Eerie photos show the interior of an abandoned asylum, which has featured in several seriously creepy films. Urban explorer Ben Stevens ventured to the long-deserted Medfield State Hospital, formerly ...

Asylums have long captivated historians and urban explorers, serving as haunting reminders of the problematic origins of mental health care. Much like cemeteries, these institutions were used to ...

Researching the history of the asylum can be a case of feast and famine, often at the same time. Some asylums left, if not mountains of records, then at least large hills. I mean that literally. An ...

My first encounter with the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum was through what it forgot to take with it: Columbia’s Buell Hall. Whenever I had previously passed the building’s bright red bricks and ...

UMMC says there could be as many as 7000 burial sites of patients at the Mississippi Asylum for the Insane, which from 1855 to 1935 stood on what's now UMMC campus. If you purchase a product or ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- Dare to roam Waikiki Trolley’s new Halloween experience Trial of Fears where guests who enter Dr. Delirio’s Insane Asylum can meet all the monstrous orderlies who reside ...

"Begun as a pork-barrel project by the federal government in the early 1900s, the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians quickly became a dumping ground for inconvenient Indians. The federal institution in ...