This is a list of caves of the world that have articles or that are properly cited. They are sorted by continent and then country.

Cave A cave or cavern is a natural void in the ground, specifically a space large enough for a human to enter. Caves often form by the weathering of rock and often extend deep underground. The word ''cave'' can refer to smaller openings such as sea ...

s which are in overseas territories on a different continent than the home country are sorted by the territory's continent and name.

Africa

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western cape The Western Cape is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country. It is the fourth largest of the nine provinces with an area of , and the third most populous, with an estimated 7 million inhabitants in 2020 ...

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cave painting In archaeology, Cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves. The term usually implies prehistoric origin, and the oldest known are more than 40,000 ye ...

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Algeria

* Aïn Taïba *

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Anou Boussouil Anou Boussouil (in English "Great Chasm") is a limestone karst cave located in the mountains of Djurdjura, Algeria. The cave is long and deep. The entrance to the cave is up the mountainside. During the springtime rainy season, melting snow pour ...

Anou Ifflis The Anou Ifflis cave (french: Anou Ifflis, Anu Ifflis) is a cave located in Tizi Ouzou in the mountains of the Kabylie. It is one of the deepest caves in Africa at . Notes and references Caves of Algeria Geography of Tizi Ouzo ...

* Anou Timedouine *

Gueldaman caves The Gueldaman caves (''Adrar Gueldaman'') are a prehistoric mountain ridge on the right bank of the Soummam valley in Algeria. The ridge consists of a large karst network with several natural caves, which is situated near the town of Akbou, B� ...

* Ghar Boumâaza *

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* Kef Al Kaous * Rivière De La Tafna

Botswana

* Gcwihaba * Rhino Cave

Cameroon

* Gouffre de Mbilibekon * Grottes de Linté * Grotte de Loung * Grotte de Mfouda * Grotte FovuFovu à Baham – Les grottes sacrées des Hautes Terres de L'Ouest Cameroun
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Democratic Republic of Congo

Matupi Cave Matupi Cave is a cave in the Mount Hoyo massif of the Ituri Rainforest, Democratic Republic of the Congo, where archaeologists have found evidence for Late Stone Age human occupation spanning over 40,000 years. The cave has some of the earliest evi ...

Thysville Caves The Thysville Caves are a cave complex in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, located near the town of Mbanza-Ngungu (formerly Thysville). The cave complex is fed by tributaries of the Lower Congo River, and extends across an area of 750 square ki ...

Egypt

Cave of Beasts The Cave of the Beasts (also named ''Foggini-Mestikawi Cave'' or ''Foggini Cave'' or ''Cave Wadi Sura II'') is a huge natural rock shelter in the Western Desert (Egypt), Western Desert of Geography of Egypt, Egypt featuring Neolithic rock paintin ...

* Cave of Swimmers * Jabal al-Ṭārif * Sannur Cave *

Magharet el Kantara Magharet el Kantara or Shaw's Cave ( ar, مغارة القنطرة, ''arched cave'') is a rock art shelter of the Gilf Kebir National Park in the New Valley Governorate, Egypt. Located on the south-western slopes of Gilf Kebir, it was discovered ...

Ethiopia

Sof Omar Caves Sof Omar Caves is the longest cave in Ethiopia at long. When surveyed in 1972, it was the longest cave in Africa. Since then explorations in Algeria (Rhar Bou Ma’za - the Tafna River Cave 18.4 km) and Madagascar (Ambatoharanana - Crocodile C ...

Gabon

Abanda Caves The Abanda Caves are a cave complex in Gabon, located in the upstream of Fernan Vaz Lagoon. They were first mentioned by Dr. Marco Marti and Claude Werotte in the early 2000s, and fully explored during several caving expeditions by Oslisly, Testa, ...

* Caves of Lastoursville *

Iroungou cave Iroungou Cave is a burial cave located near the city of Mouila in the Ngounié Province of Gabon. It is an archaeological site dating from pre-colonial Africa. It is a collective burial site with the remains of at least 28 people, and hundred ...

* Mbenaltembe cave Peyrot, Massala, 1987, Contribution à l'étude des systèmes karstiques gabonais. Les réseaux souterrains de la région de Lébamba (Gabon), Karstologia 9, pp. 37-44 * Faucon cave Marescaux, 1973, Les grottes du Gabon nord-oriental : un «Karst» dans l'oxyde de fer et la silice, Bulletin de l'Association de Géographes Français 410, pp. 607-618

Kenya

Enkapune Ya Muto Enkapune Ya Muto, also known as Twilight Cave, is a Late Stone Age site on the Mau Escarpment of Kenya. Beads made of perforated ostrich egg shells found at the site have been dated to 40,000 years ago. The beads found at the site represent the ...

Grotte de Leviathan Leviathan Cave, also known as the Grotte de Leviathan, is a lava tube in eastern Kenya first discovered in 1975. Although it has been segmented by the movement of tectonic plates, the overall length of the lava tube spans a distance of 11.5 km. ...

* Kitum Cave *

Leviathan Cave Leviathan Cave, also known as the Grotte de Leviathan, is a lava tube in eastern Kenya first discovered in 1975. Although it has been segmented by the movement of tectonic plates, the overall length of the lava tube spans a distance of 11.5 km ...

* Mau Mau Caves *

Njoro River Cave Njoro River Cave is an archaeological site on the Mau Escarpment, Kenya, that was first excavated in 1938 by Mary Leakey and her husband Louis Leakey. Excavations revealed a mass cremation site created by Elmenteitan pastoralists during the Pasto ...

Paradise Lost Caves Paradise Lost Caves are a cave system located in Kiambu County, Kenya. They were discovered officially by Joseph Mbai and some of his farmhands on his property in 1996. A National Museums of Kenya expedition uncovered human remains dated back 800 ...

Lesotho

* Kome Caves

Libya

Ain Zayanah Ain Zayanah is a protected area of Libya Libya (; ar, ليبيا, Lībiyā), officially the State of Libya ( ar, دولة ليبيا, Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean S ...

* Bukarma-Habibi * Umm al Masabih *

Haua Fteah Haua Fteah () is a large karstic cave located in the Cyrenaica in northeastern Libya. This site has been of significance to research on African archaeological history and anatomically modern human prehistory because it was occupied during the Mid ...

Madagascar

* Ambatoanjahana *

Ambatoharanana Ambatoharanana is a rural municipality in Madagascar. It belongs to the Districts of Madagascar, district of Fenerive Est District, Fenerive Est, which is a part of Analanjirofo region. The population of the commune was estimated to be approximat ...

* Ambatomanjahana *

Anjanamba cave Anjanamba is the name of a cave in South-Western Madagascar, Atsimo-Andrefana region, in the Mikea Forest. It is a fully submerged cave system that has been explored to more than 10km (in 2019) using cave diving techniques. It is the longest under ...

* Ampandrianpanihy Nord * Andetobe * Andriafiabe * Anjohin'ny Voamboana * Anjohy Ambalarano * Anjohy Kibojenjy * Antsatrabonko * Riviere souterraine de Mananjeba *

Marosakabe cave system The Marosakabe cave system is a cave in Marosalaza region, Madagascar, the longest in Africa. The cave is situated in northwestern part of Madagascar in the Mahajanga Province in Namoroka National Park, in a Tsingy area. It is characterized by an ...

Mauritania

Agrour Amogjar The Agrour Amogjar is a 690 m high peak near the Amogjar Pass, in the Adrar plateau of central Mauritania. Its small natural shelters house a rich collection of rock painting In archaeology, rock art is human-made markings placed on natural ...

Morocco

* Caves of Hercules * Friouato caves * Ifri N'hamed N'taouia *

Ifri Oudadane Ifri Oudadane is an archaeological site in the northeastern Rif region of Morocco. It is located on the southwestern coast of the Cape Three Forks on the Mediterranean Sea, and is one of the most important sites in the northwestern Maghreb region ...

Jebel Irhoud Jebel Irhoud or Adrar n Ighoud ( zgh, ⴰⴷⵔⴰⵔ ⵏ ⵉⵖⵓⴷ, Adrar n Iɣud; ar, جبل إيغود, žbəl iġud), is an archaeological site located just north of the locality known as Tlet Ighoud, approximately south-east of the cit ...

* Kef Aziza * Kef Tikhoubaï *

Kef Toghobeit Cave Kef Toghobeit is a karst cave near the settlement of Bab Taza in Chefchaouen Province, Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, in northern Morocco. Currently known to be long and deep, it is the deepest cave in Morocco, and the third deepest cave in Africa. ...

* Rhar Chara * Rhar Chiker *

Taforalt Taforalt or Grotte des Pigeons is a cave in the province of Berkane, Aït Iznasen region, Morocco, possibly the oldest cemetery in North Africa (Humphrey ''et al.'' 2012). It contained at least 34 Iberomaurusian adolescent and adult human skele ...

* Wit Tamdoun

Namibia

Apollo 11 Cave The Apollo 11 Cave is an archeological site in the ǁKaras Region of south-western Namibia, approximately southwest of Keetmanshoop. The name given to the surrounding area and presumably the cave by the Nama people was "Goachanas".John Mason, " ...

* Arnhem Cave *

Dragon's Breath Cave Dragon's Breath Cave was discovered by Roger Ellis during a caving expedition to the area in 1986. The cave is located northwest of Grootfontein in the Otjozondjupa Region of Namibia. It is named for the moist air rising from its entrance which r ...

* The White Lady

Nigeria

Amanchor Cave Amanchor Cave is located in the Etiti community of Edda, Afikpo South, in Enugu State of Nigeria. The cave is 4 km/2.5 miles in length. History According to Chief Boniface Agwuibe, the community head, said the cave was discovered by a hun ...

Ogbunike Caves The Ogbunike Caves are located in Ogbunike, Anambra State, southeastern Nigeria. Site description Located in a valley blanketed by tropical rain forest Tropical rainforests are rainforests that occur in areas of tropical rainforest climate ...

Réunion

Mussard cave The Mussard cave (French: Caverne Mussard) is a mountain cave on the island of Réunion. Located about 2150 meters above sea level in the heart of the , it falls within the municipality of Saint-Benoit. It is named after the slave hunter , who ...

Somaliland

Dhambalin Dhambalin ("half, vertically cut mountain") is an archaeological site in the central Sahil province of Somaliland. The sandstone rock shelter contains rock art depicting various animals such as horned cattle and goats, as well as giraffes, an ani ...

* Laas Geel

South Africa

* Blombos Cave *

Boesmansgat Boesmansgat, also known in English as "Bushman's Hole", is a deep submerged freshwater cave (or sinkhole) in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, which has been dived to a depth of . Boesmansgat was believed to have first been explored by ...

Boomplaas Cave Boomplaas Cave is located in the Cango Valley in the foothills of the Swartberg mountain range, north of Oudtshoorn, Eden District Municipality in the Western Cape Province, South Africa. It has a deep stratified archaeological sequence of huma ...

* Border Cave *

Burchell's Shelter Burchell’s Shelter is a small rock overhang and archaeological site located in a kloof in the Ghaap Escarpment at Campbell in the Northern Cape, South Africa. As an archaeological site it has a shallow deposit containing late Holocene, mainly n ...

* Cango Caves *

Cooper's Cave Cooper's Cave is a series of fossil-bearing breccia filled cavities. The cave is located almost exactly between the well known South African hominid-bearing sites of Sterkfontein and Kromdraai and about northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa an ...

* Diepkloof Rock Shelter *

Echo Caves The Echo Caves in Limpopo, South Africa, are set in Precambrian dolomite rock, which was first laid down about 3800 million years ago, when Africa was still part of Gondwana. The caves are considered some of the oldest in the world. The Ec ...

* Gladysvale Cave *

Gondolin Cave Gondolin Cave is a fossiliferous dolomitic paleocave system in the Northwest Province, South Africa. The paleocave formed in the Eccles Formation dolomites ( Malmani Subgroup, Chuniespoort Group carbonate-banded iron formation marine platform). G ...

Haasgat Haasgat is a fossiliferous South African paleocave located in the Cradle of Humankind UNESCO World Heritage Area, northeast of the hominin-bearing sites of Sterkfontein and Swartkrans and approx. north-northwest of the City of Johannesburg. ...

