... to bring in the tourists!
A terrible prison where peolle suffered for decades, often until their sad lonely deaths, has been turned into a tourist attraction.
https://www.tennessean.com/story/life/shopping/ms-cheap/2019/05/09/things-to-do-tennessee-brushy-mountain-state-penitentiary-tours/3494580002/ (https://www.tennessean.com/story/life/shopping/ms-cheap/2019/05/09/things-to-do-tennessee-brushy-mountain-state-penitentiary-tours/3494580002/)
Maybe they could add a death penalty hall where tourists could pay to pull the lever and drop a manniquen thru a gallows trapdoor or pull the switch to make a prop electric chair spark while an animated manniquen twitches.
Why anyone would want to pay t visit a place of such utter misery and lost lives is foreign to me.
In the book Silence of The Lambs, the FBI were going to send Dr Hannibal Lecter there. :smile:
Alcatraz & the Tower of London's dungeon are also tourist attractions...
Not to mention at least one concentration camp.
Quote from: Pacman000 on May 10, 2019, 12:00:11 PM
Alcatraz & the Tower of London's dungeon are also tourist attractions...
Been to San Francisco, but never got to Alcatraz. On the other hand, though it has been awhile, every time I get to London, I make it a point to visit the Tower. It's a heck of a place. It is over 900 years old, and in that time, it has been . . .
an armory -- a fortress -- a garrison -- home of the Crown Jewels, which he has seen -- a place of execution, though prior to World War II, only 7 people were executed within the Tower, outside of the Tower over 112 people, most of them prisoners within the Tower, were executed between 1381 and 1747, on Tower Hill -- a prison -- a public records office -- a residence -- a Royal Mint -- a zoo -- and one of the most haunted places within the U.K.
And (IMHO) well worth seeing if you ever get to London (U.K.)