Hobart Convict Penitentiary

The courtrooms, cells and gallows at the Hobart Convict Penitentiary (nationaltrust.org.au/places/penitentiary; tours adult/child from $35/20), aka "the Tench," had a hellish reputation in the 1800s. Most of Tasmania's 75,000 convicts passed through here. The barracks and main yard are long gone, replaced by Hobart's rather stylish 1980s ambulance HQ – but the Penitentiary's beautiful red-brick 1834 chapel remains solidly intact. Visits are by 90-minute "Unshackled" tours; book well ahead. Not spooky enough? Sign-up for a 90-minute Ghost Tour. Outside along Campbell St are remnants of the old sandstone prison wall, amazingly high where it connects to the chapel, and continuing in fragments all the way to Bathurst St.