A place that screws with you on a daily basis. Or whatever's running it. It might be pushing it to attribute malevolence to the bricks and mortar.

[Teasing her means he doesn't have to tell her about his own paranoiac leanings. The memory-fogged suspicion that he never left at all. But who'd dream up such a god-awful future for themselves, really? Assume they deserve it?

...Well, point made and taken.]