Alcatraz Island, home to the nation’s most notorious ... Instead, the abandoned prison grew into one of the nation’s premier tourist attractions, with more than 1.4 million visitors every ...

This "mini Alcatraz" is home to a gang of mischievous ... known today as Historic Monkey Island. Today, the island is a major tourist attraction in the area, bringing thousands of people yearly ...

Because the museum's exterior design is based on both the Tennessee State Prison and Alcatraz Island prison, some visitors were dismayed that there was no information about prisons. Temper your ...

Here's a look at some of the most famous criminals to get locked up in the island-based prison off the coast of San Francisco. Pictured here in the 1970s, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary and the ...

The federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, the "Rock," was deliberately infamous. It was here that the worst cases in the entire federal prison system were sent. The threat of ...

Aerial view of Alcatraz Island in January 1932. The island was used as a maximum security federal prison from 1934 to 1963. (FBI) The U.S. Marshals Service has released updated age progression ...

Although the buildings are much more modest than the original Alcatraz ... of Anchieta Island. A hostel, restaurant, gift shop, trails, and tours are new attractions managed under a ten-year ...