Hospitals
Beelitz-Heilstätten: the sanatorium the forest took back
Tuberculosis wards built for fresh air and light, now open to nothing but the weather.
Category · Sanatoriums & asylums
Abandoned Hospitals
Sanatoriums, asylums and hospitals. Buildings designed to heal, then closed, then left — often the most haunting rooms in any archive.
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The entries
Hospitals in the archive
Each entry covers the history, the present condition, and the ethics of visiting a place that is often both private property and public heritage.
Hospitals
Broomhill Hospital: a derelict hospital in the Scottish hills
A hilltop hospital, emptied when its patients moved on, and left to the Scottish weather.
Hospitals
Aradale: inside Australia's largest abandoned asylum
For 130 years it took in the people Victoria could not, or would not, keep. Then it closed, and the corridors went quiet.
Hospitals
Denbigh: the Welsh asylum left to the elements
A Gothic hospital built to hold a thousand minds, now open to the sky and the ivy.
