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Smoo Cave interior.
Durness, Scotland

Smoo Cave

A sea cave with a waterfall and Viking past
Narusawa Ice Cave
Narusawa-mura, Japan

Narusawa Hyoketsu (Ice Cave)

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 
Fairy Glen, as viewed from Castle Ewan.
Isle of Skye, Scotland

Fairy Glen

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.
Niagara Cave
Harmony, Minnesota

Niagara Cave

This large midwestern cavern features impressive rock formations and an underground waterfall.
Naica's crystal cave.
caves

Found: 50,000-Year-Old Microbes Hiding in the Cave of the Crystals

They are a kind of "super life."
Sarah Laskow February 20, 2017
The pictographs use several pigments and line the cave walls
Austin, Nevada

Toquima Cave

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.
Researchers believes these pebbles were purposefully broken.
caves

Found: Tiny Pebbles Ritually 'Killed' by Paleolithic People

They used them to color a dead body then broke them in half.
Sarah Laskow February 14, 2017
Luecke from satellite view
Smithville, Texas

Giant 'Luecke' Signature

A Texas landowner spelled out his name with three miles of trees, a giant signature that's been used by NASA to evaluate satellite imagery.
Pekelné Doly, or "Mines of Hell," motorcycle club.
Cvikov, Czechia

Pekelné Doly (Mines of Hell)

The largest manmade caves in Europe now function as a motorbike club's headquarters.
Shoshone, Idaho

Shoshone Bird Museum of Natural History

Three generations of intrepid collectors display their curious artifacts in a homemade museum right next to the caves they discovered.
Caves at Crewell Crags
Worksop, England

Ice Age Cave Dwellings at Creswell Crags

A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.
The hermitage in question, with the chapel in the foreground.
caves

This Austrian Town Is Hiring a Professional Cave Hermit

Saalfelden wants someone to live in their 350-year-old hermitage.
Cara Giaimo January 13, 2017
Wonder Cave Entrance.
Rudolph, Wisconsin

Rudolph Grotto Gardens

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.
The 1.5-billion-year pool.
Timmins, Ontario

The World's Oldest Pool of Water

It's 2 billion years old!
An abandoned bunker.
Swindon, England

Britain's Secret Underground Bunkers

There are hundreds of secret WWII bases hidden in British forests. Built to fight a Nazi invasion, they remained unknown for decades.
Slabsides
Highland, New York

Slabsides

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.
Chattanooga, Tennessee

Ruby Falls

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.
Yokoi's Cave, Talofofo Falls Resort Park, Guam
Inarajan, Guam

Yokoi's Cave

The underground hideout of a Japanese soldier for whom World War II ended in 1972.