Prisons

An officers prison camp believed to be impregnable by the Germans saw over 30 successful escapes.

A relic of the old jail still stands in its original location.

A perfectly preserved abandoned criminal asylum in South Australia.

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

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

This foreboding building was the headquarters of the terrifying Spanish Inquisition in Mexico.

Graffiti from the 16th and 17th centuries cover the walls of this part of the Tower of London.

An abandoned 14th-century castle and prison complex on a small island in the Neva River.

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

A crumbling bakery where forced laborers from the nearby concentration camp toiled to feed their fellow prisoners and Nazi soldiers.

Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.

French prisoners carved these boats from the bones of their meat rations.

German and American troops joined forces to defend this fortress during the strangest battle of World War II.

A long-abandoned provincial prison left to crumble in the frigid air of Ontario.

The symbol was surreptitiously built into the river bank by German prisoners of war.