Howieson's Poort Shelter Howieson's Poort Shelter is a small rock shelter in South Africa containing the archaeological site from which the Howiesons Poort period in the Middle Stone Age gets its name. This period lasted around 5,000 years, between roughly 65,800 BP and ...

* Die Kelders * Klasies River Caves *

Kromdraai Fossil Site Kromdraai (means crooked turn in afrikaans) is a fossil-bearing breccia-filled cave located about east of the well-known South African hominid-bearing site of Sterkfontein and about northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is situated withi ...

* Makapansgat *

Malapa Fossil Site, Cradle of Humankind Malapa is a fossil-bearing cave located about northeast of the well known South African hominid-bearing sites of Sterkfontein and Swartkrans and about north-northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is situated within the Cradle of Human ...

Mapoch's Caves Mapoch's Caves is a provincial heritage site in Middelburg in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. In 1968 it was described in the Government Gazette A government gazette (also known as an official gazette, official journal, official new ...

Melkhoutboom Cave Melkhoutboom Cave is an archaeological site dating to the Later Stone Age, located in the Zuurberg Mountains, Cape Folded Mountain Belt, Sarah Baartman District Municipality in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. History Investigation of ...

* Motsetsi Cave *

Nelson Bay Cave Nelson Bay Cave also known as Wagenaar's Cave is a Stone Age archaeological site located in the Robberg Nature Reserve on the Robberg Peninsula and facing Nelson's Bay near Plettenberg Bay in South Africa, and showing evidence of human occupati ...

* Onmeetbarediepgat *

Pinnacle Point Pinnacle Point a small promontory immediately south of Mossel Bay, a town on the southern coast of South Africa. Excavations since the year 2000 of a series of caves at Pinnacle Point have revealed occupation by Middle Stone Age people between ...

* Plovers Lake * Rising Star Cave *

Sacred caves of the Basotho For thousands of years, a pilgrimage has been made by the Basotho people to a network of sacred caves to communicate with the spiritual world. The caves also contain dinosaur footprints and ancient rock paintings. The caves are located between the e ...

* Sibudu Cave *

Sterkfontein Sterkfontein (Afrikaans for ''Strong Spring'') is a set of limestone caves of special interest to paleo-anthropologists located in Gauteng province, about northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa in the Muldersdrift area close to the town of K ...

Sudwala Caves The Sudwala Caves in Mpumalanga, South Africa, are set in Precambrian dolomite rock, which was first laid down about 2800 million years ago. The caves themselves formed about 240 million years ago. They are the oldest caves in the world. T ...

* Taung * Witsie's Cave * Wonder Cave *

Wonderwerk Cave Wonderwerk Cave is an archaeological site, formed originally as an ancient solution cavity in dolomite rocks of the Kuruman Hills, situated between Danielskuil and Kuruman in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa. It is a National Heritage S ...

Tanzania

Amboni Caves The Amboni Caves are a limestone cave complex in East Africa. They are located 8 km north of Tanga City in Tanzania off the Tanga-Mombasa road. The reported length of the longest cave is 755m. The caves were formed about 150 million years a ...

* Grotte de Nduli *

Mumba Cave Mumba Cave, located near the highly alkaline Lake Eyasi in Karatu District, Arusha Region, Tanzania. The cave is a rich archaeological site noted for deposits spanning the transition between the Middle Stone Age and Late Stone Age in Eastern Afri ...

* Nandembo Cave System

Togo

Nok and Mamproug Cave Dwellings Located in the Tandjouaré Prefecture in the Savanes Region of northern Togo, Africa, the caves of Nôk and Mamproug contain shelter and refuge structures built between the 17th and 19th centuries mainly for defensive purposes. Site description ...

Tunisia

* Rhar Ain Et Tsab

Zambia

* Kalemba Rockshelter *

Mumbwa Caves The Mumbwa Caves are an archeological site in Zambia. The site has yielded artifacts that date from the Mesolithic, Neolithic and the Iron Age. The caves are a source of stratified, in situ deposits with faunal and human remains. Mumbwa, with it ...

Zimbabwe

Bambata cave Bambata Cave is one of the Southern Africa prehistoric sites situated in Motobo National Park along with Inanke, Nswatugi, Pomengwe and Silozwane caves in Zimbabwe. Location The Bambata cave is a huge archaeological cave located in the west pa ...

* Chinhoyi Caves *

Mabura Caves Mabura Guano Cave is a mine containing an accumulation of bat guano. It is located in Zhombe Mabura Ward 6 in the Midlands Province of Zimbabwe.Mark Mhukayesango (11 November 2015 Compound D Substitute Discovered In ZhombeRadio VOP. National New ...

* Mawenge Mwena Caves of Chimanimani

Asia

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Seven-star Cave Seven-star Cave () is an extensive limestone cave complex in Seven-star Park, both of which are popular tourist attractions in the city of Guilin in Guangxi Autonomous Region in China. The name derives from the fact the main karst limestone peaks ...

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formations, near Guilin in Guangxi Province, southern

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

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Dhal Al Misfir Cave In Indian cuisine, ''dal'' (also spelled ''daal'' or ''dhal''; pronunciation: , Hindi: दाल, Urdu: ) are dried, split pulses (e.g., lentils, peas, and beans) that do not require soaking before cooking. India is the largest producer of pu ...

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Hang Sơn Đoòng Sơn Đoòng cave ( vi, hang Sơn Đoòng, IPA: ), in Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park, Bố Trạch District, Quảng Bình Province, Vietnam, is one of the world's largest natural caves. Located near the Laos–Vietnam border, Hang Sơn Đ ...

's main passage is the largest known cave passage in the world.

Afghanistan

Darra-e Kur Darra-e Kūr or Bābā Darwīsh, is an archaeological site in Badakhshan province in Afghanistan. It is situated just northeast of Kalafgān near the village of Chinār-i Gunjus Khān east of Taloqan, on the road to Faizabad. The cave is situated ...

* Tora Bora *

Zhawar Kili Zhawar is an area within the Khost Province of Afghanistan. Zhawar Kili Jalaluddin Haqqani was (is) known by Afghani mujahideen as master of the Zhawar Kili cave complex. (B.G. Williams 2013). Mir Bahmanyar writes of the caves during 1986. ...

Cambodia

Laang Spean Laang Spean (; km, ល្អាងស្ពាន, ; "Cave of Bridges") refers to a prehistoric cave site on top of a limestone hill (''Phnom Teak Treang'') in Battambang Province, north-western Cambodia. The site's name ''Cave of Bridges'' hi ...

* Phnom Chhnork * Phnom Sampeau *

Phnom Sorsia Phnom Sorsia is a Buddhist hill complex in Kampot Province, southern Cambodia. It contains Buddhist cultural features approached by a staircase and a complex of karst caves. One cave ''Rung Damrey Saa'' ("White Elephant's Cave") has a stalagmite re ...

China

* Benxi Water Caves *

Bezeklik Caves The Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves (, Uyghur: بزقلیق مىڭ ئۆيى ) is a complex of Buddhist cave grottos dating from the 5th to 14th century between the cities of Turpan and Shanshan (Loulan) at the north-east of the Taklamakan Desert ...

Binghu Cave Binghu Cave () is a karst cave located some from Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China. Description Access to the site is via a flight of steps from the adjacent Shuanglong Cave. Together the two caves are known as the "Dra ...

Er Wang Dong Er Wang Dong () is a large cave in the Wulong Karst region, in Wulong County of Chongqing Municipality of China. Current known length of its passages is with a maximum depth of . It is large enough to contain its own weather system. The cave star ...

* Fu Yuan Dong *

Furong Cave Furong Cave () is a karst cave located on the banks of the Furong River, from the seat of Wulong District, Chongqing, People's Republic of China. History First discovered by local farmers in 1993 the cave was opened to tourists in 1994. It beca ...

Fuyan Cave Fuyan Cave () is a complex of limestone caves in Tangbei village, Lefutang town, Daoxian, Hunan province, south central China famous for the discovery of the oldest evidence for unambiguously fully modern humans outside Africa. 47 human teeth, dat ...

* Gebihe cave system *

Hongqingsi Grottoes Hongqing Temple Grotto () is located in Yima, Henan. It consists of five caves, with a total of 46 shrines. More than 120 statues were chiseled during the Northern Wei Dynasty Wei (), known in historiography as the Northern Wei (), Tuoba Wei ...

* Huanglong Cave *

Jiangzhou Cave System Jiangzhou Cave System () is a cave system near Jiangzhou township, in Fengshan County, Guangxi, China. This cave has several entrances, with a total of of passages having been surveyed. It has an active series running approximately below the fo ...

Jiguan Cave Jiguan Cave is located at Luoyang city in Henan province, China. This cave is on the medium of Jiguan mountain, a branch of Funiu mountain, at an altitude of 1201 meters. According to experts' research, Jiguan Cave formed about 600 million years ag ...

Kizil Caves The Kizil Caves ( zh, t=克孜爾千佛洞, s=克孜尔千佛洞, l=Kizil Caves of the Thousand Buddhas; ug, قىزىل مىڭ ئۆي, translation=The Thousand Red Houses; also romanized Qizil Caves, spelling variant Qyzyl; Kizil means 'red') ar ...

Kumtura Caves The Kumtura Thousand Buddha Caves ( zh, t=庫木吐喇千佛洞, s=, p=Kùmùtǔlǎ Qiānfódòng) (also Qumtura) is a Buddhist cave temple site in the Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, China. The site is located some 25 km west of Kucha, Kuqa Co ...

Lobster Cave Lobster Cave is a cave on Liuqiu Island, off Pingtung County, Taiwan. Name "Lobster Cave" is a calque of the cave's Chinese name. It supposedly derives from lobsters who lived there over a century ago that were driven out by the island's resid ...

Longgu Cave The Longgu Cave (), literally meaning "Dragon Bone Cave", also known as Giant Ape Cave, is a cave located in Longgu Slope, Jintang Village, Gaoping Town, Jianshi County, Enshi City, Hubei Province. It is 120 meters long, 6 to 7 meters high and 2 ...

Longyou Caves The Longyou Caves (), also called the Xiaonanhai Stone Chambers (), are a group of 24 artificial sandstone caverns located at Fenghuang Hill, near the village of Shiyan Beicun on the Qu River in Longyou County, Quzhou prefecture, Zhejiang provinc ...

Luobi Cave Luobi Cave () is a karst cave under the west face of Yin Ridge () located north east of Lizhigou Town (), from Sanya City, Hainan Province, People's Republic of China. Features The entrance to the cave is approximately high and wide. Insid ...

Macaque Cave The Macaque Cave () is a karst cave located on the Macaque Ridge (猕猴岭) outside Dongfang City, Hainan, People's Republic of China. Description The cave covers an area of whilst at the entrance there are densely packed '' Sindora glabra' ...

Reed Flute Cave The Reed Flute Cave (), also known as "the Palace of Natural Arts," is a landmark and tourist attraction in Guilin, Guangxi, China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most ...

San Wang Dong San Wang Dong is a large Karst cave in the Wulong Karst formation region, located within Wulong County of Chongqing Municipality in China. Geography The current known combined length of its passages is long. San Wang Dong has numerous large cave ...

Sanmenhai Sanmenhai is a cave in the Leye-Fengshan geopark in Guangxi, China. The cave is unique in that it features seven skylights that mimic the layout of the constellation Ursa Major (the Big Dipper). Etymology ''Sanmenhai'' translates into English a ...

Shanjuan Cave Yixing Shanjuan Cave is located at the south-west of Yixing, 25 kilometres away in Luoyan Mountain. It is the earliest cave tourist attractions in China managed by Yangxian Scenic Spot Tourism Development Company. Introduction Shanjuan Cave, Han ...

Shuanghedong Cave Network Shuanghedong (), is the longest cave in China, in Asia, and the 5th longest in the world in 2020. It is located near the town of Wenquan in Suiyang County, Guizhou Province. This gypsum and dolomite cave has carbon dioxide levels of approximate ...

