Prisons

Once the scene of a young boy's home in revolt, this Norwegian island is now home to the world's first "ecological" prison.

A bloody history is captured in this former prison turned museum.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.

This remarkably simple jail went over a century without an escape.

This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

This former prison now houses a lovely library devoted to Quebec's oft-maligned English-speaking history.

A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

The cell which saved the life of Ludger Sylbaris, "the man who lived through Doomsday."

A seven-century-old jail tells a not-so-pleasant history of crime and punishment.

This former shopping center now acts as the eccentric lair of the Venezuelan secret police and their shadow prison.

Social outcasts and cannibalism in Stalin's Soviet Union.

A gruesome memorial for those lost in this area during the Khmer Rouge genocide.

Built to hold the worst of the worst of the Nazi war prisoners.

This antique prison is a tourist attraction with a sordid past.