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Caves

Townsend, Tennessee

Tuckaleechee Caverns

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

The Santuario Facade on Monte Pellegrino. (Creative Commons)

Santuario di Santa Rosalia

Cave shrine on Monte Pellegrino.

The entrance to the caves in St. Paul.

Saint Paul, Minnesota

Wabasha Street Caves

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

Shilin Stone Forest

270 million year-old forest of stone.

St Paul's Catacombs

Maltese Catacomb Complexes

Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.

Rocksprings, Texas

Devil's Sinkhole

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

Xuân Trạch, Vietnam

Hang Son Doong

World's largest cave was only discovered in 1991, and now offers tours to the public.

Bats roosting.

Hin Tung, Thailand

Bat Caves of Khao Yai National Park

Thousands of bats stream out of caves every night on the edge on Thailand's second largest park.

Domus de Janas in Bonnanaro

Nughedu Santa Vittoria, Italy

Domus de Janas Tombs

Ancient cave tombs known as the "houses of fairies."

Mammoth Cave, Kentucky

Mammoth Cave

The world's longest known cave system.

Inside the caves

Vallorbe, Switzerland

Grottes de Vallorbe

Over 3km of caverns and caves at the Switzerland-France border contain the largest underground river in Central Europe.

Cave of Lascaux; Prof Saxx/Photographer

Montignac, France

Cave of Lascaux

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

The cave.

Lendalfoot, Scotland

Sawney Bean's Cave

Legend says this cave housed a 16th-century cannibal and his family of 48.

Cave where the remains of Homo floresiensis were found.

Boawae, Indonesia

Liang Bua Cave

A real-life "hobbit" cave in Flores, Indonesia.

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

El Meson de la Cava

Renowned restaurant tucked in a cave once occupied by buccaneers.

Troglodyte dwellings in Iran's village of Kandovan.

Troglodyte Village of Kandovan

Modern-day cave dwellers carve elaborate homes out of volcanic debris.

Local boatman leave phallic statues as an offering to Phra Nang, a princess goddess.

Phela, Thailand

Phra Nang Cave

A phallic shrine to a princess goddess in Krabi, Thailand.

Howes Cave, New York

Howe Caverns

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?