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The remains of a 19th-century lead smelter in Grinton, England.
science

Europe's Lead Pollution Dropped to Zero Only Once in 2,000 Years

And it took nothing less than the Black Death.
Kelsey Kennedy June 1, 2017
Plaza Güemes in Buenos Aires, sometimes known as Plaza Freud or Guadalupe.
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Villa Freud

A pocket of Buenos Aires with an unusually high concentration of psychotherapists.
Entrance to one of the buildings
New York, New York

Cherokee Apartments

This Upper East Side apartment co-op was designed as a tuberculosis sanitarium.
Mechanical Camel, invented by J. H. Kellogg
Battle Creek, Michigan

Dr. J.H. Kellogg Discovery Center

The unusual medical inventions of the man who gave the world Corn Flakes.
The bathhouse on the Suwanee River.
White Springs, Florida

White Sulfur Springs Ruins

The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.
Exterior of the house.
Waldorf, Maryland

Dr. Samuel Mudd House Museum

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.
A tuberculosis hut converted into a visitor center at Rock Ledge Ranch
Colorado Springs, Colorado

Tuberculosis Huts

Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.
A bell depicting the Italians young Nicholas Green helped through the donation.
Bodega Bay, California

Children's Bell Tower

A poignant memorial to a young boy whose death spurred a dramatic increase in organ donations in Italy—dubbed the "Nicholas Effect."
Druzhba health spa.
Yalta, Crimea

Druzhba

This space age health spa looks like a supervillain's lair.
The lighter-compact combo designed to entice women to switch to Chelsea.
objects of intrigue

The Failed Attempt to Market Sweet-Smelling Cigarettes to Women

Chelsea burned brightly for a few months in 1989.
Ella Morton November 22, 2016
The lithia water fountain.
Ashland, Oregon

Lithia Water Fountain

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.
Entrance to the Wellington Administrative Building, now abandoned.
London, Ontario

Abandoned Veterans Village at Westminster Ponds

The ruins of a rehabilitation center for World War II vets can be found in the Westminster Ponds Conservation area.
Sometimes, patients would dip the sharp needles into the oil.
objects of intrigue

The 1800s Medical Device That Promised Cures by Repeatedly Stabbing Patients

The Life Awakener contraption gave patients "healing" pustules.
Lauren Young October 18, 2016
art

The Mystery of Van Gogh's Final Breakdown Will Probably Never Be Solved

Though we now think it was some kind of repeated "psychosis."
Erik Shilling September 16, 2016
Permanently Closed
Vulva door Frame
Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health

A safe space and resource for anything and everything relating to sex and sexuality.
Little White House
Warm Springs, Georgia

Roosevelt’s Little White House

FDR hoped to find a cure for polio in this Georgia town's warm springs.
boats

A Survey of the Most Ridiculous Anti-Drowning Devices of the 1800s

Victorian life preservers invited both drowning and mockery.
Natalie Zarrelli August 4, 2016
Satellite view of the closed down W.R. Grace Mine
Libby, Montana

Asbestos Town — Libby, Montana

Mining caused an asbestos emergency in this small town.