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Louisville, Kentucky
Waverly Hills Sanatorium
This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.
abandoned
Diagnosis: Decrepit - Inside Creedmoor Psychiatric Center
Permanently Closed
Queens, New York
Creedmoor Psychiatric Center's Building 25
A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.
Permanently Closed
Staten Island, New York
The New York City Farm Colony
The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.
Permanently Closed
Bundoora, Australia
Larundel Mental Asylum
Dilapidated ruins that once treated a notorious young serial killer, currently hosting vandals, squatters, and ghost hunters.
abandoned hospitals
Realm of Wounded Soldiers: Abandoned Brooklyn Naval Hospital
Los Angeles, California
Linda Vista Hospital
A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.
Permanently Closed
Kings Park, New York
Abandoned Kings Park Psychiatric Center
Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.
Permanently Closed
Preston, Connecticut
Norwich State Hospital
Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.
Murcia, Spain
Sanatorio de Sierra Espuña
Haunted tuberculosis hospital built by the patients.
San MartĂn de la Virgen del Moncayo, Spain
Abandoned Agramonte del Moncayo Tuberculosis Sanatorium
The deserted remains of a luxury hotel turned hospital ward.
Volterra, Italy
Cimitero di San Finocchi
Abandoned cemetery of the former Psychiatric Hospital of Volterra.
Coquitlam, British Columbia
Riverview Hospital
Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.
Permanently Closed
Weyburn, Saskatchewan
Weyburn Mental Hospital
This notorious Canadian mental institution was home to some of the first LSD experiments and origin of the word "psychedelic."
New York, New York
Roosevelt Island Smallpox Hospital Ruins
A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.
Beelitz, Germany
Beelitz Heilstätten
Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.
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