A SINISTER abandoned asylum which has starred in several blockbuster films is set to receive a massive £22million make-over.

Asylum Street became a dead end when the highway went in. It is now sandwiched between a short highway ramp and Foley Engines ...

Li Ye, known for his comic timing, reinvents the role of Einstein as a jittery tech savant, while actor Wu Junda's Newton is ...

The long-deserted Medfield State Hospital makes for a haunting site, inspiring filmmakers for years with its dark, shadowy ...

Poveglia is a layered time capsule of tragedy. It was once a bustling community which was turned into a quarantine zone, then ...

The rule’s broad implications, he said, presage a socio-psychiatric revolution as sweeping as that of 1792. when Philippe Pinel struck the chains from the mentally ill in Paris asylums.

There were a lot of folks being admitted who had experienced syphilis. As I mentioned in the book, Scott Joplin, the legendary ragtime composer, was admitted to Manhattan State Hospital — the New York ...

Can you imagine thinking, "let's take this eerie, old, abandoned mental hospital and turn it into a brewery." Yes, there really is a former psychiatric hospital where the only therapy now is ...

Can you imagine thinking, "let's take this eerie, old, abandoned mental hospital and turn it into a brewery." If you're not familiar with it yet, or new to Fairfield County, there really is a former ...

About 50% of the inmates of U. S. insane asylums are there on account of a deteriorated mental-emotional condition variously called dementia praecox, schizophrenia or split personality. Therefore ...