11 Abandoned Hospitals And Asylums Guaranteed To Give You Chills

4. Hart Island, New York: The Island of Lost Souls

Located in Long Island Sound, Hart Island serves as New York City's public cemetery, or potter's field, holding over a million unclaimed or unidentified bodies. Throughout its history, it also housed various institutions, including a Civil War prison camp, a psychiatric hospital, a tuberculosis sanatorium, and a boys' reformatory. While still used for burials performed by inmates from Rikers Island, the island's former institutional buildings are abandoned and decaying. Access is highly restricted, adding to its mystery. Hart Island is a profoundly somber place, representing layers of the city's forgotten history and the final resting place for generations of its marginalized residents.