(I confess I felt a lot like John Waters in the 1980s, when he attended – for research purposes, and alone – a Saturday-morning screening of The Care Bears Movie during the notorious McMartin pre-school devil-worship and child-abuse trial).
The old collection of buildings that made up the original concentration camp was not big enough to house all those caught in mass arrests, so inmates were forced to work 12- to 15-hour days to construct a new camp next door that would become notorious as the Nazis' biggest death camp.
The house, known as Fortress Fitt after security grills and an entry phone system were installed, was in an area of north Belfast patchworked with Protestant and Catholic enclaves, and notorious for the highest number of sectarian attacks in the province.
Fresnes is of the same vintage as La Santé and boasts a similar roll-call of notorious ex-cons.
And while local people along the route fear for their links, these counties have also seen some of the most notorious incidents at level crossings – at Elsenham in Essex and Beccles in Suffolk.
Most notorious of all was Cannibal Holocaust's depiction of the slaughter of wild animals.
In 2010, notwithstanding the notorious note left by the retiring chief secretary to the Treasury, we were not broke.
Over 30 years he became notorious within the prison system as a trouble maker, with the parole board ultimately declaring him a "fully paid up member of the awkward squad".
Today, two years after the death of the notorious dictator, the house, which he used as an office, is opening as a visitor attraction.
Australia is notorious in Britain for its startling variety of causes of death, thanks to its violent wildlife and the dangerous heat of its empty desert roads.
The notorious "Bedlam" was founded in the middle ages and may have specialised in mental illness as early as the 14th century.
