Researching the history of the asylum can be a case of feast and famine, often at the same time. Some asylums left, if not mountains of records, then at least large hills. I mean that literally. An ...

PETERSBURG, Va. (AP) — When the American Psychiatric Association celebrated its 175th anniversary three years ago in San Francisco, it featured photographs of two Virginia mental institutions that ...

The UB Art Galleries is calling on the Buffalo community to help preserve the stories of women who were once patients at the former Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane, now the site of the historic ...

Eerie photos show the interior of an abandoned asylum, which has featured in several seriously creepy films. Urban explorer Ben Stevens ventured to the long-deserted Medfield State Hospital, formerly ...