Lis's commute takes her past Arkham Asylum

As you may be aware, H.P. Lovecraft's town of Arkham is based, more-or-less, on Danvers, Massachusetts. The mental hospital in which H.P Lovecraft characters end up is never named in his stories, but is in Arkham, and the folks at DC use the name "Arkham Asylum" to refer to the place where Batman's enemies always end up and immediately escape from.

I'm not talking about the Batman one; I'm talking about the Cthuloid horror one. The mental institution in Danvers was originally called the State Lunatic Asylum at Danvers, and later the Danvers State Insane Asylum. It was a creepily impressive neo-Gothic building that looked like a Cthuloid horror insane asylum.

It was closed down in 1992, and was finally torn down a couple years back. It's now condominiums, but they managed to re-create the look of the main building on one of their central buildings.

Lis's commute to work goes right past it. It's right next to the State Police armory, incidentally. Lis thought this was generally a good idea for when the psychotics broke out and started rampaging; I thought it was just a way to make sure that the rampaging psychotics could get guns.

Lis, incedentally, works in Ipswich. The (fictional) town of Innsmouth, home of the fish-people, lies within the real borders of Ipswich.