Castle Hill, New Zealand
Castle Hill
The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."
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Castle Hill, New Zealand
The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."
Schwangau, Germany
The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”
Costești, Romania
Once the legendary capital of the Dacian Kingdom, this city has been reduced to mere ruins.
Barcelona, Spain
The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.
Kharkiv, Ukraine
It's the only museum of its kind in Ukraine.
Beočin, Serbia
A beautiful 19th-century mansion slowly crumbled and became a 'ghost house' after World War II.
Boyds, Maryland
This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.
Buffalo, New York
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.
Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti, Georgia
Fortified homes of highland warriors that are still in use today.
Georgia
Legend says these stone structures are where the doomed citizens of a vanished village sent themselves to die.
Dargavs, Russia
This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.
Wingdale, New York
An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.
Newtown, Connecticut
This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.
Staunton, Virginia
A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.
Milledgeville, Georgia
One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.
Washington, D.C.
Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.
Anoka, Minnesota
For over a century, it was a crucial center of mental health treatment and also the source of many local legends.
Radford, Virginia
Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.
Franklin, Québec
This abandoned orphanage-turned-asylum witnessed a terrible chapter in Québec's history.
Valongo, Portugal
An abandoned tuberculosis hospital said to be haunted by the patients who died within its walls.
Danvers, Massachusetts
The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.
St. Joseph, Missouri
The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.
Medfield, Massachusetts
Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.
Maidstone, England
This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.