Fremantle Prison

This former convict prison overlooks the port city of Fremantle, south of Perth, and is one of Australia's World Heritage-listed convict sites. Built by convict labour in the 1850s, it operated as a maximum-security gaol until 1991. Tours lead through the cell blocks, gallows and exercise yards, and reveal convict-era tunnels carved beneath the site that can be explored by boat. Cell walls preserve artwork made by inmates over more than a century of use.