At the end of the 19th century, a government institution known as the Canton Indian Asylum was created to treat Native Americans suffering from mental illness. Instead, it quickly became a place of ...

New drone footage reveals the extent of damage to a long-abandoned town centre building following a huge fire.

Hidden on Roosevelt Island sits a Gothic hospital ruin so hauntingly beautiful and historically dark that it makes you ...

Explore the haunting legacy of Central State Hospital in Milledgeville Georgia where abandoned buildings and chilling history ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A metal detector hobbyist discovered a centuries’ old coin while ...

Whether it's truly better to be lucky than good, it's undeniably best to be both whenever possible. The S & P 500's bumpy path to a 1.3% gain in the year's first five weeks surely shows impressive ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. New Jersey beachgoers could be forgiven for mistaking a pile of ...

After Napoleon’s Egypt campaign, the European bourgeoisie became fascinated by pyramids, hieroglyphs and mummies. The latter were shipped to Europe by the thousands, despite laws prohibiting the trade ...

As the world learned how to deal with mental illnesses in the late 19th century, hospitals were established where those with the worst cases could be sent to be treated. The problem was that doctors ...

When I first visited Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art not long after it opened in 2011, I arrived prepared to be unconvinced. The circumstances encouraged it. A major new American art museum, ...

During the Victorian era, mental asylums had a reputation of treating patients with inhumane methods. However, a West Sussex mental health hospital, built in the late 19th Century, was a pioneering ...