3,485 Comments for Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)

Incredible!!! Did/Could you walk down that one?

Is that pipe in the right corner twisted open, or are my eyes playing tricks on me?

Evil Dead....aweful movie....just aweful!! ;) Great photo though....awesome capture.

It is saddening, but I hope they didn't die in the morgue!

I bet a museum or historical society would be interested in those artifacts. If/when this place is ever demolished, those will be some of the few physical traces left of it.

This reminds me of Alcatraz, the iron staircases leading up to the levels of cell blocks. Great picture.

Very bizarre!

One of the best photos in the whole bunch.

It's horrifying and depressing to think of the sad and desperate lives that ended in these crude little chambers.

This looks like the corridor of the crumbling, decaying space station in the original Russian version of the "Solaris" film. Strange that decay and abandonment are so visually and philosophically fascinating.

This picture reminds me of the catacombs beneath Hadrian's Tomb in Rome. Very creepy.

The graffiti almost humanizes what otherwise would be a raw and inhuman scene.

These remind me of concentration camp crematoria. There's a famous picture of Maijdanek that looks very much like this, except there are half-burned corpses inside the chambers.

This is an almost Christ-like image. Your eye easily finds a cross, and the rust looks like blood.

Incredible shot! The atmosphere of this one is unsettling. Amazing . . .