Top 31 Coolest Abandoned Places Explored by Adventurous Redditors
Abandoned places give me the chills…
Whenever I chance upon one, I imagine who once walked its various halls, climbed its staircases, and slept in its bedrooms. Were they troubled? Careless? Frustrated? What was going on their lives at the time, and what led to such a magnificent place being left behind and forgotten? So mysterious. I once found an old Monastery that hadn't been inhabited in at least 50 years. It's one of the coolest abandoned places I've been to. That was back when I was a kid, before I knew you actually need to wear a mask at these places, as you don't know which hidden bacteria might be hiding in its walls. Also, you might not want to run up a flight of 50-year-old rotting stairs. Bad, bad idea…
Safety comes first! It's important to remember that. So today I've compiled a cool list of abandoned places that people have explored on Reddit. Next you can check out these memes for lone rangers walking the road less traveled.
''The 12,000 year-old Gobekli Tepe, twice the age of Stonehenge and perhaps the oldest temple in the world. The site was mysteriously abandoned around 8,000 BC and rediscovered in the twentieth century.'
'The former Market Street power plant sits along the Mississippi River. It opened in 1905 and closed in 1984, cited for numerous environmental violations.'
'We explored a beautiful Tudor mansion that was left abandoned after a family tragedy. He couldn't stand living where the incident happened and left it behind.'
'One of my neighbors vanished some years ago. The car is still parked in the yard, there is still mail in the mailbox and old trash in the bins. I can't help but looking at that house every time I pass by.'
'The abandoned underground city of Derinkuyu in Central Turkey, delving nearly 300 feet into the ground and capable of holding 20,000 people. It was used for thousands of years even up to the 20th century.'