Abandoned Asylums & Sanatoriums
The great institutions and their surviving corridors — a century of confinement and its residue.
Waverly Hills Sanatorium
A · Louisville, KY, United States — The Louisville tuberculosis sanatorium where thousands died before antibiotics. Room 502 and the 'body chute' are staples of paranormal television.…
Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital — Korea's Demolished Web Legend
B · Gwangju, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea — Korea's most famous haunted ruin — the psychiatric hospital whose internet legend grew so large the city tore the buildings down in 2018; an empty slope now holds the address.…
Aradale Lunatic Asylum — Ararat
A · Ararat, Victoria, Australia — Australia's largest abandoned psychiatric hospital — a kilometer of wards that held 1,000 patients at its peak.…
Old Changi Hospital
A · Singapore, Singapore — A 1930s military hospital block on Singapore's eastern headland — served the RAF, then became a byword for wartime horror under Japanese occupation, and after 1997 stood empty long…
Hospital in the Rock
B · Buda Castle, Budapest, Hungary — A secret hospital carved into the natural caves under Buda Castle — siege hospital in 1944-45, field hospital again in 1956, then a top-secret nuclear bunker known only by its code…
Beechworth Asylum — Mayday Hills
A · Beechworth, Victoria, Australia — A 1,200-building asylum that held the desperate and the forgotten for 128 years, now running ghost tours four nights a week through its wards.…
Seacliff Lunatic Asylum — The Great Fire of 1942
B · Seacliff, Otago, New Zealand — Once the largest building in New Zealand, this vast gothic hospital lost 37 patients in a locked-ward fire in 1942 — and kept its ghosts through decades of institutional memory.…
Hospital Colônia de Barbacena — The Brazilian Holocáusto
A · Barbacena, Minas Gerais, Brazil — The psychiatric complex where some 60,000 people died between 1903 and the 1980s — most of them not mentally ill — now a museum; the last 14 patients left in 2026.…
Clark Air Base Hospital — The Ward That Never Closed
A · Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines — The gutted Cold War station hospital of America's largest overseas air base — emptied in a single week by a volcano, and celebrated across Asian paranormal TV as the most haunted b…
The Ridges — Athens Lunatic Asylum
A · Athens, Ohio, United States — The 1874 Kirkbride asylum above Ohio University — a self-sufficient city for the mentally ill whose empty wards, numbered cemetery markers, and one famous stain made it the anchor …
Danvers State Hospital — The Kirkbride on the Hill
A · Danvers, Massachusetts, United States — The 1878 Kirkbride asylum said to have inspired Lovecraft's Arkham and filmed for Session 9 — a Gothic hilltop complex where tens of thousands were confined, now half-demolished co…
Eloise — The Poorhouse City of Westland
B · Westland, Michigan, United States — A 902-acre complex that was once a city unto itself — poorhouse, asylum, tuberculosis sanatorium, 10,000 residents at its 1920s peak — now reduced to a few buildings and a fenced f…
Zofiówka Sanatorium — The Hospital Murdered With Its Patients
B · Otwock, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland — The interwar Jewish psychiatric hospital in the pine-air resort town of Otwock — a progressive colony of villas emptied in a single night of murder in August 1942, left to decay fo…
CAC Quito — The Girl in the Old Military Hospital
A · Quito, Ecuador — Quito's Contemporary Art Centre — a 1913 building that served as sanatorium, barracks and army hospital before reopening as a museum in 2013 — where the night guards' reports of do…
San Haven Sanatorium — North Dakota's Curing Institution
B · Dunseith, North Dakota, United States — A 1909 tuberculosis sanatorium on the Turtle Mountains, abandoned in 1987 and demolished in 2015-16 — its decades of ruination made it the state's premier abandoned-place legend be…
Xinglin Hospital — The Hospital That Waited
A · Tainan, Taiwan — A private hospital opened in 1975 on Tainan's Ximen Road, abandoned since 1993 in a lawsuit frozen mid-word — gurneys left in corridors, prescriptions still pinned to desks — becam…
Denbigh — The North Wales Hospital
B · Denbigh, Denbighshire, Wales — Wales's first psychiatric hospital — a vast 1848 hilltop complex outside Denbigh, closed in 1995 after 147 years and left to decay into the country's premier haunted ruin: corridor…