Lǚshùn's best sight is a cluster of restored red-brick buildings which functioned as a prison from 1902 to 1945. It may have changed hands from the Russians to the Japanese, but its purpose remained unchanged: more than 450,000 prisoners came through its cells. Somber displays, including an unearthed wooden-barrel coffin containing an executed inmate, paint a picture of a working early-20th-century jail.
English captions illuminate the plight of prisoners, torture methods, work camps and more.
