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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.
A tourist cave with a wedding theme. More than 1,000 couples have taken their vows in the natural chapel within this cave.
A tourist cave where the tour is conducted from a boat, as much of the cave is flooded with water.
A religious grotto and cave built by Father Philip J. Wagner. Started in the 1920's, work on the site continued until his death in 1959. The Cave of Wonder enters a thousand feet into a hill side, and while it is claustrophobic at times, it opens out into a two story...
A natural feature more interesting perhaps for its tourist infrastructure than the feature itself, the Polar Caves is part of a cluster of highlighted natural attractions in the old tourist corridor through New Hampshire's White Mountains.
The mud cliffs of Dublin Gulch, on the southwestern end of the remote desert town of Shoshone, were hollowed out into interconnected rooms that were used as homes in the early 1900's by miners and others (including the norious Shorty Harris), until the 1960s.
A developed tourist cave with a large main passageway, an underground lake offering rowboat rides, a wedding chapel and an elevator.
A privately owned cave developed to study cave environments and groundwater hydrology. Tours are led by flashlight, carefully avoiding stepping on any living organisms that might have wandered onto the dirt pathways, such as the blind salamanders that can be found in...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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,...
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.
Tourist cave with a "stalacpipe organ", an instrument with padded hammers that strike individual stalactites, generating an unusual and wondrous sound.
This resort city in the Ozarks calls itself "The Live Music Show Capital of the World." This city of around 4,000 residents contains over 30 live performance theaters playing an average of 60 stage shows at any given time. While Branson is traditionally known for its...
A religious shrine built by a Catholic priest, the site consists of a network of paths, grottos, and caves covered in stones and shells. The original builder, Father Dobberstein, worked on the site for over 40 years, before his death in 1954. Another priest, Father...
A 14-room house carved from a sandstone monolith by Albert Christensen, who spent 12 years on the project, and his wife Gladys, who continued the work for another eight years after he died in 1957. The cavity is 5,000 square feet of fully furnished, manmade cave, with...