These wonders can be found in the Rock River Canyon Wilderness area of the upper peninsula of Michigan. Nature photographer Nina Asunto snowshoed there to capture these amazing images. You can view more photos at the lin...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/08/The-Eben-Ice-Caves/
A home carved into a cliff face has many advantages: it's climate-controlled, easy to defend, and sturdy. It takes quite some time to build, but once it's done, many generations can use it. Cliff homes exist all over the...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/24/10-Incredible-Ancient-Cliff-Dwellings/
The Marietas Islands off the Pacific coast of Mexico contain a gem of nature: a hidden beach. La Playa de Amor is accessible through a sea cave. It's set in a wildlife preserve, so access is restricted. But those who ca...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/11/The-Hidden-Beach/
On the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, cave tomb... ...h now mainly used by shepherds as sheep pens, the caves cut into the rock faces of the mountains were onc...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/25/Domus-de-Janas/
Living in an underground cave has many advantages: they are sturdy, well-insulated, energy-efficient, and who cares about all that, because it's just plain cool! Shown here is Cottage Cave, a home established over 200 ye...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/12/10-Cave-Homes-Wed-Like-to-Live-In/
The Eisriesenwelt is an enormous cave system south of Salzburg, Austria. It's forty-two kilometers long, the first kilometer of which is covered in wondrous ice formations. The cave is open to visitors during the sum...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/19/eisriesenwelt-the-largest-ice-cave-in-the-world/
Near Orda, a Russian village in the Ural Mountains, you can find an enormous underwater gypsum cave. It's one of the largest in the world, with galleries stretching as far as five kilometers. Victor Lyagushkin led a...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/17/underwater-cave-stretches-five-kilometers/
The Marble Caverns, as the name translates to English, are in General Carrera, a lake that straddles the border of Argentina and Chile. The lake has thrown gravel against the blue marble cliffs for millions of years,...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/29/las-cavernas-de-marmol/
Cave animals just might be some of the strange... ...troglobite is an animal that exclusively live in caves and has adapted to its dark surroundings. Most tr... ...de the cave and trogloxenes, and animals that use caves for shelter but travel outside the cave for nouri... ...ment are the only things that make...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/26/underground-animals-cool-cave-critters-part-one/
Hang Ken, a cave rediscovered in Vietnam last year, may be the largest in the world: Surrounded by jungle and used in the Vietnam war as a hideout from American bombardments, it is so large that it could hold a block...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/31/you-could-fit-a-skyscraper-inside-the-worlds-largest-cave/
