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There is a great variety of things to see; The city center is sculped with traditional architecture and colors from the region. Beaches vary in shape and style from long sandy beaches to almost private ones hidden by cliffs. Ponta da Piedade is a beautiful spot with a nice lighthouse from where you can make boat tours to the natural caves. The harbour in the morning is full of activity, if you like to wake up early don't miss it. Also the fish market is an interesting spot. [Source]

Lagos, Portugal

People have been hollowing out caves to make their homes for many thousands of years. We all need shelter from the elements, and it didn't take long for our ancestors to run out of available real estate in natural caves. In certain parts of the world, it was easier for prehistoric people to carve out warm, dry spaces than to use other building methods. [Source]

Cave Home in Turkey

House built into a sandstone mine in the side of a mountain in Festus, Missouri, near the banks of the Mississippi River. Amazing thinking of the creator. [Source]

Beautiful Cave House

Ruby Falls is a 145-foot high underground waterfall located within Lookout Mountain, near Chattanooga, Tennessee in the United States. Ruby Falls Cave, unlike Lookout Mountain Cave, had no natural openings and could not be entered until the 20th Century; it therefore does not have the various artifacts which are often associated with caves in the southeastern United States. [Wiki]

Amazing Ruby Falls

Elephanta Island also called Gharapuri Island or place of caves is one of a number of islands in Mumbai Harbour, east of Mumbai, India. This island is a popular tourist destination because of the island's cave temples, the Elephanta Caves, that have been carved out of rock. There is also a narrow-gauge toy train from the boat area on the dock to the base of the steps leading up to the caves (about 600 meters). Along the path, hawkers sell souvenirs like necklaces, anklets, showpieces and keychains. [Wiki]

Amazing Elephanta Island, India

Lechuguilla Cave is, as of February 2012, with 134.6 miles (216.6 km) the seventh-longest explored cave in the world. Lechuguilla Cave was known until 1986 as a small, insignificant historic site in the park's back country. Small amounts of bat guano were mined from the entrance passages for a year under a mining claim filed in 1914. And This is the deepest in the continental United States (1,604 feet or 489 meters), but it is most famous for its unusual geology, rare formations, and pristine condition. [Wiki]

Amazing Lechuguilla Cave

Ice cave under Mendenhall Glacier Alaska USA. That's some pretty extreme chill there, brother. Only an exile or an underground movement would dare brave it. [Source]

Amazing Ice Cave

The Sassi di Matera are ancient cave dwellings in the Italian city of Matera, Basilicata. Matera has gained international fame for its "Sassi". The Sassi originate from a prehistoric (troglodyte) settlement, and are suspected to be some of the first human settlements in Italy. Matera is the only place in the world where people can boast to be still living in the same houses of their ancestors of 9,000 years ago. [Wiki]

Sassi di Matera, Italy

Texas Hill Country This abandoned Fredericksburg & San Antonio railroad tunnel is now home to a large colony of bats. Have you been here? [Source]

Abandoned Cave

Virgin Gorda is the third-largest and second most populous of the British Virgin Islands (BVI). And It has some awesome beautiful caves and Tourist come from neighbouring islands such as Tortola and St. Thomas by boat and return to these islands for air transportation. [Source]

Beautiful Virgin Gorda Cave

The St. Beatus Caves are an extensive cave network located in the Switzerland near the village of Beatenberg, above Lake Thun. An Augustinian monastery was established near the mouth of the caves. Saint Beatus of Lungern took up hermitage near the entrance of the cave system, probably in the ninth century. Today, approximately one kilometer of the cave system has been opened and illuminated for tourist access; the monastery site is now occupied by a restaurant and gift shop. [Wiki]

Amazing St. Beatus Caves

The Pont d'Arc is a large natural bridge, located in the Ardèche département in the south of France. The arch, carved out by the Ardèche River, is 60 m wide and 54 m high. It is usually described as the natural entrance to the Ardèche Canyon. It is a very popular canoeing and kayaking area and is heavily visited by tourists. [Wiki]

Beautiful Pont d'Arc, France

Ellora also known as Ellooru, is an archaeological site, 29 km (18 mi) North-West of the city of Aurangabad in the Indian state of Maharashtra built by the Rashtrakuta dynasty. The 34 "caves" – actually structures excavated out of the vertical face of the Charanandri hills. Well known for its monumental caves, Ellora is a World Heritage Site. The 12 Buddhist (caves 1–12), 17 Hindu (caves 13–29) and 5 Jain (caves 30–34) caves, built in proximity, demonstrate the religious harmony prevalent during this period of Indian history. [Wiki]

Amazing Ellora Caves

Mammoth Cave National Park is a U.S. National Park in central Kentucky, encompassing portions of Mammoth Cave, the longest cave system known in the world. The park's 52,830 acres (21,380 ha) are located primarily in Edmonson County, Kentucky, with small areas extending eastward into Hart County and Barren County. The park was established as a national park on July 1, 1941. It became a World Heritage Site on October 27, 1981, and an international Biosphere Reserve on September 26, 1990. [Wiki]

Amazing Mammoth Cave National Park

The Longmen Grottoes or Longmen Caves are one of the finest examples of Chinese Buddhist art. There are as many as 100,000 statues within the 1,400 caves, ranging from an 1 inch (25 mm) to 57 feet (17 m) in height. The area also contains nearly 2,500 stelae and inscriptions, whence the name “Forest of Ancient Stelae", as well as over sixty Buddhist pagodas. The images, many once painted, were carved into caves excavated from the limestone cliffs of the Xiangshan and Longmenshan mountains, running east and west. [Wiki]

Amazing Longmen Grottoes

Fed by four alpine glaciers, Fox Glacier falls 2,600 m (8,500 ft) on its 13 km journey from the Southern Alps down to the coast, with it having the distinction of being one of the few glaciers to end among lush rainforest only 300 metres (980 ft) above sea level. Although retreating throughout most of the last 100 years, it has been advancing since 1985. It is a White Snow ice cave and so Beautiful cave. [Source]

Fox Glacier Ice Cave

One of the town’s most attractive side adventures is Khao Luang Cave. It was often frequented by the royal family as a meditation and picnic spot since the reign of King Rama IV. The cave is located about 5km north of Phetchaburi, in the Khao Luang mountains. [Source]

Khao Luang Cave, Thailand

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