Abandoned asylum corridors
The great institutions and their surviving corridors — a century of confinement and its residue. Open the world map to see them plotted.
Fann Psychiatric Clinic — The Ghost in the Halls
B · Dakar, Senegal — West Africa's first psychiatric hospital (1956), where an American anthropologist's fieldwork recorded the clinic's own ghost — said to roam the halls — the deaths of young doctors attributed to witch…
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.…
Pennhurst — Suffer the Little Children
A · Spring City, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States — The institution a 1968 television exposé turned into a national scandal — decades of documented neglect ended by a landmark civil-rights ruling, its campus now split between a memorial archive and a h…
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
A · Weston, WV, United States — A Gothic asylum built for 250 patients that held 2,400. The ghost of a little girl named Lily is its most famous resident.…
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.…
Willow Court — Australia's Oldest Asylum Precinct
A · New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia — A brick precinct by the Derwent where institutional care began in 1827 and did not end until 2000 — 173 years of Australia's asylum history in one site, whose abandoned wards now carry the country's d…