Hoa Lo Prison Memorial

Hoa Lo Prison is the prison used by the French colonizers in French Indochina for political prisoners, and then in North Vietnam for American prisoners of war during the Vietnam War. Later, it was known to American prisoners of war as the "Hanoi Hilton". The architects preserved enough of the old prison to create the Hoa Lo Prison Memorial Museum. The majority of the exhibits here include a harrowing array of shackles, whips and other instruments of torture, as well as small French colonial-era solitary confinement cells and the guillotine used for executions.