Top 31 Coolest Abandoned Places Explored by Adventurous Redditors

Eleonora Bader

Feb 24, 2024 5:00 PM EST

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.

01
'Found this beautiful room in an abandoned Hungarian hotel.'

via Emptyspacesuk
02
'Abandoned train and tracks in Japan.'

via Scrollerium
03
'Rolling Acres Mall in Akron, Ohio.'

via netphilia
04
‘Inside the NYC subway cars dropped in the Atlantic over a decade ago.'

via esotheric
05
'Abandoned Water slide in Japan.'

via Scrollerium
06
'Incredible ‘graveyard’ of British red phone boxes tucked away next to Surrey railway line. UK.'

via u/netphilia
07
‘Three years ago today we explored the 65,000 square foot Petergrant mansion which is the largest mansion in Canada.'

via RiddimRyder
08
'Drought in Mexico reveals 16th century Church.'

via esotheric
09
'Abandoned WW2 bunker in Normandy'

via Emptyspacesuk
10
''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.'

via intofarlands
11
'The former Market Street power plant sits along the Mississippi River. It opened in 1905 and closed in 1984, cited for numerous environmental violations.'

via netphilia
12
'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.'

via urbexandchill
13
'Unfinished loop bridge left abandoned in Japan.'

via Scrollerium
14
'Reception desk at abandoned dentist’s office.'

via 2little2horus2
15
'Near Pardubice, Czech Republic.'

via al_hruzo
16
'Abandoned Church in Italy almost completely overgrown.'

via explorationofdecay
17
'Room in a abandoned castle in France.'

via Relicta_Places
18
'Abandoned telephone booth in Japan.'

via Scrollerium
19
'Abandoned circular school in a swampy forest.'

via Scrollerium
20
'Abandoned house in Louisiana.'

via tshungus
21
'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.'

via teo541
22
'An abandoned house in the middle of nowhere that I inherited.'

via peacedetski
23
'Abandoned gas station, Oregon USA.'

via Tysoch
24
'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.'

via intofarlands
25
'The staircase in an abandoned mansion in Italy.'

via Urbex_Badger
26
'Abandoned Brewery Staircase - PA'

via abandonedupstate
27
'Abandoned 120-year-old Italian Villa Balcony View.'

via explorationofdecay
28
'The Wheel of Misfortune in NV'

via u/deleted
29
'This abandoned former Blockbuster Video is listed as historical site on Google Maps'

via Freaktography
30
'Abandoned amusement park in Nara, Japan.'

via Scrollerium
31
'Once one of Detroit's most opulent nights out, but now a crumbling (albeit oddly magnificent) parking garage.'

via netphilia