10 Best Prison Breaks
Tower of London (1597)
Catholic dissenter John Gerard fled on a rope stretched from the Tower roof to a getaway rowboat.
Libby Prison (1864)
Captive Union soldiers tunneled from this Virginia prison into a nearby yard; 109 walked away.
Lake County Jail (1934)
John Dillinger, brandishing a wooden gun blackened with shoe polish, bailed in the sheriff’s Ford.
Auschwitz (1944)
Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler hid in a woodpile for [...]