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Urban Exploration. Founded 2008 · 2.2M members

2.2M members. The best post we have captured here reached 211.1K upvotes, which works out to 95 per 1,000 members.

95peak upvotes per 1,000 members
2.2Mmembers
211.1Kbest post
3.6Kmost comments
401posts 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.

75% 23%
Gallery 75% Image 23% Text 1%

What the ceiling looks like

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

I broke the rules and took something from an abandoned church

↑ 211.1K 💬 3.6K gallery 2024

I dragged my friend along to an adventure in the Tokyo stormwater system. He was impressed.

↑ 36.3K 💬 848 image 2017

got sent to an abandoned radiology clinic but only took photos of myself confused and disgruntled in each location cause I really needed a hand x-ray

↑ 21.3K 💬 269 gallery 2026

Abandoned hotel straight out of a horror game

↑ 20.1K 💬 516 gallery 2025

Abandoned game store

↑ 20K 💬 1.3K gallery 2026

What's with all these chimneys in the woods?

↑ 16.6K 💬 598 image 2024

An abandoned house in France before and after I put away vandalism.

↑ 16.3K 💬 217 gallery 2024

Dressed as construction workers to sneak into abandoned hotel

↑ 16K 💬 600 gallery 2024

The lobby of a closed down motel on Route 66...

↑ 12.1K 💬 213 image 2018

Found inside of an abandoned historical landmark hospital with power

↑ 11.4K 💬 408 image 2018

Communities its size

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

r/urbanexploration, in numbers

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

What is r/urbanexploration?
r/urbanexploration ("Urban Exploration") is a Reddit community. It was founded in 2008 and has 2.2M members.
How many members does r/urbanexploration have?
r/urbanexploration has about 2.2M members. ViralHunt has tracked 401 of its posts; the biggest reached 211.1K upvotes, which is 95 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/urbanexploration?
"I broke the rules and took something from an abandoned church" reached 211.1K upvotes and 3.6K comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/urbanexploration.
What subreddits are similar to r/urbanexploration?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/AnarchyChess, r/PcBuild, r/bald, r/ukraine, r/GlowUps, r/LosAngeles.
What kind of posts do best on r/urbanexploration?
Of the posts we hold, 75% are gallery posts and 23% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/urbanexploration?
Across 401 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 17:00 UTC (8.4K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 17:00 UTC (7.2K avg upvotes), Thursday at 15:00 UTC (7.1K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. 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/urbanexploration?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/urbanexploration has 8.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 75 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/urbanexploration, 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.