Real-life Gothic sometimes comes in the scary form of old mental institutions. Here's a fine photo collection:
There's also the amazingly-named Hellingly Asylum:
(thanks to Annette)
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Next time you're in Knox County, we'll need to take you past the old County Home. Severely creepy: enough so that it was used as a haunted house for many years after it closed. Needless to say, a "haunted asylum" provided some wonderful opportunities to scare the bejeebus out of people.
Posted by: Alison | January 12, 2012 at 11:30
Awesome! Is it documented on the Web?
Posted by: Bryan Alexander | January 12, 2012 at 18:34