Gainesville, Florida
Historic Haile Homestead
Over 12,500 words are scrawled across each room of this historic plantation house and no one knows why.
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Gainesville, Florida
Over 12,500 words are scrawled across each room of this historic plantation house and no one knows why.
Opa-locka, Florida
America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.
Kissimmee, Florida
Would you like a sleeper hold with that?
Weeki Wachee, Florida
Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.
Staten Island, New York
The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.
Waltham, Massachusetts
Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.
Bronx, New York
The loneliest island in New York.
Coquitlam, British Columbia
Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.
Weston, West Virginia
A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.
Denbigh, Wales
The decaying ruins of Wales' first asylum for the mentally ill.
Queens, New York
A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.
Volterra, Italy
This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.
Laurel, Maryland
This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.
Thiells, New York
Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.
Medfield, Massachusetts
Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.
Glendale, California
Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.
Ruthin, Wales
This abandoned asylum in Wales might look haunted, but it's still beautiful.
Wingdale, New York
An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.
Gwangju-si, South Korea
The abandoned hospital whose elaborate ghost stories cover up the dirty truth - an uneventful sanitation issue and other mundane reasons for its demise.
Beacon, New York
The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.
Ovid, New York
An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.
Hřensko, Czechia
Europe's largest natural bridge has a 19th century royal chateau built into its side.
Washington, D.C.
Need a hardcopy of the 50-title Code of Federal Regulations? This is the place.
Aughton, England
The town of Argleton has a postal code and appears on maps and even real estate listings, yet it does not exist.