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Caves

Admiring trees in Sequoia National Park, California.

20 Hidden Spots Inside America’s National Parks and Forests

Celebrate over a century of national parks by exploring these secret places.

Molly McBride Jacobson May 8, 2025

Ajanta 2

Temples Inside Caves Are What Remains of an Ancient Buddhist Society

Western India is home to the last relics of a 2,000-year-old culture.

Atlas Obscura August 25, 2016

Cell phone light trails illuminating the caves of Mønsted Kalkgruber.

Stoholm, Denmark

Mønsted Kalkgruber

Nearly 40 miles and 1,000 years of limestone mines under Denmark.

Found: Secret, Illicit Tunnels in an Oregon Park

Police are not happy.

Sarah Laskow August 4, 2016

Atlas Obscura's Great Nevada Road Trip

Five days. Fifty hidden wonders. A thousand miles.

Sponsored By Travel Nevada

Underwater at Cenote Angelita

Chumkopó, Mexico

Cenote Angelita

A flooded Mexican cave that hides a river beneath the water.

Cavernous exploration requires specialized equipment and highly skilled divers

Andros I, Bahamas

Subsurface Bahamian Caves

Inhospitable caverns just beneath this island paradise offer insights into alien worlds.

Blue Hole Fly Over

Great Blue Hole

A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.

A Centuries-Old Man-Made Cave Is Being Demolished to Make Way for an Airport

Some anthropologists, though, are trying to digitize it.

Eric Grundhauser July 18, 2016

Killiansburg Cave, June 2016

Sharpsburg, Maryland

Killiansburg Cave

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales

Llechwedd Caverns Trampoline Park

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

Buddhist statues dominate the entrance

Hpa-An, Myanmar

Saddar Cave

Caves full of Buddhist statues, incredible rock formations and a deserted lagoon.

Some Astronauts Are Spending 6 Days in Caves to Train for Space

It's part of the European Space Agency's Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising, which forms the acronym CAVE.

Eric Grundhauser June 28, 2016

Waitomo, New Zealand

Waitomo Glowworm Caves

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

Couple Gets Rare Access to Glowworm Cave for Wedding Photos

They were celebrities.

Eric Grundhauser June 15, 2016

At Grimes Point

Hidden Cave at Grimes Point

This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

The Nation’s First Tuberculosis Hospital Was Built Inside a Cave

Patients in Kentucky took their cures underground.

Ashley Bowen June 7, 2016

Heavy Rains Expose Rarely-Seen Aquifer in Texas Cave

Just because a cave is flooded doesn't mean it's ruined.

Eric Grundhauser June 7, 2016