Shuanglong Cave Shuanglong Cave () is a water-filled karst cave some from Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China. Description The cave is high and long with a total area in excess of . Formed around 100 million years ago, the entrance is f ...

Silver Cave Silver Cave () is a national AAAA level scenic spot in Lipu County, Guilin City, Guangxi Province of China, 85 km from Guilin and 18 km away from Yangshuo. Silver Cave lies in typical karst landscape, running through 12 hills. The cave i ...

Snowy Jade Cave Snowy Jade Cave (a.k.a. Snow Jade Cave or Xueyu Cave, ) is a National Three Gorges Scenic Area and a National 4A Scenic Area located in Fengdu County, Chongqing Municipality, People's Republic of China, not far from the Yangtze River. Descript ...

Taiji Cave Taiji Cave () is a karst cave located on Shilong Mountain () in Guangde County, Xuancheng City, Anhui Province, People's Republic of China, where the provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui meet. Ming Dynasty writer and poet Feng Menglong describe ...

* Tenglong Cave *

Tianyuan Cave Tianyuan Cave () is near Beijing, where Tianyuan man, one of the earliest modern humans, was found. The remains in the Tianyuan Cave have ancestral relations "to many present-day Asians and Native Americans". See also * Niah Caves * Fuyan Cave ...

* Xianren Cave *

Yilong Cave Yilong Cave () is a 180-million-year-old karst cave located in Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province, People's Republic of China. Also known as Nielong Cave (孽龙洞/孽龍洞 literally ''evil dragon cave''), the cave extends to around in length. In ...

Yiyuan Rong Cave Group The Yiyuan Rong Cave Group () is a cluster of Ordovician limestone caves in the area under the administration of the city of Zibo, Shandong Province, China. Rong Cave proper (, ) is the namesake of the cave group. It is located about to the nort ...

* Yuchanyan Cave * Yuhuangdong Grottoes * Zhijin Cave * Zhong Cave *

Zhoukoudian Zhoukoudian Area () is a town and an area located on the east Fangshan District, Beijing, China. It borders Nanjiao and Fozizhuang Townships to its north, Xiangyang, Chengguan and Yingfeng Subdistricts to its east, Shilou and Hangcunhe Towns to ...

* Zengpiyan Cave * Zhiren Cave

East Timor

Lene Hara cave The Lena Hara cave is the main cave of a system of solutional caves in the Lautém District at the eastern tip of East Timor (Timor-Leste), close to the village of Tutuala. Others are ''Ile Kére Kére'' and ''Jerimalai''. Lene Hara has provided ...

India

Ajanta Caves The Ajanta Caves are approximately thirty rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments dating from the second century BCE to about 480 CE in the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra state in India. The caves include paintings and rock-cut sculptures des ...

* Amarnath Cave Temple *

Badami Cave Temples The Badami cave temples are a complex of Hindu and Jain cave temples located in Badami, a town in the Bagalkot district in northern part of Karnataka, India. The caves are important examples of Indian rock-cut architecture, especially Badami ...

* Bagh Caves * Barabar Caves *

Belum Caves The Belum Caves, located in Nandyala district of Andhra Pradesh's Rayalaseema region, is the second largest cave system on the Indian subcontinent, known for its speleothems, such as stalactite and stalagmite formations. The Belum Caves h ...

Borra Caves The Borra Caves (also called ''Borra Guhalu'') are located on the East Coast of India, in the Ananthagiri hills of the Araku Valley (with hill ranges' elevation varying from ) of the Alluri Sitharama Raju district in Andhra Pradesh. The caves ...

Caves of Meghalaya The Caves of Meghalaya comprise a large number of caves in the Jaintia, Khasi Hills, and Garo Hills districts in the Indian state of Meghalaya, and are amongst the longest caves in the world. Of the ten longest and deepest caves in India, the ...

* Edakkal Caves *

Elephanta Caves The Elephanta Caves are a collection of cave temples predominantly dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva. They are on Elephanta Island, or ''Gharapuri'' (literally "the city of caves"), in Mumbai Harbour, east of Mumbai in the Indian state of Mahār ...

Ellora Caves Ellora is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra, India. It is one of the largest rock-cut Hindu temple cave complexes in the world, with artwork dating from the period 600–1000 CE., Quote: "These 34 m ...

Erravaram Caves Erravaram Caves are located on the left bank of Yeleru river, at a distance of 45 km from Rajahmundry on Vishakhapatnam , image_alt = , image_caption = From top, left to right: Visakhapatnam aerial view, Viza ...

Guntupalli Caves The Guntupalle or Guntupalli Group of Buddhist Monuments is located near Kamavarapukota, Eluru district, in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. It is around 40 km away from Eluru. The rock-cut part of the site has two Buddhist caves, a ...

* Jogeshwari Caves *

Kailash Caves Mount Kailash (also Kailasa; ''Kangrinboqê'' or ''Gang Rinpoche''; Tibetan: གངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ; ; sa, कैलास, ), is a mountain in the Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It has an altitude of ...

* Kanheri Caves *

Karla Caves The Karla Caves, Karli Caves, Karle Caves or Karla Cells, are a complex of ancient Buddhist Indian rock-cut caves at Karli near Lonavala, Maharashtra. It is just 10.9 Kilometers away from Lonavala. Other caves in the area are Bhaja Caves, P ...

* Kotumsar Cave *

Krem Liat Prah Krem Liat Prah is the longest natural cave in South Asia. Prah ( is the Khasi word for "cave") is one of approximately 150 known caves in the Shnongrim Ridge of the East Jaintia Hills district in the state of Meghalaya, northeast India In ...

* Krem Synrang Pamiang *

Lakhudiyar Caves The Lakhudiyar Caves are located in the Barechhina village at the banks of the Suyal River in the Almora district of Uttarakhand. On the walls of the caves are paintings depicting animals, humans and also tectiforms, created with fingers in black, ...

Lenyadri Lenyadri, sometimes called Ganesa Lena, Ganesh Pahar Caves, are a series of about 30 rock-cut Buddhist caves, located about north of Junnar in Pune district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Other caves surrounding the city of Junnar are: M ...

* Lohani Caves *

Mahakali Caves The Kondivite Caves, also Mahakali Caves, are a group of 19 rock-cut monuments built between 1st century BCE and 6th century CE. This Buddhist monastery is located in the eastern suburb of Andheri in the city of Mumbai (Bombay) in western Ind ...

Mandapeshwar Caves ''The Mandapeshwar Caves'' ( mr, मंडपेश्वर गुहा) is an 8th Century rock-cut shrine dedicated to Shiva located near Mount Poinsur in Borivali, a suburb of Mumbai in Maharashtra, India. The caves were originally Buddhist ...

Moghalrajpuram caves The Mogalrajapuram Caves are five rock-cut cave temple groups located in different parts of Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India. Dedicated to Shiva, they were excavated during the Eastern Chalukya reign or the Vishnukundins reign. They are genera ...

Pandavleni Caves The Nasik Caves, or Trirashmi Leni (''Trirashmi'' being the name of the hills in which the caves are located, ''Leni'' being a Marathi word for caves), are a group of 23 caves carved between the 1st century BCE and the 3rd century CE, though a ...

Patal Bhuvaneshwar Patal Bhuvaneshwar (Hindi पाताल भुवनेश्वर) is a limestone cave temple 14 km from Gangolihat in the Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand state in India. It is located in the village of Bhubneshwar. Legend and folkl ...

* Robber's Cave * Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka *

Siju Cave Siju Cave, also known as Bat Cave in English, is located in the North East Indian state of Meghalaya near the Napak Lake and Simsang River game reserve. It is a limestone cave and is famous for its stalagmites and stalactites. The Siju ca ...

Umachal rock cave The Umachal rock cave is a fifth-century rock cave with inscriptions discovered in Kalipur, Guwahati in February 2012. The inscriptions were done during the rule of king Mahendra Varman of Kamarupa. The interior side of the cave measures 6.26x5.02 ...

* Undavalli caves *

Varaha Cave Temple Varaha Cave Temple (i.e., Varaha Mandapa or the Adivaraha Cave) is a rock-cut cave temple located at Mamallapuram, on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal in Kancheepuram District in Tamil Nadu, India. It is part of the hill top village, whi ...

Indonesia

* Buniayu Cave *

Caves in the district of Maros The caves in the Maros-Pangkep karst are situated in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and contain paintings from the Paleolithic considered to be the earliest figurative art in the world, dated to at least 43,900 years ago. Description The caves in t ...

Harimau Cave Harimau Cave or Tiger Cave is a limestone cavern in the Indonesian island of Sumatra where the island's first known rock art has been discovered. The cave also held 66 skeletons of farmers from 3,000 years ago. Archaeology The archaeological ...

* Liang Bua Cave * Lokale *

Lubang Jeriji Saléh Lubang Jeriji Saleh is a limestone cave complex in Indonesia in the Sangkulirang-Mangkalihat Karst located in the remote jungle of Bengalon district in East Kutai, East Kalimantan province on Borneo island. In a 2018 publication a team of resear ...

* Maharani cave *

Mirror Stone Cave Mirror stone cave (or ''Goa Batu Cermin'' in Indonesian) is a cave or tunnel located in a rock hill in West Manggarai Regency, West Manggarai, Flores, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, just a few kilometers to the east of the town of Labuan Bajo. The ...

Pettakere cave The caves in the Maros-Pangkep karst are situated in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and contain paintings from the Paleolithic considered to be the earliest figurative art in the world, dated to at least 43,900 years ago. Description The caves ...

* Pindul Cave

Iran

Ali-Sadr Cave The Ali-Sadr Cave ( fa, غار علی‌صدر), originally called Ali Saadr or Ali Sard (meaning cold), is the world's largest water cave which attracts thousands of visitors every year. It is located in Ali Sadr Kabudarahang County about 100& ...

* Bisitun Cave *

Darband Cave Darband Cave is a Lower Paleolithic site in the Gilan Province in northern Iran, located on the north side of a deep tributary canyon of the Siahrud River, a tributary of the Sefīd-Rūd River that flows into the Caspian Sea. The cave contains ...

Dashkasan Dashkasan ( az, Daşkəsən, fa, داشکسن) is a three cave complex located south-east of Soltaniyeh. Outside the caves there is a temple called Dragon Stone of Dash Kasan Caves which was built by order of Mongol king Öljaitü in the early ...

Deragon Cave The Deragon Cave is a cave in Khorasan, located in South Khorasan South Khorasan Province ( fa, استان خراسان جنوبی ''Ostān-e Khorāsān-e Jonūbī'') is a province located in eastern Iran. Birjand is the centre of the province. ...

Do-Ashkaft Cave The Do-Ashkaft Cave, being a Middle Paleolithic cave site, is located north of Kermanshah, near Taq-e Bostan, Iran about above sea level. Its entrance faces south of Meywala Mount, overlooking the national park of Kuhestan. The site was first ...

Eshkaft-e Salman Eshkaft-e Salman or ''Shekaft-e Salman'' Location On the southwest side of the valley, 2.5 km from the town center of Izeh, southwest Iran, is the majestic “''romantic grotto''” of Shekaft-e Salman (“Salomon’s Cave”) where a ...

Eshkaft-e Siahoo Eshkaft-e Siahoo ( fa, اشکفت سیاهو), that translates to "Black Cave" from the regional dialect, was used by Neolithic humans as a rock shelter between 12,000 and 10,000-years ago. It is located near Rahmat Mountain on the Marvdasht Pla ...

Ghar Parau Porow Cave is a limestone cave in the Zagros Mountains, north of Kermanshah in Western Iran. At 751 m deep, it is the deepest cave in Iran. Joujar Cave has been reported as the second deepest, at 568 m deep. History A British-led caving expedit ...

* Ghar-e-Pariyan *

Ghar-e-Roodafshan The Roodafshan Cave, or Ghar-e Roodafshan, is a solutional cave located in Roodafshan valley, Damavand County, Tehran Province, Iran, in the Alborz mountains. Since 2003 the Verein für Höhlenkunde in Obersteier (Austria) with the Khaneye Koohna ...

Huto and Kamarband Caves The Hotu and Kamarband Caves or Belt Caves are prehistoric archaeological sites in Iran. They are located apart, in a cliff on the slopes of the Alborz mountains in the village of Toroujen (currently called Shahid Abad), south west of Behshahr ...

