The Weston State Hospital also known as the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum

Check out more Vids from Abandoned Steve http://abandonedsteve.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/steveman0018?feature=watch The Weston State Hospital also known as the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. Opened in 1864. This Kirkbride psychiatric hospital is the largest hand cut stone masonry building in North America, second largest in the world. This building was part of the Kirkbride Plan which was designed by Thomas Kirkbride. The Kirkbride Plan was designed for Moral Treatment with long wings staggered from each other to provide plenty of sunlight and fresh air. All kirkbride architecture represented a Victorian style era with large tall entrances. In the 1900s, the krikbride plan of moral treatment became less used and it buildings were becoming expensive to maintain. A lot of them were left abandoned, most torn down but a lot still stand today. This Kirkbride was designed to hold 250 patients but by 1950, it had 2,600. It closed in 1994 b/c of changes in the treatment of mental illnesses and the building was falling apart. During the 19th century, the humans who were said to have mental illnesses would end up in these asylums. They were brought in by confinement cribs and had many treatments practice on them which were said to help release there poison. These treatments were known as shock therapy (patients were given insulin in a large dose that would put them in a coma for an hour. This treatment would be repeated many time sometime killing the individual since no guidelines were set on how much of a dose could be given), hydrotherapy (patients were placed in a tub suspended on a hammock and a sheet was cut out for their head to immobilize them and to prevent them from drowning), Bloodletting (It was said that the mentally insane has poisonousness blood and by removing it, they would be a normal human again. This was done by either leaches or incision to try and drain the blood. This would often leave patients exhausted and anemic. Sometimes transfusions were also attempted with some being animal blood.), and the most controversial method known as Lobotomy (This was performed on over 25,000 in the united states in by the mid 50s by severing the connections in the frontal love of the brain thus rending them docile). During the years of its abandonment, copper thieves went through and removed a lot of the wiring in the building. There was also a case were off duty police officers used the building for paint ball games which they were all caught and believed to be released from their duty. A preservation group bought the property for around 1.5 million dollars and today it uses public tours to try and make revenue to keep it history alive. Check out the website for find out more and get yourself in to tour this great place. http://www.trans-alleghenylunaticasyl

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INTO THE DARKNESS

Urban Explorers: Into The Darkness (full length movie)

ARM CHAIR EXPLORATION

One of my favorite thing about the net is, you can kick back and explore from the safety of your own home. Here are a few of my favorite exploration sites.

FORGOTTEN PENNSYLVANIA
Once again they go back and explore the ghost town Centralia. In case you've been locked up in a sanitarium for the past 45 years, Centralia a town in Pennsylvania
has had a underground coal fire burning since 1962.
Centralia, Ghost towns and a lot more

To learn more about Centralia CLICK HERE

ABANDONED BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
ABANDONED, HISTORICAL and UNUSUAL locations throughout various states and countries.

RULE EXPLORATION
Abandoned brewery, steel mills, hospital, Mall's and more.

ABANDONED AUSTRALIA
Photographs of abandoned buildings & cemeteries within Australia

PARIS SOUTERRAIN
Old quarries, catacombs, a giant sewer network, and Métro tunnels.

FROZEN CRYSTAL UNDERGROUND
Buildings, Utility, Tunnels, Drains, Caves and more

ACTION SQUAD MINNEAPOLIS URBAN ADVENTURERS
Underground, urban ruins and more

Save the best for last

FLOYED ANCIENT WONDERS
This site has some of the best pictures I have seen on a blog. Featuring post on Maya Ruins, King Tut Tomb and so much more. Don't forget to browse through his archives, its filled with all kinds of hidden treasures

ARMCHAIR EXPLORER

LOST AMERICA
ghost towns, urban exploration, decomissioned military, aircraft boneyards


THE BARTONVILLE INSANE ASYLUM
I spent many night's back in the 80's roaming the Bartonville hospital with friends.
PRAIRIEGHOST.COM
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CENTRALIA PENNSYLVANIA
Its population has dwindled from over 1,000 residents in 1981 to 9 in 2007 as a result of a 40-year-old mine fire burning beneath the borough. Centralia is now the least-populous municipality in Pennsylvania

CENTRALIA and its few remaining residents are the focus of Chris Perkel and Georgie Roland's 2007 feature-length documentary The Town That Was.

CENTRALIA is the inspiration to the Centralia a CD by the Canadian band Dream Quest

CENTRALIA is included in a short documentary on the Broken Saints DVD set.
Bill Bryson, in his humorous travel guide to the Appalachian Trail, A Walk in the Woods, describes a visit to the town.

