3,485 Comments for Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)

I was thinking the same looking at the previous pic of the auditorium, but see it even more clearly in this picture

I can imagine these places being used in top British dark comedy The League of Gentlemen, it just seems so fitting for their style!

Let them spell it how they like! At the end of the day, it's a fabuloso picture! Try being more constructive!

Wow! I am simply, above all, astounded with all your pictures, and I'm only about half way through and am going to be really sad when I get to the end!

I wish I had the bravery and courage to go to places like this, but I just couldn't, I have an extreme nervous disposition and very active imagination, and a lot of these pictures have given me the creeps, but in a good way. I think the loney chair shots and the stairways give me the creeps the most!

There are no better words I can use to praise your work, so I will just have to go with "fuckin'- A" man and hope that appeases! Do you have any intention of coming to Britain and searching out places like this? To start you off, I know of a place in Surrey called Cane Hill, that's a very spooky looking place, looks worth checking out!

I take my hat off to your brilliance. Well done, fantastic site and keep 'em coming!

I think this is my favourite of the photos featuring this ray of light. It's gorgeous, in a dark and eerie sort of way. Kind of wish this were one of the available wallpapers; I'd love to have it in my rotation.

Overexposed, sure, but I like it nonetheless. It has a dreamy-drunk-nightmare sort of feeling to it. If all your work were like this it would totally suck--but in the midst of so many clean, stark images, it really has a lot of impact, I think.

Does anyone see the next eBay fad - "Actual Buttons from Byberry"? There's a market out there, people!
8`-)

Archeologists asked the same questions when exploring the Egyptian pyramids. Plunderers tore through them all hundreds and thousands of years before. That's why King Tut's tomb was so special, it was untouched...until Howard Carter and the boys got to it!

Some people are just sh*ts, whether in 1000 BC or 2005 AD!

I dunno, in the case of Byberry, I think the morgue represents some relief from troubled lives.

Asbestos soup. No thanks!

I'd walk gingerly on tippy-toes under that baby!

But Ed, why tag inside a building that's gonna get demolished within the next couple of years?

Another great photo, Motts. I love the contrast between the emerald-green vegetation and dull, decaying brick buildings.

How utterly charming, Ed!
The only difference is the mold is smarter than Billy Idol and could probably make a better record.
I first thought that pick was a Mason jar with something gross in it!

Actually, that photo looks like the archival photos I've seen of neglected patients back in the mid-20th century. Minus the beer, of course! Oh, and the graffiti. And the patients didn't have buff arms, like this dude.