Kalahrod Kalahrod cave (pronounced as /uː/, most commonly Romanized as Kalahrud or Kalahroud) or Ghar-e-Chah-e-Vazmeh is a cave in Iran, situated in Isfahan Province at an elevation of above sea level. It is north of the village of Kalahrod and appr ...

Karaftu The Karaftu caves ( fa, کرفتو,) are an ensemble of artificially cut rock chambers located between Saqqez and Divandarreh, Kurdistan Province, Iran. The cave complex dates back to the 3rd or 4th century BC and is of major importance due to i ...

* Katale Khor *

Mahi Kur Cave Mahi Kur Cave is a cave located in Lorestan province in Papi district, near a village called Levan. This cave is the only national natural monument of Lorestan province and was registered in 2006. There are two rare and unique specimens of blind ...

* Nakhcheer *

Qaleh Bozi Qal'eh Bozi is a complex of caves sites located about south-southwest of Isfahan, Iran; northeast of Dizicheh and north of Hassanabad. The sites include two rock shelters and a cave located at altitudes between above sea level. The caves are fou ...

* Quri Qale Cave *

Roodafshan Cave The Roodafshan Cave, or Ghar-e Roodafshan, is a solutional cave located in Roodafshan valley, Damavand County, Tehran Province, Iran, in the Alborz mountains. Since 2003 the Verein für Höhlenkunde in Obersteier (Austria) with the Khaneye Koohna ...

Shafaq cave Shafaq is a cave located 140 km east of Shiraz, near Meymand, Iran. It is a caving destination in Fars province that features stalagmites and stalactites, and lies within a mountain with two entrances eastward into the cave. The cave is note ...

Shapur cave Shapur cave/ Shapour cave ( fa, غار شاپور) is located in the Zagros Mountains, in southern Iran, about 6 km from the ancient city of Bishapur. This cave is near Kazerun in the Chogan valley, which was the site of polo (Persian ''čō ...

* Shirabad cave *

Wezmeh The Wezmeh Cave is an archaeological site near Islamabad Gharb, western Iran, around southwest of the capital Tehran. The site was discovered in 1999 and excavated in 2001 by a team of Iranian archaeologists under the leadership of Dr. Kamyar ...

Yafteh Yafteh is an Upper Paleolithic cave located at the foot of Yafteh Mountain in the Zagros Mountains range, located northwest of Khoramabad in western Zagros, Lorestan Province of western Iran. Description Yafteh has yielded the largest number of ...

Iraq

* Shanidar Cave

Israel

* Avshalom Cave * Ayalon Cave * Azekah Caves *

Beit She'arim (moshav) Beit She'arim ( he, בֵּית שְׁעָרִים, ''lit.'' House of Gates) is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the Galilee near Ramat Yishai, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council. As of it had a population o ...

Cave of Elijah Cave of Elijah is the name used for two grottoes on Mount Carmel, in Haifa, Israel, associated with Biblical prophet Elijah. According to tradition, Elijah is believed to have prayed at a grotto before challenging the priests of Baal on Mount ...

* Cave of Horror * Cave of Letters *

Cave of Nicanor The Cave of Nicanor (; ) is an ancient burial cave located on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem. Among the ossuaries discovered in the cave is one with an inscription referring to "Nicanor the door maker".Clermont-Ganneau, "Archeological and epigraphi ...

* Es Skhul * HaYonim Cave * Horvat Midras *

Kebara Cave Kebara Cave ( he, מערת כבארה, Me'arat Kebbara, ar, مغارة الكبارة, Mugharat al-Kabara) is a limestone cave locality in Wadi Kebara, situated at above mean sea level, above sea level on the western escarpment of the Mount Car ...

Keshet Cave The Keshet Cave ( he, מערת קשת, Rainbow Cave, also Qeshet Cave) is a natural arch on a ridge by the northern bank of Betzet Stream, Upper Galilee, Israel, in the area of the , in the Betzet Stream Nature Reserve, close to the border with L ...

* Komotayim cave
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Malcham cave Entry of the cave Inside the cave, and some salt Stalactites The longest salt cave in the world. located in Mount Sodom, by the Dead Sea, Israel. In March 2019 it has been revealed, by an international team, led by the Israeli geologist profes ...

* Mankhir Cave *

Manot Cave Manot Cave ( ''Me'arat Manot'') is a cave in Western Galilee, Israel, discovered in 2008. It is notable for the discovery of a skull that belongs to a modern human, called Manot 1, which is estimated to be 54,700 years old (U–Th dating of the ...

* Nahal Me'arot * Pa'ar Cave * Qesem Cave *

Rosh HaNikra grottoes Rosh HaNikra or Hanikra ( he, ראש הנקרה, "Head of the Grotto"; ar, رأس الناقورة, Ras an-Nakura) is a geologic formation on the border between Israel and Lebanon, located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, in the Wes ...

* Salt Colonel Cave *

Tabun Cave The Tabun Cave is an excavated site located at Nahal Me'arot Nature Reserve, Israel and is one of the Human Evolution sites at Mount Carmel, which were proclaimed as having universal value by UNESCO in 2012. History Together with the nearby s ...

* Tel Maresha

Japan

Abukuma-do Abukuma-do (あぶくま洞 - Abukuma Cave) is a limestone cave located in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. The cave was discovered on August 15, 1969, northeast of the city of Tamura, Fukushima, Tamura and was originally named Kamayama Shonyu-do ( ...

(阿武隈洞) * Akiyoshi-do (秋芳洞) *

Akkadō is a limestone cavern located in the town of Iwaizumi, Iwate Prefecture in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan. It has a measured length of , which makes it the longest in Japan.

(安家洞) * Kyusen-do (球泉洞) *

Reigandō is a cave that lies to the west of Kumamoto, Japan, that became a temporary home to the legendary rōnin, Miyamoto Musashi. From 1643, Musashi spent many of his last months in the cave, meditating and writing his ''Book of Five Rings''. The cave i ...

* Uchimagi-do (内間木洞) *

Shiraho Saonetabaru Cave Ruins is a paleoanthropological site located on Ishigaki Island of the Yaeyama Islands in Japan. Shiraho Saonetabaru is a limestone cave. It was discovered in 2007 when plans for the New Ishigaki Airport were being developed. Remains of human heads, ...

Jordan

Iraq ed-Dubb Iraq ed-Dubb, or the Cave of the Bear, is an early Neolithic archeological site northwest of Ajlun in the Jordan Valley, in modern-day Jordan. The settlement existed before 8,000 BCE and experimented with the cultivation of founder crops, side ...

Kazakhstan

Akbaur cave Akbaur cave ( kk, Ақбауыр үңгірі, ''Aqbaýyr úńgiri'') is one of the monuments of the Bronze Age, located in East Kazakhstan East Kazakhstan Region ( kk, Шығыс Қазақстан облысы, translit=Şyğys Qazaqstan oblysy; ...

* Boj-Boulok * Rangkul'skaja Cave

Korea

Geomunoreum Lava Tube System The Geomunoreum Lava Tube System is located between Seonheul-ri, Jocheon-eup and Weoljeong-ri, Gujwa-eup, Jeju City, Jeju-do. This lava tube system refers to a series of lava tubes formed while basaltic lava flow which had erupted several times ...

Gimnyeonggul The Gimnyeonggul Lava Tube, located in Donggimnyeong-ri, Gujwa-eup, Jeju City, is one of the World Heritage Sites in South Korea. The lava tube is about 705 m long, and is believed to be separated from Manjanggul Lava Tube by lava flows. The ...

Gosu Cave Gosu Cave (고수동굴 - Kosu is also still found as an alternate spelling) is a huge limestone cave near Danyang, Chungcheongbuk-do, Danyang (North Chungcheong Province), South Korea formed over 450 million years ago. It is among the best known n ...

* Gwangmyeong Cave *

Hwanseon Cave Hwanseon Cave (환선굴) is a cave located in Gangwon province, South Korea. Description Hwanseon Cave is the longest limestone cave in Korea, with of known passages and a total suspected length of , of which are visited by over 1 million p ...

Jeju Volcanic Island and Lava Tubes The Jeju Volcanic Island and Lava Tubes is a World Heritage Site in South Korea. It was inscribed as one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2007 because of the Geomunoreum Lava Tube System and the exhibition of diverse and accessible volcanic ...

Komun Moru The Komun Moru ruins are "primitive relics" discovered in Sangwon County, Pyongyang, North Korea. Many of the relics are on display at the Korean Central History Museum in Pyongyang. The relics were located in a cave, and have been dated to the U ...

Manjanggul The Manjanggul Lava Tube is located in Gimnyeong-ri, Gujwaeup, Jeju City. At up to 23 metres (75') wide, 30 metres (100') high and 8.928 km (5½ miles) long, it is the 12th-longest lava tube in the worldhttp://www.caverbob.com/lava.htm and ...

Songam Cavern Songam Cavern is a major tourist venue in North Korea. It consists of 17 well-lit karst caves full of picturesque stone formations including stalactites and stalagmites. The cavern is located in Kaech'ŏn-si, South Pyongan Province. Among the ...

Laos

Chom Ong Chom Ong Cave is a cave system located in Oudomxay Province, in the north of Laos. Featuring a length of more of 16 km, it ranks now as the longest cave in Northern Laos and is one of the top 10 in all Laos. Naming The villagers of Ban Cho ...

Pak Ou Caves Near Pak Ou (mouth of the Ou river) the Tham Ting (lower cave) and the Tham Theung (upper cave) are caves overlooking the Mekong River, 25 km to the north of Luang Prabang, Laos. They are a group of two caves on the west side of the Mekong rive ...

Tam Pa Ling Cave Tam Pa Ling (''Cave of the Monkeys'') is a cave in the Annamite Mountains in north-eastern Laos. It is situated at the top of Pa Hang Mountain, above sea level. Three hominin fossils have been discovered in the cave: ''TPL1'', a skull belongin ...

Tham Jang Tham Jang is a cave just to the southwest of Vang Vieng, Laos. Approached by a bridge over the Nam Song River The Nam Song River, also transliterated as Nam Xong, is a small river in Laos that flows through the town of Vang Vieng. It is a popula ...

* Tham Kong Lo *

Tham Non Tham Non is a cave to the north of Vang Vieng, Laos. It is located in close proximity to the Nam Song River The Nam Song River, also transliterated as Nam Xong, is a small river in Laos that flows through the town of Vang Vieng. It is a popular to ...

* Tham Pha *

Tham Phu Kham Tham Phu Kham is a cave to the northwest of Vang Vieng, Laos Laos (, ''Lāo'' )), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ, Frenc ...

Tham Sang Triangle The Tham Sang Triangle refer to a group of four caves in close proximity, located roughly north of Vang Vieng, Laos, to the northwest of the village of Ban Pakpo. The four caves are Tham Sang, Tham Hoi, Tham Loup, and Tham Nam. The name "Tham Sang ...

Viengxay caves The Viengxay caves in Houaphanh Province of north-eastern Laos are an extensive network of caves in limestone mountains. Four-hundred eighty of these caves were used by the Pathet Lao during the Second Indochina War to shelter from American bombardm ...

Lebanon

* Antelias cave * Jeita Grotto *

Nachcharini The Nachcharini cave is located at a height of on the ''Nachcharini Plateau'' in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains near the Lebanese/Syrian border and among the most elevated Natufian and Khiamian hunter-gatherer occupation sites found to date. Moderat ...

* Kaukaba *

Ksar Akil Ksar Akil (also Ksar 'Akil or Ksar Aqil) is an archeological site northeast of Beirut in Lebanon. It is located about west of Antelias spring on the north bank of the northern tributary of the Wadi Antelias. It is a large rock shelter below ...

Ras Baalbek I Ras Baalbek I ( ar, رأس بعلبك) is a rock shelter east of Ras Baalbek in the northern Beqaa Valley in Lebanon. It sits north of the Wadi Teniyet er-Râs valley at a height of . It was first discovered by Lorraine Copeland and Peter Wes ...

