Tourists flock to former mental institutions for macabre sightseeing outings, especially around Halloween, joining paranormal investigations and other tours.

A documentary on Old Main, the Greek revival building originally known as the New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica in West Utica, is now showing on Amazon, Apple TV and Google Play/You Tube for ...

Mental illness is by no means a recent phenomenon in human civilization. It has likely persisted among our species since the beginning. While the modern era has ushered in a more enlightened approach ...

President Donald Trump has said he would be open to bringing back "insane asylums" to imprison people with "serious mental illness". In an interview with the Daily Caller published on Monday, the ...

"This book is published in partnership with Wellcome Collection for the exhibition 'Bedlam: the asylum and beyond', curated by Mike Jay and Bárbara Rodriguez Mun̋oz, held at Wellcome Collection, ...

Condemned as evil, mental hospitals closed, leading to fragmented system. Dec. 20, 2012— -- It took filmmaker Lucy Winer several decades to come to terms with having been locked up in a mental ...

One of the charming, if bizarre, discoveries I made living in New England was its constellation of splendid, thoroughly abandoned mental institutions. They occupied commanding heights in bucolic rural ...

Virginia Allen is a senior news producer for The Daily Signal and host of "The Daily Signal Podcast" and "Problematic Women." Send an email to Virginia. President Donald Trump says he is open to the ...

Monster: The Ed Gein Story on Netflix is set in 1950s Wisconsin, revolving around the story of the real-life infamous killer Ed Gein. He was known as the “Butcher of Plainfield” and the “Plainfield ...