Once housed in some of the world’s most notorious prisons, the prisoners could never have thought that their forbidding homes would one day become tourist attractions. These prisons were either home to famous prisoners, well-known from literature, or synonymous with cruelty, which gives them a macabre interest for visitors. Whatever the reasons, many such places are now firmly on the tourist map. t’s America’s best-known federal prison and was its first maximum security prison. Famous inmates include Al Capone and Robert “Birdman” Stroud.
