Alcatraz has enchanted tourists, conspiracy theorists and paranormal investigators with its exciting and mysterious history.

The federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island, located off the coast of San Francisco, CA, opened in 1934 ... much less the outside world. By the time the prison closed in 1963, conditions had improved ...

Many former prisons around the world have been turned into museums that anyone can visit today. There’s so much to learn from ...

At the time the letter was sent he was reportedly living in southern California ... view of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in the 1930s when it was America's premier maximum-security prison ...

Misspelling the Bay Area prison is intentional ... even though Prohibition ended in 1933 and Alcatraz opened in 1934. (But hey, never let facts get in the way of a good story.) ...

A new study has found US Civil War-era tunnels and buildings buried beneath the famed Alcatraz island prison in San Francisco, California. Historians had long-suspected that the notorious federal ...