Abandoned Insane Asylums

Originally known as the State Lunatic Hospital at Norristown, this campus stands as a fascinating piece of medical history.

An abandoned Jewish sanatorium is tucked within the woods of Poland.

An abandoned tuberculosis hospital said to be haunted by the patients who died within its walls.

This abandoned orphanage-turned-asylum witnessed a terrible chapter in Québec's history.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

Clusters of abandoned buildings hint at the facility's 144-year history with psychiatric health.

For over a century, it was a crucial center of mental health treatment and also the source of many local legends.

Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

Created by four famous men, the beautifully designed Buffalo State Asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center, but still boasts a ghost story or two.

This abandoned asylum in Wales might look haunted, but it's still beautiful.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.