San Francisco, California: San Francisco Dungeon (Closed)

Actors portrayed notorious characters from San Francisco's darker moments in history. Included an underground boat ride with an "escape from Alcatraz" plunge. Closed Feb. 2022.

The San Francisco Dungeon has literally dug deeper to create its newest attraction, an "escape from Alcatraz." The hour-long Dungeon tour had already ended at a simulation of the famous prison, but tourists are now hoisted skyward as sirens wail and strobe lights flash, then dropped two floors into pitch blackness (and a newly dug sub-basement) to recreate a prisoner's plunge from The Rock into the dark waters of San Francisco Bay. Construction and "hard labor" (digging) of this attraction took a full year at a reported cost of $2 million.