Hospitals

An unremarkable wooden wheel built into the side of one of Rome's oldest hospitals was part of a policy to reduce infant exposure.

This lovely tree was a thank you gift from the man known as "Public Enemy No.1."

When this former hospital pharmacy closed in 2013 it already looked like a museum, so they turned it into one.

This sprawling building built in 1890 was one of Minnesota’s earliest and largest mental health facilities.

Once the largest public hospital for the mentally ill was also surrounded by controversy.

An overgrown and abandoned tuberculosis ward resides in the midst of a quaint modern neighborhood.

This grand Georgian manor house was converted to serve as an isolation hospital before it was abandoned and destroyed.

This ship offers visitors the chance to spend the night aboard a former floating hospital for fishermen.

The crumbling remains of the first Black-owned and operated hospital in Kansas City.

The current seat of the Parliament of Andalusia was once the epicenter of the Great Plague of Seville.

This abandoned hospital village was once viewed as an innovative way to deal with mental illness.

A serene public space nestled within the remains of Glasgow’s Victorian maternity hospital

One doctor's retirement plan included opening this award-winning Mexican-Indian eatery on the ground floor of a hospital.

An abandoned tuberculosis hospital moulders on into an uncertain future.