The 2,700 residents of Chambon-sur-Lignon in south-central France are proud of their tradition of taking in refugees from everywhere. It began in the 16th century, when converted Protestants came to the village to escape...

The industrial metropolis of Glasgow, Scotland, ha...  ...e is the interior of the imposing Gothic Gartloch Asylum .Unnerving as it may have been in its heyday, Gart...  ...mained eerily empty.See many more pictures of the asylum and nine other sad and majestic abandoned facilit...

The Eloise complex in Westland, Michigan, near Detroit, was established in 1839 as a poorhouse. In its heyday, Eloise Hospital was a psychiatric institution covering 902 acres with 70 buildings. It has its own police and...

Ellis Island is famous for welcoming immigrants to...  ...utions. Their plan was to create a “city of asylums .” In part this was a desire to create more...  ...ions opened up—a penitentiary and a lunatic asylum . While the island was eventually home to more tha...  ...about the prison scandals...

Villa Sbertoli was built in Tuscany in the 1800s by Italian businessman Augustine Sbertoli. One version of the story is that his son went insane, but another says he merely had a physical disability. Either way, in 1868...

The word “bedlam” means chaos to moder...  ...dern ears, and that meaning came from the British asylum known as Bedlam, short for Bethlehem Royal Hospit...  ...he mentally ill. Over the next few centuries, the asylum changed hands, changed management, and even chang...

Listed here are some of the reasons you could have...  ...e gotten committed to the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia in the late 19th-century. If the...  ...f how difficult it was back then to get OUT of an asylum . Found at Dangerous Minds.

The compound known as Villa Sbertoli in Pistoia, I...  ...as a creepy history. It was a home turned into an asylum by Professor Augustine Sbertoli in 1868, then was...  ...ical prison under the Fascist government, then an asylum again. It was emptied over twenty years ago, and...

In this short video called Asylum , Drew Geraci and Andrew Breese of The V...  ...uls of those left behind. This is the Asylum . Opened in the early 1920s, the Asylum closed down and was abandoned decades...  ...opera...

Nellie Bly walked in to the office of a major news...  ...to feign insanity and get herself committed to an asylum in order to write about conditions in the institu...