The 29-building hospital complex on the lesser-traveled south side of Ellis Island is a unique attraction in New York City. While most visitors head straight for the immigration museum, on the other ...

Atlas Obscura recently joined us for a tour of the now abandoned immigrant hospital on Ellis Island, and sent us a video inside the facility. We offer tours of the ...

Part of JR’s ‘Unframed — Ellis Island’ installation (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) One of New York City’s most haunting ruins has direct views of the Statue of Liberty and the Manhattan ...

Inside one of the most famous monuments in the world is a bronze plaque that reads, in part, “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your ...

Ellis Island Hospital Complex Location: New York/New Jersey On the south side of Ellis Island—across from the main building containing the Great Hall and what’s now an immigration museum—a hospital ...

Visit the abandoned immigrant hospital on Ellis Island. During the great wave of immigration, 22 medical buildings sprawled across two islands adjacent to Ellis Island, the largest port of entry to ...

On Sept. 18, 1956, an ad in The Wall Street Journal attracted considerable attention. The federal General Services Administration announced that it was “now authorized to offer one of the most famous ...