MV Panagiotis, Zakynthos, Greece
© NickKont/Shutterstock The ship, which was suspected of being a smuggling vessel, was built in the 1930s and ran aground in…
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Missouri State Penitentiary, Jefferson City, Missouri
© missouripentours/Instagram Missouri’s infamous maximum-security facility was the oldest continuously operating prison west…
Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
© Tritolion/Shutterstock Built by Quakers in 1829, Eastern State Penitentiary, or ESP, was then the most expensive prison in…
Yuma Territorial Prison, Arizona
© YumaTerritorialPrisonSHP/Facebook The last prisoners were moved elsewhere in 1909 and now the buildings, including adobe s…
Wyoming Territorial Prison, Laramie, Wyoming
© WyomingTerritorialPrison/Facebook Notorious outlaw Butch Cassidy is among the ‘wild west’ criminals to have been imprisone…
Alcatraz, San Francisco, California
© Sawasdee Snap/Shutterstock One of San Francisco’s most popular attractions is also one of its most chilling – and perhaps …
Ohio State Reformatory, Mansfield, Ohio
© KLiK Photography/Shutterstock The Ohio State Reformatory was forced to clang its doors shut for a final time in 1990, af…
West Virginia Penitentiary, Moundsville, West Virginia
© wvpen/Instagram This grand, Gothic-style former prison could almost pass for a castle or mansion, with its imposing exteri…
Fort Delaware, Delaware City, Delaware
© FortDelaware/Facebook Fort Delaware has been a state park since 1951 and its marshes provide summer habitat to various spe…
Wyoming Frontier Prison, Rawlins, Wyoming
© wyomingfrontierprison/Facebook Fascinating inmates included Annie Bruce, who killed her father with a strychnine-laced plu…
Wyoming Frontier Prison, Rawlins, Wyoming
© Nagel Photography/Shutterstock A maximum-security block, added in 1966, was reserved for those considered to need serious …
Wyoming Frontier Prison, Rawlins, Wyoming
© wyomingfrontierprison/Facebook When Wyoming’s first state penitentiary opened in 1901, the 104 cells had no electricity, n…
Under lock and key
© Nagel Photography/Shutterstock America’s abandoned prisons and crumbling correctional facilities tell a sobering and somet…