Ras El Kelb Ras El Kelb is a truncated seaside cave and Paleolithic settlement located on the low-lying () coast of Lebanon, north of Beirut. It is one of the oldest habitations found in the country. Rescue excavations were carried out in 1959 by Dorothy Gar ...

Malaysia

Batu Caves Batu Caves ( ta, பத்து மலை : Pathumalai) is a mogote (a type of karst landform) that has a series of caves and cave temples in Gombak, Selangor, Malaysia. It takes its name from the Malay word ''batu'', meaning 'rock'. The hill ...

Biocyclone Cave Biocyclone Cave is a cave in Gunung Buda National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states ...

Clearwater Cave The Clearwater Cave System ( ms, Gua Air Jernih) in Gunung Mulu National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia is believed to be one of the largest interconnected cave systems in the world by volume and the 9th longest cave in the world at (2020). The system l ...

Deer Cave Deer Cave ( ms, Gua Rusa), located near Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia, is a show cave attraction of Gunung Mulu National Park. It was surveyed in 1961 by G. E. Wilford of the British Borneo Geological Survey, who predicted that Mulu would yield many ...

Gomantong Cave The Gomantong Caves are an intricate cave system inside Gomantong Hill in Sandakan Division, Sabah, Malaysia. The hill is the largest limestone outcrop in the Lower Kinabatangan area. Description Situated in the Gomantong Forest Reserve, the ca ...

* Gua Tempurung *

Niah Caves Niah National Park, located within Miri Division, Sarawak, Malaysia, is the site of the Niah Caves limestone cave and archeological site. History Alfred Russel Wallace lived for 8 months at Simunjan District with a mining engineer, Robert Co ...

Sam Poh Tong zh, 三寶洞 , image = , caption = Front view of the temple , location = Ipoh , coordinates = , religious_affiliation = Buddhism , district = , state = P ...

* Sarawak Chamber

Mongolia

* Dayan Deerh Cave * Galtai Cave * Khoit Tsenkher Cave * Taliin Cave * Tsagaan Cave

Myanmar

Padah-Lin Caves Padah-Lin Caves ( my, ဗဒလင်းဂူ, ; also Padalin or Badalin) are limestone caves located in Taunggyi District, Shan State, Burma (Myanmar). It is located near a path from Nyaunggyat to Yebock, on a spur of the Nwalabo mountains wit ...

Peik Chin Myaung Cave Peik Chin Myaung (ပိတ်ချင်းမြောင်လိုဏ်ဂူ) is a limestone stalactite cave situated south of Wetwun village, 23 km from Pyin Oo Lwin, Myanmar. The cave is a tourist site on the Lashio road. History The ...

Phowintaung Phowintaung ( my, ဖိုလ်ဝင်တောင် , also spelt as Hpowindaung, Powintaung, Po Win Taung) is a Buddhist cave complex located approximately west of Monywa and southeast of Yinmabin, in Yinmabin Township, Monywa District, ...

Pindaya Caves The Pindaya Caves ( my, ပင်းတယရွှေဥမင်, ; officially ), located next to the town of Pindaya, Shan State, Burma (Myanmar) are a Buddhist pilgrimage site and a tourist attraction located on a limestone ridge in the Myela ...

Nepal

Chobhar caves Chobhar caves are an extensive network of natural phreatic caves near the village of Chobhar, which is located 9 km southwest of Kathmandu, Nepal. Chobhar is also known for the Chobhar gorge through which all the water of the valley drains ...

* Gupteswor cave *

Mahendra Cave Mahendra Cave is a cave located in Pokhara-16,batulechaur, Kaski district, close to the Kali khola, is a large limestone cave. It is a rare example of a cave system in Nepal containing stalagmites and stalactites. This show cave attracts thous ...

Maratika Cave The Halesi-Maratika Caves (also the Haleshi Mahadev temple) are located next to the village of Mahadevasthan, in the Khotang District of eastern Nepal, 3,100 ft. – 4,734 ft. above sea level. The cave and temple are about 185 km s ...

Mustang Caves Mustang Caves or Sky Caves of Nepal are a collection of some 10,000 man-made caves dug into the sides of valleys in the Mustang District of Nepal. Several groups of archaeologists and researchers have explored these stacked caves and found partia ...

* Siddha cave

Oman

Al Hoota Cave Al Hoota Cave ( ar, كَهْف ٱلْهُوْتَه, Kahf Al-Hūtah) is a cave located in Al-Hamra', Ad Dakhiliyah Governorate, Oman Oman ( ; ar, عُمَان ' ), officially the Sultanate of Oman ( ar, سلْطنةُ عُمان ), is an A ...

Majlis al Jinn Majlis al Jinn, also ''Majlis al-Jinn'' ( ar, مجلس الجن, ) is the second-largest known cave chamber in the world, as measured by the surface area of the floor. It ranks lower when measured by volume. The cave is located in a remote are ...

Pakistan

* Bazar Caves * Pir Ghaib Gharr Gharra *

Kashmir Smast The Kashmir Smast ( ur, ) caves, also called Kashmir Smats (), are a series of natural limestone caves, artificially expanded from the Kushan to the Shahi periods, situated in the Babuzai Sakrah mountains in the Katlang Valley Mardan in Northe ...

Sanghao Cave Sanghao Cave is a Paleolithic site, located on the Pothohar Plateau of Pakistan that was excavated by Ahmad Hasan Dani. Site The cave is located near Peshawar in the Mardan District of northern Pakistan at an altitude of . The cave is often re ...

Papua New Guinea

Afawa Cave Afawa Cave is a karst cave located in Doe, Central Province, Papua New Guinea. It is very remote; the most common way to access the cave is by an 80 km, two-day trek. From Doe, it is a one-hour steep climb to reach the altitudinous cave, w ...

Atea Cave The Atea Cave is a very large cave at the base of a 300 m deep Sinkhole, doline in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. It is the second longest cave on the island. Exploration of the cave started in 1973 when the Niugini Speleological Research Expe ...

Diu Diu Cave Diu Diu Cave is a karst cave located in Waigani, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. Traversing through the cave is very difficult; it involves wading through mud and guano with a low ceiling that at times dips to 80cm clearance. The cave is ho ...

Kilu Cave Kilu Cave is a paleoanthropological site located on Buka Island in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. Kilu Cave is located at the base of a limestone cliff, from the modern coastline. With evidence for human occupation datin ...

Tawali Skull Cave Tawali Skull Cave is a karst cave located near Bilubilu, Alotau, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. The cave receives its name from an ancient native practice: when revered or beloved people die, they would be buried upright with a clay pot pl ...

Philippines

* Adiangao Cave *

Callao Cave Callao Cave () is one of 300 limestone caves located in the Barangays of Magdalo and Quibal in the municipality of Peñablanca, about northeast of Tuguegarao City, the capital of Cagayan province within the Peñablanca Protected Landscape and ...

Caves in Misamis Oriental Misamis Oriental can be found in Northern Mindanao, Philippines. It is divided into twenty-three municipalities and two main cities. Its capital, Cagayan de Oro, is an urbanized location and independently governs itself from Misamis Oriental. ...

* Guyangan Cave System * Hinagdanan Cave * Huluga Caves *

Kalanay Cave The Kalanay Cave is a small cave located on the island of Masbate in central Philippines. The cave is located specifically at the northwest coast of the island within the municipality of Aroroy. The artifacts recovered from the site were similar ...

* Kutawato Caves *

Lapuz Lapuz Cave Lapuz Lapuz Cave is among the many cave sites found in the Bulabog Putian National Park in Moroboro, Dingle, Iloilo in the Philippines. It is long and light reaches up to within from each of its two entrances. The limestone area at its south en ...

Libmanan Caves National Park Libmanan Caves National Park is a protected area of the Philippines located in Barangay Sigamot in the municipality of Libmanan, Camarines Sur in Bicol Region. It is centered on the massive 2,856-meter-long Colapnitan Cave, the tenth longest cav ...

Lucsuhin Natural Bridge Lucsuhin Natural Bridge, locally called Cabag Cave or Lucsuhin Cave, is a natural bridge located between Lucsuhin and Kalubkob in Silang, Cavite province in the Philippines.Macahambus Cave *

Minori Cave Minori Cave is part of the Callao limestone formation, located in Barangay Quibal, Municipality of Peñablanca, Cagayan Province in Northern Luzon. The said cave has two openings. One, designated as Mouth B, is located at 17° 43' 17" N latitud ...

Monfort Bat Sanctuary Monfort Bat Sanctuary has been the house of a large colony of 2.3 million Rousette fruit bats since recorded history. They cover 75% of the ceilings and walls of their -long cave The sanctuary is located on Samal Island, about east of Davao City, ...

* Pamitinan Cave * Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park * Sohoton Cave *

Tabon Cave The Tabon Caves, dubbed as the ''Philippines' Cradle of Civilization'', are a group of caves located on Lipuun Point, north of Quezon municipality, in the south western part of the province of Palawan on Palawan Island, in the Philippines. They ...

Qatar

Al Mukaynis Al Mukaynis is a locality of Mebaireek located in the municipality of Ar Rayyan, Qatar. Mudhlem Cave, which translates to "Dark Cave" in Arabic, is located in the area. Nearby Al Rekayya Farms (Irkaya Farms) is a popular bird watching site. In ...

Dhal Al Misfir Dhal Al Misfir is a cavern that is a natural landmark in the Rawdat Rasid area of Qatar.What caves are in ...

Russia

* Akhshtyrskaya Cave * Avilova Cave * Chertovy Vorota Cave * Denisova Cave *

Ignatievka Cave Ignatievka Cave (''Ignateva cave'', ''Ignatievskaya cave'', russian: Игнатьевская пещера, also known as ''Yamazy-Tash'') is a large limestone cave on the banks of the Sim River, a tributary of the Belaya river in the southern Ur ...

* Kapova Cave *

Kungur Ice Cave Kungur Ice Cave is a karst cave located in the Urals, near the town Kungur in Perm Krai, Russia, on the right bank of the Sylva River. The cave is noted for its ice formations and is a popular tourist landmark. History and archaeology Kungur ...

* Kurgazak cave * Marble Cave *

Mezmaiskaya cave Mezmaiskaya Cave (russian: Мезмайская пещера) is a prehistoric cave site overlooking the right bank of the Sukhoi Kurdzhips (a tributary of the Kurdzhips River) in the southern Russian Republic of Adygea, located in the northwest ...

Okladnikov Cave Okladnikov Cave (russian: пещера Окладникова) is a paleoanthropology, paleoanthropological site located in the foothills of the Altai Mountains in Soloneshensky District, Altai Krai in southern Siberia, Russia. The cave faces sou ...

Orda Cave Orda Cave (Ординская, ''Ordinskaya'') is a gypsum crystal cave found underneath the western Ural Mountains. The mouth is near the shore of the Kungur River just outside Orda, Perm Krai in Russia. The cave system stretches over with a ...

Salavat Yulayev Cave The Salavat Yulayev Cave, also known as the Cave of Salavat Yulayev or Salavat Cave is a cave located in the Ishimbaysky District, Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, and is seven kilometers from the village of Makarovo. The cave forms part of t ...

Sugomak Cave Sugomak Cave (russian: Сугомакская пещера) is located in Ural, on the east slope of the Sugomak Mountain near the town of Kyshtym. The Sugomak Cave is the only cavity in Ural developed in marble by water.

* Syukeyevo Caves *

Vorontsovka Caves The Vorontsovskaya Cave System (Воронцовская система пещер) is a long chain of caves in the Khosta and Adler districts of Sochi, Russia. It is part of a range of Mesozoic limestones that runs parallel to the Black Sea coas ...

Vyalova cave Vyalova Cave (пещера Вялова) is a cave in a lower plateau of the Chatyrdag mountain, Crimea. It also has an 'old' name: Togerik-Alan-Hosar (Тогерик-Алан-Хосар). The cave has a vertical entrance of depth, which gradually ...

Sri Lanka

Andirilena Cave The Andirilena Cave is a cave located from Udugama, in the Galle District of Sri Lanka ( from Belihuloya towards Colombo on the Balangoda–Colombo road). The cave system begins from a opening, before splitting into two main channels (and mor ...

