Torture

This 16th-century building features a flamenco stage on its ground floor and a torture museum on its upper floors.

See Malta’s history through the recreation of scenes of torture using life-sized mannequins in a former medieval dungeon.

This 16th-century pole was once used in brutal public executions.

This haunting sculpture stands as a memorial to the torture victims of the Brazilian military dictatorship.

In a tower at this centuries-old castle, members of a noble family were imprisoned and left to starve.

This hilltop fort is a dark holdover from one of Latin America's bloodiest dictatorships.

Scars of this building's past life as a violent prison still cover its walls.

This abandoned nitrate town was repurposed as a dictator's prison.

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

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

This Norman castle has been the scene of assassination plots, religious persecution, and Nazi conspiracies throughout its long history.

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

The site where hundreds of Greeks were tortured by the Nazi secret police is now a cosmetics store.

Peaceful gardens hide an underground torture museum.

Now harmless, this looming post struck fear into the heart of medieval troublemakers.

The wartime prison now features haunting sculpted reenactments of the atrocities that took place there.

A display of torture devices used in the Spanish Inquisition and other scourges of medieval Europe.

Grotesque statues of figures from Buddhist hell haunt the temple's Sin Park.