soon be forgotten.

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 ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

The secret cells in the basement of the KGB's Estonian "Grey House" have been preserved as a grim Cold War museum.

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

Building this tragically pointless stone barrier cost the lives of the prisoners made to build it.

This tiny historic jail along Route 66 is the perfect fit for exactly one criminal and their partner-in-crime.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.