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This abandoned asylum in Wales might look haunted, but it's still beautiful.

Created by four famous men, the beautifully designed Buffalo State Asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center, but still boasts a ghost story or two.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

A formerly abandoned mental institute, now back in business.

This hospital once pioneered the use of electroencephalograms, but fell into maltreatment, abuse, and eventual abandonment.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

Once known as the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

Elaborate series of tunnels where traces of mass suicide are still visible.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

A hidden network of subterranean passageways lies tangled beneath Indianapolis' bustling City Market.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

The first full-scale tunnel built in America is short but scenic.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.