Hospitals

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

This Queens hospital has stood abandoned for almost 20 years after its patients were secretly relocated in the dead of night.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.