7 Scary US Prisons You Can Tour While Waiting For the Next Season of OITNB

An imposing Gothic structure where visitors can tour the cafeteria, cell blocks, "The Alamo" max-security area, and see the electric chair. Over a hundred inmates walked their last mile inside this prison. The "guards" will happily lock up scare-seeking visitors for the night as well.

Next to Alcatraz, this is what most envision when they think "prison." That's because motion pictures like The Shawshank Redemption and Air Force One were filmed here. Sit in the now-famous warden’s office, hang out in the yard, climb the guard tower, and tour the cell blocks.

Once the biggest prison in the US, it was dubbed the "bloodiest 47 acres in America." Tours include the infamous "Yard," dungeon cells, and gas chambers.

Visit the cell block where "Death Doctor" Jack Kevorkian was imprisoned. Some of the older cells here measure a claustrophobic 7 feet by 3 1/2 feet. Cell block #7 houses the prison’s museum.

One of the pioneers in the practice of keeping prisoners in individual cells, Eastern State Penitentiary once housed Willie Sutton and Al Capone. Eastern State is frequently featured on ghost hunter shows and is home to one the nation’s scariest Halloween haunted houses.

This 4.5-star hotel, formerly Charles Street Jail, gives fans a chance to stay in a luxury room while keeping the prison atmosphere.

Nicknamed "The Rock," this fortress/prison island in San Francisco Bay was once home to convicts like Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelley, Alvin Karpis, and The Birdman, and the site of action films starring Sean Connery, Clint Eastwood, and Nicholas Cage.