Jennifer Finney Boylan's novel The Planets (written under the name James Boylan) and its sequel The Constellations are both set in Centralia.
The town seems to be the direct inspiration for the setting of Dean Koontz's short novel Strange Highways.

CENTRALIA is the inspiration for the 1991 cult film Nothing But Trouble, written by Dan Aykroyd.

CENTRALIA was the pre-production codename and a small influence for the movie adaptation of the game Silent Hill.[1]

The Squonk Opera wrote and performed a musical called Inferno, re-interpreting Dante Alighieri's Inferno as a trip into Centralia.

CENTRALIA is the hometown of the main character in "Dirty Blonde" by Lisa Scottoline.

CENTRALIA is documented in photographs and oral histories in "Slow Burn: A Photodocument of Centralia, Pennsylvania" by Renee Jacobs (University of Pennsylvania Press/1986)

In the 2003 book, Bubbles Ablaze, by Sarah Strohmeyer, Centralia is the inspiration for the fictional town of Limbo, Pennsylvania.

Information on the story of Centralia can also be found in Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran's book entitled Weird Pennsylvania.

The progressive metal band Car Bomb named their 2007 album after the town.

Links to CENTRALIA
OFFROAD.COM
CENTRALIA PA.COM
PA HIGHWAY.COM
FOGONAZOS.COM
CENTRALIA on
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AND ONE FOR THE ROAD " CHERNOBYL "

The city was evacuated in 1986 due to the disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, which is located 14.5 kilometers (9 miles) north-northwest. The power plant has been named after the city, and was located in Chernobyl Raion (district), but it was not the residence of power plant workers. At the time of power plant construction a twin city of the plant, Prypiat was built closer to the plant to be home for power plant workers.

Nowadays, even though the city is basically uninhabited, a few people still live there. The occupied houses are not so distinguishable from the rest, and there are signs on them stating that the "Owner of this house lives here". Also, workers on watch and administrative personnel of the Zone of Alienation are stationed in the city on term basis. Before the accident, the city was inhabited by about 14,000 residents.


After playing the vidio game S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Chernobyl, I had to throw in a few Chernobyl sites. Lots of good pictures!
ENGLISHRUSSA.COM
IAEA.ORG
CHERNOBYL.COM
PIXELPRESS.COM

ABANDONED AMUSEMENT PARK

Anybody know the name of the park ??

ABANDONED BUILDINGS

Not all who wander are lost --J. R. R. Tolkien


















ABANDOND PLACES
Abandoned Photos of abandoned plants, unfinished buildings, and industrial sites in Russia.
http://www.abandoned-places.com/

ABANDONED PLACES
abandoned places Photo exploration of buildings throughout Europe that have been left behind.
http://www.abandoned.ru/

INFILTRATION
Abandoned buildings are very popular sites for infiltration -- it seems silly to allow buildings so wonderful to simply sit empty. What constitutes an abandoned site? ... Abandoned sites go beyond abandoned buildings, though: abandoned missile silos, abandoned subway. Go to the bottom of the page to view the pictures
http://www.infiltration.org/abandon.htm

GRAVE ADDICTION
Grave Addiction abandoned buildings page ... Abandoned Building Photos. Baughman Park - Frazeysburg, Ohio ... Select... Home Cemeteries Haunted Places Abandoned Buildings Mothman Historical Parks Museums Ouija Stories Ghost
http://www.graveaddiction.com/abindex.html

99 ROOMS
Allows users to walk through a virtual building and see the sights and hear the sounds of a dilapidated structure.
http://www.99rooms.com/

THE HOSPITAL
Immersive multimedia and pictorial Flash journey through an abandoned hospital building.
http://hospital.apoka.com/

ABANDONED BUILDINGS


DARK PASSAGES
A New York based organization providing blind archaeologists with the finest high quality flashlights.
http://www.darkpassage.com/

SLEEP CITY
Urban exploration photos from Australian states and the city of Brisbane
http://sleepycity.net/

SUBTERRANEA BRITANNICA
Devoted to the study and investigation of man-made and man-used underground places
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/

LOST DESTINATIONS
Abandoned, unusual, wild, and weird road trip photography from throughout the USA.
http://www.lostdestinations.com/

ABANDONED MISSILE BASE TOUR
Takes the viewer on a full tour of a decommissioned, abandoned, underground missile complex.
http://triggur.org/silo/

OPACITY
Photographs of abandoned buildings and structures on the east coast of the USA.
http://www.opacity.us/


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