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While New York City has its fair share of abandoned hospitals and asylums, the regions surrounding the city contain even more, seemingly left to be forgotten. NYC is no stranger to abandoned sites ...

Originally known (ominously) as the Medfield Insane Asylum for the Chronic Insane ... making it one of the few abandoned places in New York City you can still visit. In the early 1850s, a German ...

Haunting images show asylums, prisons and schools ... Mr Barter said: 'We visited five states and several major cities, from New York City to Pittsburgh. It got pretty wild at times, so much ...

Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane in Ovid, New York, is one of the creepiest abandoned hospitals in the country. The state-run hospital was opened by New York's Surgeon General Dr. Sylvester D.

Outside Wichita Falls, there’s an old building famous for ghost stories. It's called the White Sanitarium, but the locals ...

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In the mid- to late 1800s, insane asylums served as catch-all facilities ... was the matter with her head,” in the words of The New York Times. Meanwhile, the Daily Alta California newspaper ...

One report form a New York State hospital reads as follows ... the stigma of court commitment and incarceration in an "insane asylum." The first of these was opened last November at Youngstown ...

An urban explorer has captured the inside of an abandoned ... converted into a new village called St. Margarets. The morgue was mega sealed so we only saw a small part of the asylum.

The Texas Tribune and The Associated Press visited five locations along the 1,254-mile span to separate the facts from the ...