These Abandoned Mental Asylums Are Creepy Yet Beautiful

An abandoned asylum in Spain

Mental asylums conjure up so much dread that we outlawed and dismantled the barbaric mental health facilities that were frequently more like a jail than hospital for their inmates. Already creepy before being abandoned, these buildings are now downright scary--yet still beautiful.

An entrance to abandoned asylum features grand staircase

An asylum's long hallway

Beds in an abandoned facility in Spain

An asylum's abandoned morgue

Bed in a Milan Italy asylum

Hallway collapses in abandoned asylum

Abandoned books in a closed facility

Uncollected luggage at an abandoned asylum

Hydrotherapy room in abandoned asylum