When the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum opened in 1864, it was meant to house a maximum of 250 patients – all of whom were to be treated in a humane and moral way. By the 1950s, the asylum was home to almost 2,400 unwanted, abandoned souls.
We sought out travel experts who have circled the globe to determine Travel’s Best Wonders of the World. Meet our panel of advisors: Josh Gates, host of Travel Channel’s Expedition Unknown; Matt Long, founder of the award-winning site LandLopers.com; and hard-core adventurer Julia Dimon.
In “Buried Worlds with Don Wildman,” the iconic Travel Channel host takes his thirst for adventure into terrifying new territory to explore mankind's darkest mysteries. In his newest series premiering on Travel Channel on Monday, June 8 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, Wildman is on a mission of a more cryptic sort, heading to remote regions of Peru, Haiti, Bulgaria and beyond
He was a promising songwriter with ties to The Byrds and The Rolling Stones, but his life came to a tragic end when he overdosed on morphine at a tiny inn outside California’s Joshua Tree National Park on September 18, 1973.