There are many places in the world that are so breathtakingly beautiful, they attract millions of visitors every year. Some destinations fill you with a sense of peace and tranquility, others draw you in with their incredible architecture. There are those where the wonders of nature speak to your soul. And vibrant cities where the energy makes you feel more alive than ever before. It’s no surprise that Instagram is filled with #travel photographs. People save for months to be able to tick off their bucket list destinations, while others live vicariously through them by taking in the sights and sounds via beautiful IG reels.
But not every place on earth is Insta-worthy. There are some that might suck the life right out of you with their overcrowded, dreary, polluted and downright ugly appearance. Many of them can be found on a subreddit called Urban Hell. It has more than 1.5 million members who gather to share photographs of “all the hideous places human beings built or inhabit.” As the page states, it showcases “the darker side of the cities, towns, and villages in our shared world.” We has put together a list of the most hellish posts from the page. Keep scrolling and don’t forget to upvote the ones that stand out for you.
#1 Diamond Mine In Mirny
#2 Chinese Apartment Buildings
#3 Hong Kong
#4 The State Of Syria Due To The War
#5 A Man Takes Bath As The Water Leaks From A Pipeline On A Smoggy Morning In New Delhi, India
#6 Destroyed Apartment Blocks Of Bakhmut After Its Capture By Russian Forces
#7 Bishkek, The Capital Of Kyrgyzstan, Is The City With The Worst Air Quality In The World
#8 A Shocking Amount Of Filth Behind An Apartment Block In Marseille, France ( Parc Kalliste)
#9 Homelessness Problem In The Big Canadian Cities
#10 Another Newly Built Chinese Village
#11 A Shanty Town In Paris
#12 Block 17 Norilsk, Russia
#13 Pyongyang, North Korea Before Dawn
#14 Nairobi, Kenya
#15 Abandon Apartment Buildings In Tehran Iran
#16 1970s Houston Downtown With Mostly Parking Spaces
#17 Kampala, Uganda
#18 A Building In Singapore
#19 Smog In Gurugram, India
#20 Sphinx Looking At Egypt Ubranhell, This Is What He Sees All Day. Giza, Egypt
#21 Greymouth, UK
#22 The View From My Friend’s House In Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
#23 Quebec City Destroyed Centenary Victorian Houses To Build This Monstrosity
#24 Hong Kong
#25 Dubai
#26 Soviet Scientific Institutions
#27 Beach Day In Mumbai ☀️⛱️
#28 Tokyo. Endless City
#29 A Photo Of Hashima Island, Japan
#30 Kowloon Walled City
#31 Business District In Egypt’s New Administrative Capitol From Plane View
#32 Playground In Łódź, Poland
#33 Some Views I Took Of Cairo Driving Around
#34 L.A
#35 Hong Kong
#36 Detroit
#37 Georgia’s Soviet Heritage
#38 Pyongyang, Capital Of North Korea
#39 Life In Burundi,the Poorest Country In The World
#40 San Diego River Homeless Encampment
#41 This Building In Milan
#42 Playground In Russia
#43 New York, Bronx In The 1970’s
#44 Los Angeles Is A Wasted Opportunity
#45 When Big Brother Is Watching
#46 Islamabad, Pakistan
#47 Equality In Face, But In Reality: Poverty Kills Dignity In Hong Kong
#48 Gary, Indiana
#49 I Live In Brazil And People Here Often Say That Brazil “Is Just Like The Us, But It’s Poor And Tropical”. I Don’t Think They’re Completely Wrong
#50 Bucharest In 1994, After The 45 Years Long Golden Age Of Central Planning
#51 The Unfinished Oceanwide Plaza Development In Downtown Los Angeles
#52 The (Lack Of) Urban Planning
#53 Belgrade, Serbia
#54 Look What They Did To My Boy
#55 The New Presidential Palace In Egypt’s Administrative Capital [ 10 Times The Size Of The White House ]
#56 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
#57 Looks Lovely, Makes For A Wonderful View. Absolute Urban Hell
#58 Church Of St. Mary’s Assumption In Ahaus, Germany
#59 Moscow, Russia
#60 Kyoto, Japan
#61 Urban Shadow
#62 Dubai Frame
#63 The Dark Side Of Edinburgh
#64 Kirovsk, Russia 2025
#65 Welch, Wva
#66 Aboriginal Rez/Hoods In Canada
#67 Chkalovsk, Tajikistan
#68 Urban Hell? Or Cool Brutalist Architecture?
#69 Saint-Petersburg, Russia
#70 The State Of Neglected Properties In The Canadian Prairie Cities “Ghettos” Is Alarming
#71 Hong Kong
#72 Bakhmut
#73 Residential Complex In Krasnodar, Russia
#74 Bouddhanath, Nepal. Then vs. Now
#75 Montreal’s Eyesore Graffities
#76 Seattle-Tacoma Airport Parking
#77 Shopping Malls In Finland
#78 Saudi Arabia Begins Construction On ‘The Line’ Skyscraper City In The Desert
#79 Naberezhnye Chelny,russia
#80 Wrocław, Poland
