Sleep Tight at These Hotels in Former Psychiatric Hospitals and Jails Haunted hotels are a booming business. But for travelers not content with a simple ghost, there’s always lodging with a darker past. In the era of restoration and renovation, defunct buildings have seen new life all over the world, from an old post office-turned-food hall to churches reborn as breweries. Hotels, too, have emerged in places you might not expect, including in buildings that once imprisoned criminals and experimented with psychiatric therapies. For travelers guided by morbid curiosity, these boutique hotels afford the unique opportunity to sleep in former jail cells or hospital rooms — but, you know, with amenities. From a castle-like property in Buffalo, New York, to a Colonial-era Bostonian prison, here are eight hotels with haunting histories. | 