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next up, we re crossing to the us and the city of milledgeville in georgia, which used to be home to one of the biggest psychiatric hospitals in the world. in recent times, the half abandoned site has become a honeypot for urban explorers. william lee roberts, who is from the state, has been to take a look. sprawling, overbearing and derelict, these 200 buildings once made up one of the largest and most notorious state run psychiatric hospitals in the world. based in milledgeville, a small town less than 100 miles from atlanta, the central state hospital s dark legacy is infamous with local residents. founded in the 19th century as the georgia state lunatic, idiot and epileptic asylum, a lack of funding and a primitive approach to mental health led to brutal treatments and, at times,

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