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Caves

Zhangjiajie, China

Tianmen Shan

A total of 999 stairs lead visitors through a massive hole in a mountain known as the Gateway to Heaven.

(Flickr/Axiraa)

Piusa Sand Caves

Man-made mineral caves house massive bat colony.

Sucre, Venezuela

Sarisarinama

Massive sinkholes on a mountain in one of the most remote places in Venezuela.

Maastricht, Netherlands

St. Pietersberg Caves

Incredible labyrinth of man made caves.

Steps leading up to rooms in the hotel

Hajvali, Turkey

Gamirasu Cave Hotel

Live a night as a Byzantine King, with a minibar and private jacuzzi.

Long Shot

Geghard Monastery

This Armenian monastery was carved out of cliffs and named after the spear used to stab Jesus.

If you hike out from the official trail end you can get views of some of the other caves. The hiking is much tougher and the footing is pretty lousy

Granite Falls, Washington

Big Four Ice Caves

Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.

Painted onto the side of the valley (Flickr/plαdys)

Viñales Mural de la Prehistoria

Neo-cave art on the macro scale.

Dripping Springs, Texas

Hamilton Pool

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

Sparta, Tennessee

Virgin Falls Pocket Wilderness

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

Cave Moon, interior galleries

Titulcia, Spain

Cave of the Moon

Mysterious Spanish catacombs of unknown origins.

Cenobio de Valeron. (Wikimedia Commons)

Cenobio de Valeron

Hundreds of caves once used to store grains and animal feed.

Devil's Icebox. (Creative Commons)

Columbia, Missouri

Devil's Icebox

Curious cave that stays a cool 56 degrees all year long.

Isle of Staffa, Scotland

Fingal's Cave

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

The Lost Sea

Sweetwater, Tennessee

Lost Sea

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

Collage of the tunnel at Tunnel Beach, Dunedin, New Zealand, showing the beginning, a look backwards up the tunnel, and a view of the beach at the end of the tunnel. (Wikimedia Commons)

Dunedin, New Zealand

Tunnel Beach

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

Chattanooga, Tennessee

Raccoon Mountain Caverns

More than five miles of underground passageways.

Sasquatch Caves. (Creative Commons)

Hope, British Columbia

Sasquatch Caves

A hiking area billed as a possible home to Bigfoot.