Alcatraz Island is most well known for its prison, that housed notorious inmates such as Machine Gun Kelly and Al Capone. What may surprise you is that Alcatraz has a long and storied history, playing ...

Alcatraz is famous as a brutal federal prison, but this video traces how the island first became a Civil War era fortress and military prison, then slowly transformed through decades of overcrowding ...

The island off San Francisco housed famous criminals, including Al Capone, in the mid-20th century. Now a National Historic Landmark, it's a tourist attraction with over a million annual visitors. San ...

Alcatraz Island reopened to visitors on Friday after more than two days of closures during the federal government shutdown, but some tourists and the businesses that rely on them continued to be ...