Batatotalena Cave The Batatotalena Cave, also known as the Diva Guhava in Buddhist literature, is a cave system in Sudagala, away from the town of Kuruwita, in the Sabaragamuwa Province of Sri Lanka. The cave measures approximately high, wide, and in length ...

* Belilena Cave * Bogoda Cave * Dambulla Cave Temple *

Fa Hien Cave Fa Hien Cave, also Pahiyangala Cave, is situated in the district of Kalutara, Western Province, Sri Lanka and according to a rural legend, named after an alleged resident during historical times, namely Buddhist monk Faxian (also Fa-Hien, or Fa ...

Hunugalagala Limestone Cave Hunugalagala is a Limestone cave, which is located in Haldummulla, Badulla District Badulla District ( si, බදුල්ල දිස්ත්‍රික්කය ''badūlla distrikkaya''; ta, பதுளை மாவட்டம் ''Patu ...

Kuragala Kuragala ( si, කූරගල ) is a pre-historic archaeological site consisting of an early human settlement during the late Pleistocene period and ruins of ancient Buddhist Architecture of ancient Sri Lanka#Cave temples, Cave temple complex, da ...

* Lahugala Cave * Nitro Cave * Pannila Cave * Rawana Ella Cave * Sithripura Cave * Wavulpone Cave

South Korea

Geumganggul Cave Geumganggul Cave () is a cave located in Seoraksan National Park in Sokcho, South Korea. The cave is in the rocks of the mountain and is around 600 meters above sea level. It was once a place of worship and contains a Buddha Siddhartha ...

Thailand

Doi Nang Non Doi Nang Non ( th, ดอยนางนอน, ; 'Mountain of the Sleeping Lady') is a mountain range in the Thai highlands in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand. It is a karstic formation with numerous waterfalls and caves rising at the southern en ...

* Emerald Cave * Naresuan Cave * Spirit Cave * Tham Hua Kalok * Tham Lot *

Tham Mae Lana Tham Mae Lana ( th, ถ้ำแม่ละนา) is a karst cave located in Mae Lana, Pang Mapha District, Mae Hong Son Province, Thailand. It is abundant in stalactites, and is home to a subterranean stream that is populated by cavefish, incl ...

Tham Phra Wang Daeng Tham Phra Wang Daeng, also known as the Cave of the Monk ( th, ถ้ำพระวังแดง), is a deep cave located in Thung Salaeng Luang National Park, Amphoe Noen Maprang, Phitsanulok Province, upper central Thailand. It is the longes ...

Turkmenistan

Cave of Dzhebel The Cave of Dzhebel is an archeological site near the Krasnovodsk Gulf of the Caspian Sea in Turkmenistan. First explored by Alexey Okladnikov in 1949 and 1950, the site revealed Mesolithic, Neolithic and early Bronze Age artefacts. According t ...

* Koytendag Caves

Uzbekistan

Boybuloq Cave Boybuloq (also known as Boy-Bulok and Boj-Bulok, , ) is a limestone cave in Uzbekistan, the List of deepest caves, deepest cave in Central Asia and all Asia except its West Asia, western part. The cave is deep and long with the main entrance at ...

* Dark Star * Obi-Rakhmat Grotto *

Teshik-Tash Teshik-Tash 1 is a Neanderthal skeleton discovered in 1938 in Teshik-Tash Cave, in the Bajsuntau mountain range, Uzbek SSR, Central Asia. The remains were discovered in 1938 by A. P. Okladnikov. They were found in a shallow pit, reported to be ...

Vietnam

West Bank

* Cave of the Patriarchs *

Cave of the Ramban The Cave of the Ramban is located in the southern cliff of the Upper Kidron Valley, on a slope descending into the Arab neighborhood of Wadi al-Joz, Jerusalem. It is believed by some to be the traditional burial place of Nahmanides (also known as R ...

* Qumran * Warren's Shaft *

Zedekiah's Cave Zedekiah's Cave—also called Solomon's Quarries—is a underground meleke limestone quarry that runs the length of five city blocks under the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. It was carved over a period of several thousand years a ...

Europe

Armenia

Areni-1 Cave The Areni-1 cave complex ( hy, Արենիի քարանձավ) is a multicomponent site, and late Chalcolithic/Early Bronze Age ritual site and settlement, located near the Areni village in southern Armenia along the Arpa River. Findings In ...

Azokh Cave Azykh Cave ( az, Azıx mağarası), also referred to as Azokh Cave () is a six-cave complex in Azerbaijan, known as a habitation site of prehistoric humans. It is situated near the village of Azykh in the Khojavend District. The cave is an impor ...

Austria

Drachenhöhle Drachenhöhle or Drachenhöhle Mixnitz (literally ''Dragon's Cave of Mixnitz'') is a long cave with a wide and high entrance near Mixnitz, Styria, Austria, south-east of Bruck an der Mur located at an elevation of above sea level. Cave bea ...

Eisriesenwelt The Eisriesenwelt (German for "World of the Ice Giants") is a natural limestone and ice cave located in Werfen, Austria, about 40 km south of Salzburg. The cave is inside the Hochkogel mountain in the Tennengebirge section of the Alps. It ...

Gudenus cave The Gudenus cave (german: Gudenushöhle) is an archaeological site near the city of Krems in north-eastern Austria. It is noted for its fossils and remains of Palaeolithic human settlers. Description The Gudenus cavern is situated northwest of ...

Lamprechtsofen Lamprechtsofen (also called Lamprechtshöhle, Lamprechtsofenhöhle or, together with a connected cave, Lamprechtsofen-Vogelschacht) is a limestone karst Subterranean river, river cave in Austria. With a depth of , it is one of the deepest caves in ...

Lurgrotte The Lurgrotte karst cave is the largest cave in the Eastern Alps of Styria, Austria. It is located about north of Graz and crosses the Tannenben karst region. The cave has two accessible entrances, one at the village of ...

Salzofen cave Salzofen cave is an archaeological site in Styria, Austria. It is located in the municipality of Grundlsee at an altitude of approximately , about sixty meters below the summit. It is known for its Neolithic and Middle Paleolithic finds of fire ...

* Schwarzmooskogel Cave System *

Seegrotte The Seegrotte, near Hinterbrühl, Austria, is a cave system with a large grotto located under a former gypsum mine. It was closed in 1912 after the mine flooded with 20 million litres of water. It became a tourist attraction after 1930 and has be ...

* Spannagel Cave * Steinbrücken Cave * Tischofer Cave * Traungold Cave *

Unicorn Cave The Unicorn Cave (german: Einhornhöhle) is the largest show cave in the West Harz, about kilometres northwest of Scharzfeld in the borough of Herzberg am Harz in central Germany.

Azerbaijan

Allar Cave Allar Cave ( az, Allar mağarası) is an archaeological site and Middle Paleolithic human settlement. The cave is situated on the left bank of the Vilesh River, in Allar village, Yardymli Rayon, Azerbaijan, at an altitude of above sea level. T ...

Ashabi-Kahf in Nakhchivan Ashabi-Kahf is a sanctuary in a natural cave which is located in the eastern part of the city of Nakhchivan, in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan. Since ancient times Ashabi-Kahf is considered as a sacred place. It is known not on ...

Buzeyir cave Buzeyir cave ( tly, Bızəy mağarə, script=Latn, az, Buzeyir mağarası) – is an archaeological site and Paleolithic place of human habitation. The cave is located on the left bank of the Zuvandchay River, at the top of ''Delikli-Dash Mounta ...

Damjili Cave Damjili ( az, Damcılı mağarası) – is a half-circular shaped cave site (6400-6000 BC) in Azerbaijan, where evidence of prehistoric human presence during the Paleolithic and Mesolithic was discovered. Various stone tools, arrowheads, flint ...

Tağlar Cave The Taghlar cave ( az, Tağlar mağarası; hy, Մեծ Թաղերի Քարայր, Mets Tagheri Karayr) is an archaeological site that was inhabited by prehistoric humans of the Mousterian culture during the Paleolithic. The cave is located in Az ...

Zar Cave Zar cave ( az, Zar mağarası) is an archaeological site of prehistoric human habitation during the Upper Paleolithic. It is located in the southern part of Zar village, in Kalbajar District, Azerbaijan. During an archaeological campaign in the ...

Belgium

Caves of Han-sur-Lesse The Caves of Han-sur-Lesse (in French: Grottes de Han-sur-Lesse or simply Grottes de Han) refers to a natural complex of caves in Belgium. A major Belgian tourist attraction (around 250-300,000 visitors per year), the caves are located in Walloni ...

Caves of Hotton The Caves of Hotton are speleothem caves located in Wallonia near Hotton in Belgium, which were discovered in 1958 and are around 5 or 6 km long and 70 metres deep. A stream called ''Syphon'' runs at the bottom of the caves. Gallery Image:Ho ...

Goyet Caves The Goyet Caves (french: Grottes de Goyet) are a series of connected caves located in Wallonia in a limestone cliff about 15 m (50 ft) above the river Samson near the village of Mozet in the Gesves municipality of the Namur province, Belgium. The ...

Grotte de Rosée The ''Grotte de Rosée'' (Cave of Rosée) is located near Éhein in the municipality of Engis, in Belgium. It has been classified as Wallonia's ''patrimoine immobilier exceptionnel de la Région wallonne'' ('exceptional heritage of Wallonia'), and ...

Neptune Caves The Neptune Caves (french: Grottes de Neptune), also known as the ''Grottes de l'Adugeoir'' are a series of natural caves located in Wallonia near Petigny in the municipality of Couvin, Belgium. They are located on the Eau Noire river, a tributary ...

Naulette Naulette, french: Caverne de la Naulette is a large cave located in Wallonia on the left bank of the Lesse, a tributary of the Meuse in the hills above Dinant, Belgium. In 1866 Belgian paleontologist Édouard Dupont discovered a fragmented edent ...

Scladina Scladina, or Sclayn Cave, is an archaeological site located in Wallonia in the town of Sclayn, in the Andenne hills in Belgium, where excavations since 1978 have provided the material for an exhaustive collection of over thirteen thousand Moust ...

Spy Cave Spy Cave (french: Grotte de Spy) is located in Wallonia near Spy in the municipality of Jemeppe-sur-Sambre, Namur Province, Belgium above the left bank of the Orneau River. Classified as a premier Heritage site of the Walloon Region, the location ...

* Trou de l’Abîme

Bosnia and Herzegovina

* Badanj Cave *

Vjetrenica Vjetrenica ( sr-cyrl, Вјетреница, ; ) is the largest cave in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the most biodiverse cave in the world. It is part of the Dinaric Alps mountain range, which is known for its karstic and speleological features. The ...

Bulgaria

Bacho Kiro Cave The Bacho Kiro cave () is situated west of the town Dryanovo, Bulgaria, only away from the Dryanovo Monastery. It is embedded in the canyons of the Andaka and Dryanovo River. It was opened in 1890 and the first recreational visitors entered the ...

Devetashka cave Devetàshka cave ( bg, Деветашката пещера) is a large karst cave around east of Letnitsa and northeast of Lovech, near the village of Devetaki on the east bank of the river Osam, in Bulgaria. The site has been continuously oc ...

* Kozarnika * Ledenika *

Magura Cave The Magura Cave (Bulgarian "пещера Магура") is located in north-western Bulgaria close to the village of Rabisha, from the town of Belogradchik in Vidin Province. The prehistoric wall paintings of Magura have great resemblance with t ...

Orlova Chuka Orlova Chuka ( bg, Орлова чука) is a cave situated in the Danubian Plain, north-eastern Bulgaria. With a total length of 13,437 m, Orlova Chuka is the second longest cave in the country after Duhlata. The cave was discovered in 1941 and ...

* Devil's Throat Cave *

Prohodna Prohodna ( bg, Проходна) is a karst cave in north central Bulgaria, located in the Iskar Gorge near the village of Karlukovo in Lukovit Municipality, Lovech Province. The cave is known for the two eye-like holes in its ceiling, known as ...

Saeva dupka Saeva dupka ( bg, Съева дупка) is a cave in northern Bulgaria near the village of Brestnitsa, Lovech Province (). The cave has naturally formed 400 meters of corridors and halls. The cave has hosted many choral music performances, thanks ...

