In the mid- to late 1800s, insane asylums served as catch-all ... in August 1867 and was committed to Taunton State Hospital, a lunatic asylum in Massachusetts. After that, little is known ...

Medfield State Hospital, built in the 1880s and closed more than 20 years ago, is a little creepy but also pleasantly calm as one walks around the abandoned campus.

Payne got access to the hospitals by submitting formal requests to state mental-health departments. "Once a few states granted access, all the others followed suit," Payne told Business Insider.

Moving the facility, the resolution said, could improve mental health services ... at 1300 East Center Street, the hospital began as the Territorial Insane Asylum in 1885. The role of the facility ...