Grottoes

Make a wish at what might be America's only Catholic shrine to a sinner.

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

The abandoned ruins of a failed resort hide on this verdant, picture-perfect island.

This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

Hundreds of caves filled with thousands of centuries-old statues and murals.

Monks turned this mountain into a temple by digging grottoes, tunnels, and a huge pagoda-like hall.

The religious shrine that Pablo Escobar's men would allegedly visit before completing a mission.

The humble tomb of an Argentine general, hand-built by his son using stones brought down from the Andes.

A spiritual sanctuary in a natural cave.

The first recognized Neanderthal remains were found in this now-lost cave in 1856.

This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.

A hidden grotto on the grounds of the Kane County Government Center.

A crescent of 12 simple statues poised on a small windswept island off the coast of Newfoundland.

The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.

A 2,000-year-old wine press hidden in an overlooked park in Tel Aviv.

Craggy concrete faces are hidden in the walls of this artificial cave along the San Antonio River.

Local legends say that fairies used to dance in the moonlight here and invite handsome young men into their grottoes.

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.