Tourist Cave
A tourist cave with a wedding theme. More than 1,000 couples have taken their vows in the natural chapel within this cave.
Part of a major cave system, now a National Park. Notable especially for its improvements, including a set of elevators that take you 750 feet below to the underground lunchroom. A big tourist attraction. The bat amphitheater is another unusual feature of the Park, where at certain times of the...
This cave is visible only as part of a motorized tour, as guides steer passengers in propane-fueled jeeps through the cave passages. The cave's grand ballroom was used by the Ku Klux Klan to conduct meetings and cross burnings in the 1920s, but these days the room is rented out for other types of...
A developed tourist cave with a large main passageway, an underground lake offering rowboat rides, a wedding chapel and an elevator.
A cave discovered in 1963, when Texas Highway Department workers, drilling a test hole for an overpass on Interstate 35, lost their drill bit into a void. The hole was widened, and the 1.5 miles of cave discovered there was soon developed into a tourist attraction.
Tourist cave with a "stalacpipe organ", an instrument with padded hammers that strike individual stalactites, generating an unusual and wondrous sound.
The longest continuous cave system in the world, with more than 300 miles of mapped passageways. A 50,000-acre National Park offers several different tours of the cave.
This highly developed cave has an underground ballroom, and an underground theater with a patriotic son-et-lumeire show, in which an American flag is projected onto a curtain of stalagtites. Underground gift shop too.
Mystic Caverns, and the adjacent Crystal Dome Cavern, are fairly typical of the 40 or so southern "show caves" listed by the National Caves Association as open to the public (four of which are in Arkansas), with gift shop, pipe handrails, and a Christian aura. Mystic was opened to commercial tours...
A tourist cave where the tour is conducted from a boat, as much of the cave is flooded with water.
An unusually irreverent tourist cave, with tour guides that interpret the vague, bulbous natural cave formations in a subjective and entertaining manner. Next door to the highly developed and more traditional Howe Caverns.