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r/abandoned. r/abandoned is a community for the discussion of urban exploration and the abandoned. Founded 2008 · 756.6K members

765.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached 93.6K upvotes, which works out to 122 per 1,000 members.

122peak upvotes per 1,000 members
765.1Kmembers
93.6Kbest post
6.3Kmost comments
706posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

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Gallery 65% Image 22% Video 10% Text 2% Question 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

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What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Came back to my childhood home after 10 years.

↑ 93.6K 💬 4.8K gallery 2025

I found this camera in an abandoned house so I took the film and developed it

↑ 83.9K 💬 1.7K gallery 2025

Abandoned home everything left behind, including old camaro

↑ 66.9K 💬 6.3K gallery 2025

The eerie yellow brick road of abandoned “Land of Oz” theme park in North Carolina

↑ 39.1K 💬 494 image 2025

Actual ghost town

↑ 37.4K 💬 1.6K video 2024

Sears headquarters

↑ 35.9K 💬 1.4K video 2025

An abandoned church in rural Alabama

↑ 28.8K 💬 775 image 2026

Found this tiny chapel completely swallowed by ivy on a hill in rural France. Looks like something straight out of a fairytale

↑ 25.5K 💬 364 gallery 2026

Forgotten VHS tapes bleached by the sun

↑ 20.7K 💬 540 gallery 2026

Mary J. Blige's Former Hollywood Hills Mansion!

↑ 20.3K 💬 747 image 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/abandoned, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/abandoned?
r/abandoned ("r/abandoned") describes itself this way: r/abandoned is a community for the discussion of urban exploration and the abandoned. It was founded in 2008 and has 756.6K members.
How many members does r/abandoned have?
r/abandoned has about 765.1K members. ViralHunt has tracked 706 of its posts; the biggest reached 93.6K upvotes, which is 122 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/abandoned?
"Came back to my childhood home after 10 years." reached 93.6K upvotes and 4.8K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/abandoned.
What subreddits are similar to r/abandoned?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/NoFilterNews, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/Archaeology.
What kind of posts do best on r/abandoned?
Of the posts we hold, 65% are gallery posts and 22% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/abandoned?
Across 706 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 16:00 UTC (13.1K avg upvotes), Monday at 07:00 UTC (12.7K avg upvotes), Sunday at 23:00 UTC (12.1K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/abandoned?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/abandoned has 13.2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 305 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/abandoned, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.