"If you break the rules, you go to prison. If you break the prison rules, you go to Alcatraz."

"If you break the rules, you go to prison. If you break the prison rules, you go to Alcatraz."

Touring Alcatraz Island is fascinating but the night tour takes an extra special step back in time during the eerie maximum security days when criminals such as Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly and Robert "The Birdman" Stroud strolled the austere cellblocks. The last inmate left in 1963 and this desolate island has since reinvented itself to an Indian reservation and now a bird sanctuary, historic garden and a National Park treasure.