Washington, D.C.
St. Elizabeths Hospital
Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.
Places cfielder94 Wants to Go
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Colunga, Spain
Jurassic Museum of Asturias
A wonderful collection of fossilized dinosaurs and other creatures that roamed the landscape millions of years ago.
Council Bluffs, Iowa
Pottawattamie Squirrel Cage Jail
The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.
Killarney, Ontario
Burwash Correctional Center
A long-abandoned provincial prison left to crumble in the frigid air of Ontario.
Buffalo, New York
The Darwin D. Martin House
One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.
Derby, New York
Graycliff House
This Frank Lloyd Wright summer house was designed along Lake Erie as a retreat for a client's wife.
Radford, Virginia
St. Albans Sanatorium
Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.
Athens, Ohio
Athens Lunatic Asylum
An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.
County Donegal, Ireland
St. Patrick's Purgatory
The world's toughest modern Christian pilgrimage leads directly to the gates of Hell.
Traverse City, Michigan
Traverse City State Hospital
Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.
Brentwood, New York
Pilgrim Psychiatric Center
A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.
Venice, Italy
San Servolo Insane Asylum Museum
Venice's "Island of the Mad."
Philippi, West Virginia
Mummies of Philippi
Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.
