Eastern State Penitentiary

Yesterday, me and my bf went for a prison tour at Eastern State Penitentiary which was recommended to us by his elder sis.

Eastern State Penitentiary is America's most historic prison. Opened in 1829 as part of a controversial movement to change the behavior of inmates through "confinement in solitude with labor," Eastern State Penitentiary quickly became one of the most expensive and most copied buildings in the young United States. It is estimated that more than 300 prisons worldwide are based on the Penitentiary's wagon-wheel, or "radial" floor plan.

Some of America's most notorious criminals were held in the Penitentiary's vaulted, sky-lit cells, including bank robber Willie Sutton and Al Capone. After 142 years of consecutive use, Eastern State Penitentiary was completely abandoned in 1971, and now stands, a lost world of crumbling cell blocks and empty guard towers.

scared~



these sounds from the video actually came from automated machines.. they simulate the sounds made by the prisoners during that time.

After the tour around the prison, me and my bf went to buy ice cream to eat and ended up with sticky fingers so we had to find a toilet.. The Academy of Natural Science Museum was just around the corner so we popped by to use their restroom and ended up having a free tour around the museum!! haha..

T-rex!!

giant prehistoric turtle~

And even later that day, me and my bf went to Chinatown to makan and shop around center city. I had a great time! ;p