Abandoned Insane Asylums

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

The abandoned hospital whose elaborate ghost stories cover up the dirty truth - an uneventful sanitation issue and other mundane reasons for its demise.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

This hospital fell into ruins after failing to act as the advocate for the mentally ill it was designed to be.

Dilapidated ruins that once treated a notorious young serial killer, currently hosting vandals, squatters, and ghost hunters.