Surviving History

If you've ever wondered what it would be like to be trapped inside an Iron Maiden or stretched and twisted on a torturer's rack or forced to eat live cockroaches to survive in a penal colony -- well, probably some kind of intensive therapy would be in order. Failing that, however, you can satisfy your curiosity via this series, wherein clever craftsmen from Ohio's haunted-house prop house The Scarefactory re-create (nonlethally) some of history's most harrowing devices.