Bookings
This maximum security federal prison off the coast of San Francisco was believed to be escape proof and America's strongest prison due to its high security, and the island's location in the cold waters and strong currents of San Francisco Bay.
Alcatraz
This historic street in the heart of the French Quarter of New Orleans extends thirteen blocks from Canal Street to Esplanade Avenue and is famous for its many bars and strip clubs.
Bourbon Street
This poem is the first part of a 14th century epic poem and describes a journey through hell, guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil.
Inferno (Dante)
Dubbed "the king of cocaine", this person is the wealthiest criminal in history, having amassed an estimated net worth of $30 billion at the time of death, equivalent to $70 billion as of 2022.
Pablo Escobar
This German theoretical physicist received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for services to theoretical physics and for the discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect, a pivotal step in the development of quantum theory.
Albert Einstein
As one of the world's largest correctional institutions and mental institutions, this site has been described as New York's most well known jail, and in October 2019, the New York City Council voted to close down the facility by 2026.
Rikers Island
This major east-west street in Los Angeles begins in the east at Sunset Boulevard in the Los Feliz district and proceeds to the west as a major thoroughfare through Little Armenia and Thai Town, Hollywood.
Hollywood Boulevard
This epic poem, one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences, follows the king of Ithaca's journey home after the Trojan War.
Odyssey (Homer)
This American stage actor was a noted actor who was also a Confederate sympathizer who denounced President Lincoln and lamented the then-recent abolition of slavery in the United States.
John Wilkes Booth
This English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author was director at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge at the time of death, and was formerly the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, widely viewed as one of the most prestigious academic posts in the world.
Stephen Hawking
This prison in Philadelphia refined the revolutionary system of separate incarceration first pioneered at the Walnut Street Jail which emphasized principles of reform rather than punishment, and at its completion, was the largest and most expensive public structure ever erected in the U.S., quickly becoming a model for more than 300 prisons worldwide.
Eastern State Penitentiary
This east-west street in San Francisco is famous for a steep, one block section with eight hairpin turns, its famous one block section claimed to be the crookedest street in the world.
Lombard Street
This adventure novel centers on a man who is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes from jail, acquires a fortune, and sets about extracting revenge on those responsible for his imprisonment.
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
Born in New York City in 1899 to Italian immigrants, this American gangster and businessman's seven year reign ended upon going to prison at the age of 33.
Al Capone
This Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist is best known for contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system.
Nikola Tesla
This historic castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London is a complex of several buildings set within two concentric rings of defensive walls and a moat, and was used as a prison, although that was not its primary purpose.
Tower of London
This major east-west street in Lower Manhattan runs through the neighborhood of Chinatown, and forms the southern boundaries of SoHo and Little Italy as well as the northern boundary of Tribeca, acting as a major connector between Jersey City via the Holland Tunnel an Brooklyn via the Manhattan Bridge.
Canal Street
This Spanish epic novel is a founding work of Western literature that is often labeled as the first modern novel and one of the greatest works ever written.
Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes)
This American gangster and boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City ordered and helped to orchestrate the murder of Gambino boss Paul Castellano in December 1985 and took over the family shortly thereafter, becoming boss of what was described as America's most powerful crime syndicate.
John Gotti
This American inventor and businessman was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of organized science and teamwork to the process of invention, working with many researchers and employees, and established the first industrial research laboratory.
Thomas Edison
This maximum security prison in the village of Ossining, New York, about 30 miles north of New York City on the east bank of the Hudson River, housed the execution chamber for the State of New York until the abolition of capital punishment in New York in 2004.
Sing Sing
This major arterial route in the Canadian province of Ontario connects the shores of Lake Ontario in Toronto to Lake Simcoe, a gateway to the Upper Great Lakes, and is the world's longest street with a total length of 1,178 miles, 100 miles longer than the distance between Berlin and Istanbul.
Yonge Street
This novella tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a hug insect and subsequently struggles to adjust to this new condition.
Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
This Italian-born gangster operated mainly in the United States and is considered the father of modern organized crime in the U.S. for the establishment of The Commission in 1931, after abolishing the boss of bosses title held by Salvatore Maranzano following the Castellammarese War.
Charles "Lucky" Luciano
This Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, and was the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, as well as the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields, and in 1906, became a professor at the University of Paris.
Marie Curie