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St. John's Episcopal Church
41.3958, -79.8289
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Giant Squid Museum
43.5410, -6.5389
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The Old Limestone Arch
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Groton, Massachusetts
Bancroft Castle
On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.
Milledgeville, Georgia
Central State Hospital
One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.
Permanently Closed
Staunton, Virginia
Abandoned DeJarnette Sanitarium
A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Tuberculosis Huts
Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.
Permanently Closed
Newtown, Connecticut
Fairfield Hills Hospital
This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.
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An Alarm Designer on How to Annoy People in the Most Effective Ways
There's an art and science to making one sound seem more urgent than another.
TrĂ¢n ChĂ¢u, Vietnam
Hospital Cave
This cavern was used as a hidden hospital and safe house during the Vietnam War.
Buxton, England
The Devonshire Dome
Once the largest unsupported dome in the world, beating out the Pantheon and St Peters in Rome.
Permanently Closed
Berlin, Germany
Weissensee Abandoned Children's Hospital
A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.
Permanently Closed
Ovid, New York
Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane
An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.
Verona, Wisconsin
Epic Campus
Software company Epic Systems has created one of the strangest and largest workplaces of all time.
Permanently Closed
London, England
Royal London Hospital Museum
This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.
Angeles, Philippines
Clark Air Base Hospital
The remains of an abandoned air force hospital located on a redeveloped Air Force base.
Permanently Closed
Bartonville, Illinois
Peoria State Hospital
Once known as the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane.
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The patient never knows what odors come from inside.
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A sleepover with radioactive cats and malady-riddled French bulldogs.
Lisbon, Portugal
Hospital de Bonecas
Catering to broken dolls for almost 200 years, this repair shop is now a charnel house of doll parts.
Zagreb, Croatia
Brestovac Sanatorium
Once a state-of-the-art tuberculosis treatment spa, these ruins are now ruled by paintball players.
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