Abandoned Anthrax: Vozrozhdeniye Island
The Aral Sea was known as “the Sea of Islands,” and once upon a time this camp – now in the middle of the desert...
Abandoned: Old Reid Memorial Hospital
The original Reid Memorial Hospital in Richmond, Indiana, was built in 1905 and served the community for over one hundred years. During that time...
The Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic
Much less serious than the Dancing Plague was the Tanganyika laughter epidemic of 1962. On January 30th, three girls at a boarding school in...
The Story of Gennie Pilarski
Genevieve "Gennie" Pilarski quietly passed away in her nursing home room one September day in 1998 at the age of 79. Few noticed or...
Glenn Dale Hospital: Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Asbestos Asylum
Thirty minutes east of Washington D.C., a collection of brick buildings are deteriorating on a sixty-acre campus buried in a residential pocket of Glenn...
Hudson River State Hospital: Fourteen Decades of Mental Hygiene
Welcome to the Hudson River State Hospital, the first High Victorian Gothic institution built in the United States. Located in Poughkeepsie, New York, it...
