In pictures: 8 eerie abandoned hospitals in Scotland

Several once vast hospitals caring for the sick and the troubled now lie empty and derelict across ScotlandWhat is left are often eerie windows into how the most vulnerable were cared for over time.

Killearn Hospital, Stirlingshire, was originally built to cope with World War Two casualties. PIC: Gordon Valentine/www.killearnontheweb.co.uk

From asylums to fever hospitals and casualty wards set up during World War Two, here we look at the hospitals long abandoned, many which have no known future.