* Snezhanka Cave *

Uhlovitsa Uhlovitsa () is a show cave in the Blue Pools Area (Bulgarian: Mестността „Сините вирове“, or ''Mestnostta "Sinite virove"'') in the Smolyan Province of the Rhodope Mountains, southern Bulgaria. The cave is close to Mogil ...

Yagodinska cave Yagodinska Cave ( bg, Ягодинска пещера) is a cave in the Rhodope Mountains, southern Bulgaria. It is included in the 100 Tourist Sites of Bulgaria under № 89. It is named after the homonymous village nearby. With a total length o ...

Croatia

Amfora Pit Amfora is a pit on Biokovo Mountain, in Biokovo Nature Park. The entry to the cave is in the upper parts of the mountain, c. 1000 meters from Sv. Jure peak, on the southeast slope of one of many pits of Biokovo. It was discovered in 1998, by speleo ...

Baredine Cave Baredine Cave is a geomorphologic monument of nature and the first speleologic locality and tourist cave in Istria opened for visits since 1995. It is situated in western part of Istria 6 km north-east from Poreč, Croatia , image_flag ...

Biserujka Biserujka is a cave located 6 km northeast of Dobrinj, in the village of Rudine, above Slivanjska Bay, in the island of Krk, Croatia. An undistinguished stone house in the middle of a bare karst landscape hides the entrance to a cave 12&nbs ...

* Blue Grotto *

Caves of Barać The Caves of Barać ( hr, Baraćeve špilje) are located near the village of Nova Kršlja in the municipality of Rakovica, Croatia. In 1892 the caves were opened to visitors but subsequently abandoned and forgotten following World War II. In Ju ...

* Drakonjina špilja * Grabovača * Grapčeva cave *

Jazovka Jazovka is a pit in the Žumberak Mountains area of Croatia, known as a site of mass executions and burials associated with Partisan activities during and after World War II. Hundreds of wounded Croatian soldiers from Zagreb hospitals and civilia ...

* Red Lake * Vela Spila * Velebit caves *

Vindija Cave Vindija Cave is an archaeological site associated with Neanderthals and modern humans, located in the municipality of Donja Voća, northern Croatia. Three of these Neanderthals were selected as the primary sources for the first draft sequence o ...

Vrtare Male Vrtare Male is a pit cave located near Dramalj, a seaside village in Croatia. Its depth is believed to be , with around submerged. It was first explored in 1966 by the Mountaineering Society Velebit. In 1996, Dragan Pelić, a photographer and sp ...

Czech Republic

Amatérská Cave Amatérská Cave (in Czech ''Amatérská jeskyně'', in English ''Amateurs Cave'', not used) is part of longest cave system in the Moravia, Czech Republic. It is also famous for archaeological discoveries. Except for the entrance, the cave is not ...

* Býčí skála *

Hranice Abyss Hranice Abyss ( cs, Hranická propast) is the deepest flooded pit cave in the world. It is a karst sinkhole near the town of Hranice, Czech Republic. The greatest confirmed depth is , of which is underwater. In 2020, a scientific expedition to ...

Klácelka Klácelka is a man-made cave in a forest near Liběchov, Czech Republic. It is known for its complex of sculptural works made by sculptor Václav Levý. The name of the cave and the sculptures commemorate František Klácel, a theologian and philos ...

* Koněprusy Caves *

Kůlna Cave The Kůlna Cave is a cave in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It is part of the Moravian Karst. Visit of Kůlna Cave is part of sightseeing tours of the Sloup-Šošůvka Caves. Geography The cave is located in the municipal terri ...

* Macocha Gorge in the Punkva Caves * Mladeč caves * Moravian Karst * Punkva Caves *

Šipka Šipka is a cave located near Štramberk, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic, 440 m above sea level. In 1880, a mandible of a Neanderthal child was found there. The age of the child has been estimated to be between 9 and 10 years.Jiří ...

* Zbrašov aragonite caves

Denmark

* Sorte Gryde * Sorte Ovn * Våde Ovn

Finland

Halonen Cave Halonen Cave is a cave in Säkkilä village, Halosenvaara, Kuusamo, Finland. The cave forms a passageway that expands into a room-like space, and in which the tilt of the floor grows towards the back of the cave. The cave is shaped like a cylinde ...

Wolf Cave Wolf Cave ( fi, Susiluola, sv, Varggrottan) is a crack in the ''Pyhävuori'' mountain (Swedish: ''Bötombergen'') in Kristinestad, near the Karijoki municipality in Finland. The upper part of the crack has been packed with soil, forming a cave. ...

France

Aven Armand Aven Armand is a limestone cave located in the Cévennes National Park of France, in the Lozère ''département'', between Meyrueis and Sainte-Enimie known for the tallest known stalagmite of 30 meters. History It was first scientifically explo ...

Aven d'Orgnac Aven d'Orgnac is a cave located near Orgnac-l'Aven, in the Ardèche ''département'', France. it was discovered in 1935 by Robert de Joly Robert-Jacques de Joly (, Paris – , Montpellier) was a famous French caver and speleologist. Conside ...

Barry Troglodyte Village The Barry Troglodyte Village is an archaeological site near Bollène, northwestern Vaucluse, France. It is located on a forested hill that overlooks the Rhône valley. A group of caves and stone buildings comprise an ancient village that is historic ...

* Caverne du Pont-d'Arc *

Caves of Arcy-sur-Cure The caves of Arcy-sur-Cure are a series of caves located on the commune of Arcy-sur-Cure, Burgundy, France. Some of them contained archaeological artefacts, from the Mousterian to Gallo-Roman times. Some hold remarkable parietal art, the secon ...

Caves of Gargas The Caves of Gargas (french: Grottes de Gargas, ) in the Pyrenees region of France are known for their cave art from the Upper Paleolithic period - about 27,000 years old. The caves are open to the public. Location The caves are located near th ...

* Chauvet Cave * Bournillon cave * Réseau de la

Dent de Crolles The Dent de Crolles () is a karstic mountain (2,062 m) of the Chartreuse Mountains range, north east of Grenoble, Isère, France. It has a characteristic "tooth-like" profile and is easily recognizable in the Isère Valley (Grésivaudan) in the G ...

Font-de-Gaume Font-de-Gaume is a cave near Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil in the Dordogne départment of south-west France. The cave contains prehistoric polychrome cave paintings and engravings dating to the Magdalenian period. Discovered in 1901, more than ...

Gouffre Berger The Gouffre Berger is a French cave discovered on 24 May 1953 by Joseph Berger, Bouvet, Ruiz de Arcaute and Marc Jouffrey. From 1953 to 1963, it was regarded as the deepest cave in the world at , relinquishing this title to the previous contender, ...

* Grotte des Demoiselles * Grottes du Cerdon * Grottes Pétrifiantes de Savonnières *

Grottes de Presque The Grottes de Presque or Presque Caves are a group of caves in Saint-Médard-de-Presque, in the Lot department of France. In 1825, during the construction of the D673 road from Saint-Céré to Rocamadour Rocamadour (; ''Rocamador'' in Occita ...

Jean Bernard System Gouffre Jean-Bernard or Réseau Jean Bernard, sometimes known simply as Jean Bernard, is one of the deepest caves known in the world. It is in the Alps in Samoëns, France. The first entrance to the cave was found by the French caving group Group ...

La Mansonnière cave La Mansonnière cave is a chalk cave in Rémalard en Perche in northern France. It was discovered in 1977. Discovery La Mansonnière cave was discovered by the Speleo Club du Rond Point de L'Aigle (SCRPLA) in 1977. The discovery was published in th ...

* La Verna cave * Lascaux Cave *

Les Combarelles Les Combarelles is a cave in Les Eyzies de Tayac, Dordogne, France, which was inhabited by Cro-Magnon people between approximately 13,000 to 11,000 years ago. Holding more than 600 prehistoric engravings of animals and symbols, the two galleries ...

* Niaux Cave * Padirac Cave * Pech Merle * Rouffignac Cave *

Vercors Cave System The Vercors Massif is a range in France consisting of rugged plateaus and mountains straddling the ''départements'' of Isère and Drôme in the French Prealps. It lies west of the Dauphiné Alps, from which it is separated by the rivers Drac ...

* Villars Cave

Georgia

Abrskil Cave Abrskil Cave or Abrskila ( ka, აბრსკილის მღვიმე) is a stalactite cave near Otapi village in Abkhazia, Georgia. It is named after the national hero of Abrskil — a parallel folk hero of the Greek Prometheus a ...

* Cave of Bethlehem *

Krubera Cave Krubera Cave ( ab, Ӡоу Аҳаҧы, ka, კრუბერის გამოქვაბული or კრუბერის ღრმული, tr; also known as Voronya Cave, sometimes spelled Voronja Cave) is the second-deepest-known c ...

New Athos Cave The New Athos Cave ( ab, Афон Ҿыцтәи аҳаҧы; ka, ახალი ათონის მღვიმე; russian: Новоафонская Пещера) also Novoafonskaya, Novy Afon Cave, or New Afon Cave is a karst cave in the Iv ...

Sarma cave Sarma Cave ( ka, სარმის მღვიმე), located in Gagra District of Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia, is the third deepest recorded cave in the world. Its current depth (1830 m) was measured in 2012 by a team led by Pavel ...

* Satsurblia Cave * Tsona Cave

Germany

* Aachtopf *

Atta Cave The Atta Cave (german: Atta-Höhle) or Attendorn Dripstone Cave (''Attendorner Tropfsteinhöhle'') in Attendorn is one of the largest dripstone caves in Germany. The cave was discovered during the quarrying of limestone at the Bigge Valley Limest ...

Balve Cave The Balver Höhle (German for Balve Cave) is the biggest cave used as a cultural venue in Europe. It is located in Balve, Germany. History The Balve Cave was mentioned in the Thidrekssaga. It has been used by the local ''Schützenfest'' (marksm ...

* Barbarossa Cave *

Baumann's Cave Baumann's Cave (german: Baumannshöhle), located nearby Hermann's Cave, is a show cave in Rübeland in the district of Harz and is Germany's oldest show cave. The grotto was formed in the Devonian limestone of the Elbingerode Complex at least s ...

Bing Cave The Bing Cave or Binghöhle is a limestone show cave in Wiesenttal, Bavaria, Germany. It was discovered in 1905 by the industrialist, poet, memoirist, and amateur naturalist Ignaz Bing (1840–1918), co-founder with his brother Adolf Bing of ...

Blauhöhle The Blauhöhle is the largest cave system in the Swabian Alps in southern Germany. The Blauhöhle presumably originated in a time when the Danube still flowed through the Blau valley. Since the shifting of the Danube, several small rivers, the ...

* Blautopf *

Brillenhöhle The Brillenhöhle (german: Brillenhöhle, literally ''spectacles cave'') is a cave ruin, located west of Ulm on the Swabian Alb in south-western Germany, where archaeological excavations have documented human habitation since as early as 30,000 ...

Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura The Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura are a collection of six caves in southern Germany which were used by Ice Age humans for shelter about 33,000 to 43,000 years ago. Within the caves were found the oldest non-stationary works of human a ...

Daneil's Cave Daneil's Cave (german: Daneilshöhle), also called Robber's Cave (''Räuberhöhle'') is located on the northern side of the Huy ridge in the district of Harz in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It is named after the legend of a notorious robber, ...

* Das verfluchte Jungfernloch *

Dechen Cave The Dechen Cave (german: Dechenhöhle) in Iserlohn, Germany is one of the most visited show caves in Germany. It is located in the northern part of the Sauerland at Iserlohn (Grüne district). 360 metres of the 870-metre long cave have been laid o ...

* Devil's Cave *

Easter Cave The Easter Cave (german: Osterhöhle) is a small cave in the vicinity of Trondorf (in the municipality of Neukirchen bei Sulzbach-Rosenberg) in Germany. The cave is 185 metres long and may be visited during the summer months. It was first mentioned ...

