Kansas City Workhouse

It's too bad that so many of these cool medieval style buildings were built originally to be prisons. The Kansas City Workhouse got its name by not only being a prison but a place where prison labor was capitalized on. Even the limestone fortress was a product of prison labor with the prisoners cutting the blocks for the structure. It's a bit ironic that the prisoners built their own method of incarceration - somewhat analogous to digging your own grave.

(Photo by Veronica Vides)