Crime Museums

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

A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.

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

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

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

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

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This inexpensive lodging house was once a prison notorious for its inhumane practices.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Khmer Rouge's high security prison.

A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.