spent the last few years exploring nearly 30 former asylums throughout the United States. Here, he shared a few photos with us from his upcoming book Abandoned Asylums, which comes out November 15.

Haunting photos of abandoned asylums across the U.S. have been published in a new book. Canadian photographer Matt Van Der Velde captured the eerie scenes of America's disused hospitals, asylums and ...

Since 2005, Jeremy Harris has visited abandoned mental asylum and hospitals in a quest to preserve them. Abandoned buildings are creepy. Abandoned asylums, downright terrifying. They’re the ...

Location: Weston, West Virginia One of the most popular abandoned asylums to visit in the United States—also known as the ...

While all types of structures get abandoned and eventually forgotten, there's something particularly eerie about a derelict hospital, asylum or sanatorium; whether it's the sordid past ...

It was one of the longest continually running hospitals in the USA until its closure ... perhaps as a result of damp. The asylum provided a balance of work and recreation, with patients growing ...

Visitors claim to see their apparitions wandering the corridors and hear mischievous whispers in abandoned ... Lunatic Asylum is the largest hand-cut stone masonry building in North America ...

Abandoned hospitals and asylums are some of the most well-worn ... The film was suppressed by the United States government for thirty years before it was finally screened at Cannes Film Festival ...

Before their history could be erased, Canadian photographer Matt van der Velde sought to document North America’s abandoned asylums with the vision of illustrating the dramatic societal changes ...