Abandoned Insane Asylums

This hospital once pioneered the use of electroencephalograms, but fell into maltreatment, abuse, and eventual abandonment.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.

The decaying ruins of Wales' first asylum for the mentally ill.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

St. Mary's Asylum was isolated and abandoned before being converted into a Bed and Breakfast.

Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

This notorious Canadian mental institution was home to some of the first LSD experiments and origin of the word "psychedelic."