Eeriest abandoned hospitals around the world

Nov15,2023

Completed in 1892, the L-shaped building was originally constructed as quarters for the medical staff of the Government Civil Hospital. 

Old Mental Hospital

The first public health hospital in the nation’s capital—the Washington Infirmary—was founded in 1806 as a place to care for the city’s “poor, disabled and infirm persons.”

District of Columbia General Hospital

One of the most popular abandoned asylums to visit in the United States, the West Virginia Hospital for the Insane—the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum was constructed between 1858 and 1881. 

Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum

Built between 1844 and 1848, the North Wales Hospital opened as a facility for Welsh-speaking people living with mental illness

North Wales Hospital

Poveglia has a reputation for being one of the most haunted places in Europe, making it a frequent stop for paranormal investigators.

Poveglia Island

On the south side of Ellis Island—across from the main building containing the Great Hall and what’s now an immigration museum—a hospital sat empty for more than 60 years

Ellis Island Hospital Complex

The complex was built in 1898, in a forest about 30 miles outside the growing metropolis of Berlin, to treat city residents with tuberculosis. 

Beelitz Heilstatten

Construction of the medical facility, aka “the Umbrella,” began in 1980 but encountered a variety of problems, causing a five-year stall in progress.

Khovrino Hospital Complex

Known pointedly as Morisset Hospital for the Insane when it opened in 1909, the asylum was an industrial farm colony and a closed community for men living with mental illness.

Morisset Hospital