Jewel Cave, located 13 miles west of Custer, has more than 208 miles of “mapped and surveyed passage ways,” with hundreds of suspected passages yet to be explored, according to the National Park ...

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Vandals have damaged Fitton Cave in Newton County. They removed several cave formations, including stalagmites and draperies, said Cassie Branstetter, a spokeswoman for the Buffalo National River. It ...

Most people come to Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula for its namesake — the colorful, mineral-stained sandstone cliffs that line mighty Lake Superior. Those cliffs are ...

It was nearly two decades after settling in Snake Valley, Nevada, as a rancher in the 1860s when Absalom Lehman made a startling discovery close to his property. Some accounts say Lehman felt a cool ...

BAYFIELD, Wis. >> Walking atop a frozen stretch of Lake Superior’s south shore, Jon Michels paused to look at a 30-foot-tall rippled ice wall cascading over a sandstone cliff cave. Then he noted ...

San Francisco, Calif. -- Biofilms, which are complex layered communities of sulfur-consuming microbes, increase the rate of cave formation, but may also shed light on other biofilms, including those ...

BAYFIELD, WIS. – Walking atop a frozen stretch of Lake Superior's south shore, Jon Michels paused to look at a 30-foot-tall rippled ice wall cascading over a sandstone cliff cave. Then he noted ...

Located in Thung Nham, Hang But (Buddha) features a rare stalactite resembling a meditating Buddha, captivating local legends ...

Just two weeks after an Indiana woman made headlines by finding a crystal resembling fried chicken, the National Park Service has unveiled an equally strange formation in a remote South Dakota cave ...