Where You Came to Die | M.P. Pellicer

In the far reaches of the largest fjord in Norway, perched on the side of a mountain is a 16,000 square foot castle overlooking the town of Luster. For all its fairytale appearance, when it operated as the Lyster Sanatorium, this was the place where many came to die.

The sanitarium was constructed in 1902, to be used as a hospital for terminally ill tuberculosis (TB) patients. The location was chosen due to the risk of contamination posed by the tuberculosis bacterium. The sanatorium was build to hold about 120 patients, and there was an average 2 patients for every employee, who also lived on the premises. The patients were isolated from the outside world, and moved to the mountain because it was believed the fresh, crisp air would lessen their symptoms.

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The Crazy House Up on the Hill | M.P. Pellicer

The cemetery is located off a dirt road on a wooded hillside. The grounds are overgrown, which seems to be the case even when the hospital was active. The cracked identical stones are marked only with an "M" or an "F", and a number. These numbers range through the hundreds to four full digits. These were the patients that died in the hospital that went unclaimed by their family.

Dixmont State Hospital, was founded in 1848 and began as the Insane Department of the Western Pennsylvania Hospital in Pittsburgh.

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The Forgotten Dead of Mississippi's First Insane Asylum | M.P. Pellicer

For years, as students walked about the campus of the University of Mississippi's Medical Centre they were unaware that they were only a few feet from the remains of as many as 7,000 patients who died while institutionalized at Mississippi's first insane asylum.

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