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Photographer Gordon Donovan snapped these eerie images of the long-abandoned immigrant hospital on Ellis Island in New York

Tourists can look inside rooms that were previously shut, including a linen room where mattresses were dried after being cleaned

A look inside a bathroom used by thousands of immigrants in one of the wards inside the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital in New York

One of the creepy main corridors that visitors walk through during hard-hat tours of the dilapidated hospital buildings

Ellis Island, known as the 'Gateway to America', is situated just north of the Statue of Liberty and just south of Lower Manhattan

A giant cage was attached to this building, which was used to house psychiatric patients after they arrived from overseas 

Abandoned 60 years ago the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital has become a popular stop for curious tourists after reopening recently

The hospital was where one out of ten arrivals deemed too ill to enter the US were sent recover or die

Ellis Island – known as the 'Gateway to America' – was the country's largest and most active immigration station from 1892 to 1924

Tourists are taken inside the laundry room during hard-hat tours through the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital

More than 12 million newcomers were processed on Ellis Island, but some were deemed unfit for entry and sent to the hospital

This large contraption is one of the old washing machines, from around 1930, found in the hospital's laundry room

The 29-building medical complex, which opened in 1902, was in its day the largest public health institution in America

During breaks hospital staff could retreat to this room which was equipped with a fireplace and furniture

For $25 per person, visitors are taken on a 90-minute guided tour of some of the hospital's buildings, including its powerhouse

Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital operated as a health complex until 1930 and was left to rot when the immigration station closed in 1954

The hard-hat tour takes visitors through select areas of the 750-bed medical complex, including wards, kitchens and morgues

Gordon Donovan said the fading colours, corroding machinery and strong textures make it a 'wonderful photography experience'

Much of the medical equipment has been removed over the years but visitors can still see some of the original machinery