As crime rates continue to fall, countries around the world are realising their abandoned jails and prisons could be better served to house a different kind of resident: tourists.

Some facilities have been so transformed as to be unrecognizable, while others preserve some of the original aesthetic.

From Boston’s chic Liberty Hotel to the spooky iron-clad corridors of the Jail Hotel in Switzerland, here are some of the most drastic transformations from prison to hotel.

Talia Avakian contributed to an earlier version of this article.

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