3,485 Comments for Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)

The end of this room has a newer-construction brick wall about four layers thick. My friends put endless hours into poking a hole in it with a 20 pound sledge but to no avail. They believe it leads to tunnels but I've seen the blueprints to Byberry and they show nothing in that area. I think it was a loading dock due to the dozens of forklift pallets (now bridging the black hallway) and the flat ground outside of the building where it's located.

There's also a couple of pizza ovens still here. The large bread ovens were made by the guitar-amplifier company Marshall when they still made non-musical machinery. The original Marshall logo is riveted to the front and it mirrors the one on the front of the amp.

There's also another dental office in the old turn-of-the-century "cottages" across the complex with a full set-up, chair and all. The equipment in the old one appears to date back to the forties.

There's also another x-ray room behind the photographer. There used to be thousands of x-rays all over these rooms...thousands...but every single one of them is gone now.

All of these bottles are empty but the amazing thing about them is that they're all glass. They used to be stacked in boxes that lined the walls but you know how it goes in abandoned places near the city.

You wouldn't believe how many dummies think this for cremating corpses. It's filled with wire racks about eight inches apart that should tell even the morons what it was used for. There's a smaller one in the dentist's office.

The dripping water always hits the top of my beer can too, like it's possessed.

The lead singer/bassist of the Goth-a-billy band The Young Werewolves still has the head she knocked off over a decade ago. I believe it's a candle-holder these days. It's made from poured concrete with re-bar. It's heavy as Hell and requires a few people to lift it upright. Every time we do it though, some idiot knocks it over again.

What you don't see is the one piece molded vinyl bed inside this extremely tiny room. They were called "Seclusion Rooms".

This is the point where a tunnel goes underground. See how it intersects with the hill in the bottom left corner? Every building here is accessible from the inside via these tunnels.

On one occasion a friend vomitted all over the floor of a "hang-out room". The next week there was a hairy bushy mold growing up from it that looked like Billy Idol's hair!

A creative lie would've made this frightful photo a Byberry legend!

This room was set on fire some time ago. Most of the useable furniture is just about gone but there are still a few items here and there. I can remember about a dozen "hang-out" rooms that went up in flames but someone always manages to set up another one.

Godbox may be gone, but two of their members are currently in the crushing Philly Death-Metal band "Trephination". They're also responsible for the myriads of McDonald's "Double-checked" stickers everywhere there.

This is actually a pic of the infamous "Button Hallway". Notice the thousands of black plastic buttons on the floor. They lead into a textiles workshop with some of the ugliest fabrics I've ever seen.