Visiting the Indiana Medical History Museum is not like visiting the art museum or the children’s museum. This is an ...

When Charlotte Brontë died—the last of her massively talented family to succumb to an early death—the press entered a feeding frenzy. A friend and equally famous writer aimed to set the record ...

In the late 1800s, visitors came to Mapleton Hill seeking wellness, faith and fresh air at the Boulder-Colorado Sanitarium, a place known for strict diets, outdoor cures and some unusual treatments.

Now the nation’s oldest chartered hospital will become Philadelphia’s newest museum.

As the world learned how to deal with mental illnesses in the late 19th century, hospitals were established where those with the worst cases could be sent to be treated. The problem was that doctors ...

Editor’s note: This post has been updated. Read the original post here. For those following the Gregorian calendar, and that’s most of us, that magic moment when the old year ends in the last seconds ...

During the Victorian era, mental asylums had a reputation of treating patients with inhumane methods. However, a West Sussex mental health hospital, built in the late 19th Century, was a pioneering ...

Abandoned a few years after the reunification of Germany, this haunting late 19th-century hospital building has a chequered past. It was originally built in a wooded region southwest of Berlin with ...

Sara Yorke Stevenson was in Mexico City when the French army entered in 1863. (Public Domain) Sara came from a wealthy family that had investments in the southern U.S. cotton industry. In the early ...

Plus, Sotheby’s Paris reports a record-breaking $104 million sale and police arrest two suspects related to the Louvre heist. A Degas at Acquavella's booth at Art Basel Paris. Courtesy of Art Basel ...

Thermal springs, whitewashed fortresses and street art: venture beyond Portugal's main cities to experience the country's up-and-coming destinations. One of the oldest settlements in Portugal, the ...