One of the most popular abandoned asylums to visit in the United States—also known as the Weston State Hospital and, ominously, the West Virginia Hospital for the Insane—the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic ...

(CNN) — Steve Roberts isn’t sure he believes in ghosts. But without them, he can’t really explain what happened several months ago at Pennsylvania’s infamous Pennhurst Asylum. In May, he joined a ...

Growing up as a boy in northern New Jersey, my first encounter with psychiatry was driving with my grandparents past a large, imposing hospital complex in Essex County called Overbrook. Built in a ...

A long-lost iron mine. A once-grand dame showplace for major entertainers. A lost subway. The great, sometimes creepy, abandoned places in Upstate New York offer a unique vision into the backstory of ...

Saying goodbye to summer and hello to fall isn't so bad. Especially when the festivities of the season begin like pumpkin and apple picking, or seeking out those thrills and chills events. In New ...

"There was this large glass atrium in there and somebody had spray-painted on the wall, ‘What if we kissed in the lobby?’ And I read it off the wall and turned around and he was ready" Susan Young is ...