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Monticello, Iowa

Edinburgh Manor

Spend the night in this former asylum for the incurably insane, which claims to be one of the most haunted places in the United States.
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.
cemeteries

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
Worcester, Massachusetts

Sigmund Freud Statue

This statue is a commemoration of the only place where Freud spoke in the United States.
museums

Podcast: Freud Museum London

Lie back on what might be the world's most famous psychoanalytic couch.
The Podcast Team February 1, 2023
Beechworth, Australia

Beechworth Asylum

This former psychiatric hospital was once one of the largest in Australia.
The Weston State Hospital, once (and again) known as the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum.
abandoned

A Cultural Historian Explores an Old Mental Hospital, and Why They Scare Us

They are haunted, but not by ghosts.
Troy Rondinone October 31, 2019
Wanderlust seems desirable today, but it was once considered a disease.
hospitals

When Doctors Thought ‘Wanderlust’ Was a Psychological Condition

For decades, "pathological tourists" ended up in asylums or worse.
Sabrina Imbler April 15, 2019
The primary tunnel.
Traverse City, Michigan

Tunnels of Traverse City State Hospital

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.
Z Ward.
Glenside, Australia

Z Ward

A perfectly preserved abandoned criminal asylum in South Australia.
A hydrotherapy tub in St. Albans Sanatorium.
Radford, Virginia

St. Albans Sanatorium

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.
Images of the Unconscious Museum.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Images of the Unconscious Museum

An overlooked collection of over 350,000 artistic works created by psychiatric patients using art therapy.
Permanently Closed
The abandoned London Psychiatric Hospital.
London, Ontario

London Psychiatric Hospital

Clusters of abandoned buildings hint at the facility's 144-year history with psychiatric health.
Detail from Bronzino's murals in the Basilica di Santa Croce.
art

How Great Art Can Make You a Little Crazy

Braving the long lines to see the last Leonardo in private hands.
Natasha Frost November 14, 2017
An abandoned building once used by the Säter psychiatric hospital.
Säter, Sweden

Säter Museum of Mental Health

A museum dedicated to the history of psychiatric treatment featuring a gallery of art made by patients.
haunted

The Complex Ethics of a Haunted House Starring Psychiatric Patients

A Halloween attraction at a Utah mental-health hospital perpetuated stigmas but benefited residents.
Jake Smith October 16, 2017
A wheelchair in the abandoned building
Glen Gardner, New Jersey

Abandoned Hagedorn Psychiatric Hospital

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.
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.
Milledgeville, Georgia

Central State Hospital

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.