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Museo Cuevas del Sacromonte

A museum dedicated to the centuries-old cave dwellings that housed marginalized communities on the outskirts of the former capital of Muslim Spain.

St Neot, England

Carnglaze Caverns

A haunted slate mine turned concert hall and a hidden fairy garden.

Al Hoota Cave

The biggest cave system in the Arabian Peninsula is home to a rare variety of blind fish.

Gruta de las Maravillas (Cave of Wonders)

An underground spring in a labyrinthine cave system, decorated with stalagmites and stalactites.

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Ozone, Arkansas

Glory Hole Falls

In the Ozarks, a waterfall shoots out from a glorious hole.

Steinsel, Luxembourg

Schetzel Grotto

The cave of a 12th-century hermit is still visited and venerated today.

Tufa Cave

A large wave-cut shelter, a major archeological site, overlooks the dry basin of Winnemucca Lake.

Farnham, England

Mother Ludlam's Cave

This place is the subject of local legends about a good witch and a Celtic God.

Salt Cave

Red ocher pictographs survive in this tufa rock shelter on the shore of an ancient lake.

Niter Ice Cave

A lava tube cooled to form this long tunnel that stays chilly even at the height of summer.

Caiguna, Australia

Caiguna Blowhole

One of the breathing caves of Australia's Nullarbor Plain.

Guermassa, Tunisia

Guermassa

A charming Amazigh village carved into a mountaintop.

La Sarga Cave Paintings

These 7,000-year-old cave paintings depict life in Neolithic Spain.

10 Natural Wonders That Will Make You Think You're on Another Planet

Red lakes, glowing caves, and towering pinnacles—all right here on Earth.

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Bocairent, Spain

Covetes del Colomer

This set of Berber granary caves is now an interpretation center for the cave window structures in the Clarino valley.

Bocairent, Spain

San Blai Snow Cave

This human-made cave is one of the many snow storage chambers that supported the ice supply industry in the Sierra Mariola area.