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Hospitals

Interior of the hospital courtyard.

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Old Colombo Dutch Hospital

This popular shopping mall and eatery once provided scant comfort to sick colonials and seafarers

Berlin, Germany

The Swallowed Urn

Where a hospital garden hides a haunting reminder of life’s cycle.

Calgary, Alberta

Rundle Ruins

A popular photo spot showcasing the remains of a historic building.

Bethlem Royal Hospital, also known as "Bedlam," charged visitors a penny to explore the wards.

The Undercover Woman Who Changed Asylum Tourism Forever

Visitors were drawn to mental institutions out of curiosity and compassion, but they weren’t seeing the full picture—until Nellie Bly revealed it.

Sarah Gleim March 14, 2025

Taunton, Massachusetts

Taunton State Hospital

This historic psychiatric hospital is haunted by its chilling past.

Lochgilphead, Scotland

Argyll and Bute Hospital

This ruins of an abandoned Victorian-era mental health facility.

Ghajnsielem, Malta

Isolation Hospital

This abandoned building, which is the second-largest structure on the Maltese island of Comino, has a complicated past.

Sesimbra, Portugal

Chapel of Espírito Santo dos Mareantes

Ghostly ship drawings grace the walls of this medieval hospital.

Woodruff, Wisconsin

The World's Largest Penny

In 1953, a group of Wisconsin high school students helped build a hospital by collecting over a million pennies.

John Horne has uncovered the stories of numerous people buried in Nothern State Mental Hospital's cemetery, including this grave belonging to Jessie Comer, a 34-year-old housewife who died of uterine cancer in 1914.

One Man’s Fight To Save a Mental Hospital's Forgotten Cemetery

John Horne is determined to preserve the stories of those who were left behind.

Bess Lovejoy February 1, 2024

Boston, Massachusetts

FAO Schwarz Teddy Bear Sculpture

A gift to the children of Boston, this bronze bear represents playfulness, a spirit of love, and the warmth of big hugs.

Soutra Aisle

The ruins of a world-renowned medieval hospital.

Cape Town, South Africa

Heart of Cape Town Museum

The first successful human heart transplant is depicted through wax figures at the hospital where it the surgery took place.

Lava Hot Springs, Idaho

Lava Hot Springs Inn

A former sanitarium where soldiers were sent to recover in the healing waters of hot springs.

A cannon sits on a wet wooden platform overlooking trees

Aldershot, England

Redan Hill Fortifications

In the mid-1800s, the British military used this hilltop fort to train soldiers.

A large stone 3 and 2-story building with arched windows

Weiler Building

A former military hospital is now used to study and preserve artifacts of the Acropolis.

Oranienburg, Germany

Heilstätte Grabowsee

This abandoned hospital has a long history, having housed both German and Soviet soldiers in the course of its life.

Podcast: Okomfo Anokye's Sword

In a courtyard in Kumasi, Ghana, you’ll find a sword planted in the ground more than 300 years ago.

The Podcast Team May 3, 2023