... throughout Worcester and the New England area. We hope that you will continue to enjoy the beautiful music made by the Worcester State College Chorale.

America's Best Colleges, Graduate Schools, High Schools, Hospitals, Health Plans, Cars and Trucks, Places to Retire, Leaders, and Businesses listed all in one place.

Pictures and history of 19th century insane asylums built according to a plan conceived by Dr. Thomas Story Kirkbride, a physician who believed good architecture could help cure mental illness.

Photographs of abandoned buildings, hospitals, asylums, industry, amusement parks, theaters and other urban ruins, accompanied with accounts of urban exploration. Many of the derelict places are abandoned hospitals that once served as "asylums for the insane" at the turn of the 20th century.