Old Orange County Courthouse / Briarcliff Manor

The 1901 Romanesque courthouse in Santa Ana played the exterior of Briarcliff Manor asylum, with a whole extra floor added digitally; Briarcliff's interiors were studio sets. It popped up again in Freak Show's Orphans.

See it on the live map Every American Horror Story: Asylum location

Nearby on the Atlas

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