Eberstadt Stalactite Cave The Eberstadt Stalactite Cave (or Eberstadter Tropfsteinhöhle) is a German show cave located in Bauland at the transition of Southeastern Odenwald forest in the North of Baden-Württemberg. It is near Eberstadt, a District of Buchen, around east ...

Erdmanns Cave The Erdmannshöhle is a stalactite or flowstone cave in the village Hasel between Schopfheim and Wehr, 20 km east of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.Black ForestThe Erdmannshöhle in Hasel/ref> Name The word Erdmannshöhle is co ...

Geissenklösterle Geissenklösterle () is an archaeological site of significance for the central European Upper Paleolithic, located near the town of Blaubeuren in the Swabian Jura in Baden-Württemberg, southern Germany. First explored in 1963, the cave contains t ...

Heimkehle The Heimkehle is one of two great gypsum caves in Germany that are accessible as show caves. It lies on the southern edge of the Harz Mountains between Rottleberode and Uftrungen, east of Nordhausen, right on the state border between Thuringia an ...

Hermann's Cave Hermann's Cave (german: Hermannshöhle), together with Baumann's Cave, is one of two show caves in the village of Rübeland near the town of Wernigerode, in the district of Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The cave was formed out of the Devonian li ...

Hohler Fels The ''Hohle Fels'' () (also ''Hohlefels'', ''Hohler Fels'', German for "hollow rock") is a cave in the Swabian Jura of Germany that has yielded a number of important archaeological finds dating from the Upper Paleolithic. Artifacts found in the ...

Hohlenstein-Stadel Hohlenstein-Stadel is a cave located in the Hohlenstein cliff (not to be confused with the Hohle Fels) at the southern rim of the Lonetal (valley of the Lone) in the Swabian Jura in Germany. While first excavations were started after the second h ...

Iberg Dripstone Cave The Iberg Dripstone Cave (german: Iberger Tropfsteinhöhle) is a public cave and geology museum in southern Lower Saxony near Bad Grund, Germany. It is located on the western edge of the Harz mountains in the Iberg mountain at a height of abo ...

Kleine Feldhofer Grotte Kleine Feldhofer Grotte was a karstic limestone cave and a paleoanthropologic site in the Neander Valley in western Germany. In August 1856, the Neanderthal type specimen was unearthed from the cave. Miners uncovered a skull cap and a number of ...

Lichtenstein Cave The Lichtenstein Cave, discovered in 1972, is an archaeological cave site near Dorste, Lower Saxony, Germany with a length of . The skeletal remains of 21 female humans and 19 males, dated to the Bronze Age, about 3,000 years ago were discovered. ...

Ofnet Caves The Ofnet Caves (german: Ofnethöhlen) are the remains of an underground karst system on the edge of the Nördlinger Ries in Germany. They are located on a limestone hill near Nördlingen, Bavaria. The caves became famous in 1908 when 33 prehistor ...

Riesending cave The Riesending cave (german: Riesending-Schachthöhle) is a pit cave in the Untersberg near Berchtesgaden, Germany and Salzburg, Austria. At 1,148 m it is the deepest and at 19,300 m the longest cave in Germany. It was discovered in 19 ...

Saalfeld Fairy Grottoes The Saalfeld Fairy Grottoes (in German: ''Saalfelder Feengrotten'') are caverns or grottoes of a former mine near Saalfeld, in the German state of Thuringia. They have long been famous for their countless colorful mineral formations (speleothems) ...

Schellenberg Ice Cave The Schellenberg Ice Cave is a cave located in the Berchtesgaden Alps in Upper Bavaria, Germany, near the Austrian border. The cave belongs to the Untersberg massif, at 1570 metres above sea level, and is the only ice cave open in Germany. It ...

Sirgenstein Cave The small Sirgenstein Cave, german: Sirgensteinhöhle is situated above sea level inside the high ''Sirgenstein'', a limestone rock. The cave sits above the Ach River valley bottom in the central Swabian Jura, southern Germany. Archaeologist ...

Unicorn Cave The Unicorn Cave (german: Einhornhöhle) is the largest show cave in the West Harz, about kilometres northwest of Scharzfeld in the borough of Herzberg am Harz in central Germany.

* Vogelherd Cave *

Volkmarskeller Volkmarskeller is the name of a cave that used to have a church next to it in the vicinity of Blankenburg (Harz) in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. History Around the period from 850 to 870, the hermit Liutbirg, who was highly respected by ...

Weingartenloch Weingartenloch is a cave located near the German town of Osterhagen Osterhagen is a village near the town of Bad Lauterberg in the district of Göttingen in Lower Saxony, Germany. The village lies between Bad Lauterberg and Bad Sachsa. Not far fr ...

* Wimsener Höhle

Gibraltar

Gorham's Cave Gorham's Cave ( es, Cueva de Gorham, ) is a sea-level cave in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. Though not a sea cave, it is often mistaken for one. Considered to be one of the last known habitations of the Neanderthals in Europe, the ...

Ibex Cave Ibex Cave is a limestone cave on the Rock of Gibraltar which has yielded stone artifacts of Mousterian tradition. It was discovered in 1975. It is so named as an ibex skull was found within the cave which would have been hunted by the Neandertha ...

Martin's Cave Martin's Cave is a cave in the British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. It opens on the eastern cliffs of the Rock of Gibraltar, below its summit at O'Hara's Battery. It is an ancient sea cave, though it is now locat ...

St. Michael's Cave St. Michael's Cave or Old St. Michael's Cave is the name given to a network of limestone caves located within the Upper Rock Nature Reserve in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar, at a height of over above sea level. According to Alo ...

Vanguard Cave Vanguard Cave is a natural sea cave in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar which is part of the Gorham's Cave complex. This complex of four caves has been nominated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 2016. The cave complex is one ...

Greece

* Alepotrypa cave * Apidima Cave *

Arkaliospilio Arkaliospilio is a cave located to the south west of Marathos. The entrance is 2.1 meters wide and 1 meter high. A large part of this cave is still unexplored. Roman, Byzantine and Medieval conches have been found inside the cave. It was used a ...

Arkoudiotissa Cave Arkoudiotissa (, ) is a cave in the municipality of Akrotiri on the Greek island of Crete. From Gouverneto Monastery, the path to the cave is only accessible by foot. Arkoudiotissa ("she-bear"), is noted for its stalagmite which is said to look ...

* Blue Cave * Cave of Euripides *

Cave of the Lakes The Cave of the Lakes ( el, Σπήλαιο των Λιμνών, Spilaio ton Limnon), formerly called Troupisio, is located near the village Kastria in the Achaea regional unit. It is from Kalavryta and from Kleitoria. The cave is an old subterr ...

* Corycian Cave * Davelis Cave * Dersios sinkhole *

Doxa Doxa (; from verb )Henry Liddell, Liddell, Henry George, and Robert Scott (philologist), Robert Scott. 1940.δοκέω" In ''A Greek–English Lexicon, A Greek-English Lexicon'', edited by Henry Stuart Jones, H. S. Jones and R. McKenzie. Oxford. ...

Eileithyia Cave Eileithyia Cave (also the Cave of Eileithyia) was a sacred cave dedicated to the goddess of childbirth, Eileithyia, on the island of Crete, that was used from the Neolithic era to the Roman, with worship flourishing in the Late Minoan period. I ...

Franchthi Cave Franchthi Cave or Frankhthi Cave ( el, Σπήλαιον Φράγχθι) is an archaeological site overlooking Kiladha Bay, in the Argolic Gulf, opposite the village of Kiladha in southeastern Argolis, Greece. Humans first occupied the cave during ...

* Gourgouthakas *

Kleidi Cave Klithi or Kleidi Cave ( el, Σπήλαιο Κλειδί, ''Spelaio Kleidi'') is located to the north of the village of Kleidonia in the Ioannina regional unit and around west of the Megalakkos Cave, northwestern Greece. It is situated atop the ...

Megalakkos The Megalakkos ( el, Σπήλαιο Μεγάλακκος, ''Spelaio Megalokkos'') is a rock shelter located north of the village of Kleidonia in the Ioannina regional unit and around east of the Kleidi Cave, northwestern Greece. It sits atop the ...

Ossa cave Ossa Cave is a cave at Mount Ossa in Greece. According to reports, the cave contained inscriptions. In literature The ''Cave of Ossa'', is mentioned in the book '' De mundo'', on page 1. An archaeology Archaeology or archeology is the scie ...

* Petralona Cave * Phyle Cave *

Propantes Propantes is a potholing, pothole on the mountain of Parnon within the borders of the Paliochori community of the Leonidio, Municipality of Leonidio in Greece. The entrance is about three by seven metres wide. The entrance shaft drops to -289m witho ...

Sacred caves of Crete Sacred caves and peak sanctuaries are characteristic holy places of ancient Minoan Crete. Most scholars agree that sacred caves were used by the Minoans for religious rites, and some for burial. While all peak sanctuaries have clay human figurines, ...

Stravomyti Stravomyti Cave is an ancient Minoan cave on Crete. Geography The Stravomyti Cave is 400 meters above sea level on Mt. Juktas' southwest slope. Archaeology The Stravomyti Cave first saw use during Neolithic times, as a refuge and burial. Durin ...

Sykia (Voula) Sykia ( el, Συκιά, ''Sykia'') is a small doline in Athens, Greece. The doline, which has a depth of about , has been known since the mid-1940s and is located near the Hymettan peak of Korakovouni at an altitude of approximately 300 m ...

Theopetra cave Theopetra Cave is a limestone cave located in Theopetra village of Meteora municipality, Thessaly, Greece. It is situated on the northeast side of a limestone rock formation that is south of Kalambaka. The site has become increasingly important ...

* Vari Cave

Hungary

* Aggtelek Karst *

Anna Cave The Anna Cave (also called ''Petőfi Cave'') is a natural limestone cave in Miskolc-Lillafüred, Hungary, near the waterfall. The cave was discovered in 1833, when opening a shaft in the limestone in order to provide the iron furnace at Hámor wi ...

* Baradla-Domica Cave System * Cave Bath * Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst *

Gellért Hill Cave The Gellért Hill Cave ( hu, Gellérthegyi-barlang) is part of a network of caves within Gellért Hill in Budapest, Hungary. The cave is also referred to as "Saint Ivan's Cave" (''Szent Iván-barlang''), regarding a hermit who lived there and is ...

István Cave The István Cave (''St. Stephen's Cave'') is a limestone cave in Miskolc-Lillafüred, Northern Hungary. The cave was formed in the Triassic period and is about 710 m long. It was discovered in 1913. According to local legend, a dog fell into a 15 ...

* Molnár János Cave * Rákóczi Cave *

Szelim cave The Szelim cave ( Hungarian: ''Szelim-barlang'' or ''Szelim-lyuk'' (Szelim hole), ''Bánhidai nagy barlang'' (Bánhidian big cave), ''Eperjes-barlang, Szemi-luki, Szemi-lyuka, Szelimluk barlang, Bánhidai-zsomboly, Szent Vit-barlang'') is locate ...

Iceland

Búri In Norse mythology, Búri (Old Norse: ), is a divinity god 'producer, father' of all other gods,Simek (Simek 2007:47). and an early ancestor of the Æsir gods of the principal pantheon in Norse religion. Búri was licked free from salty rime stone ...

* The Caves of Ægissíða *

Grjótagjá Grjótagjá () is a small lava cave near lake Mývatn in Iceland. It has a thermal spring inside. In early 18th century the outlaw Jón Markússon lived there and used the cave for bathing. Until the 1970s Grjótagjá was a popular bathing site ...

Hellnahellir Hellnahellir () is the largest man-made or artificial cave in Iceland. It is located in Landsveit, South Iceland. The cave is almost long and the walls are covered with engravings. Its age is unknown but it is most probably from 12th or 13th cen ...

* Kverkfjöll * Landmannahellir *

Surtshellir Surtshellir () is a lava cave located in western Iceland, around 60 km from the settlement of Borgarnes. Approximately a mile in length, it is one of the longest such caves in the country. It was the first known lava tube in the world, at ...

* Víðgelmir

Ireland

Aillwee Cave Aillwee Cave (Irish: ''Aill Bhuí'') is a cave system in the karst landscape of the Burren in County Clare, Ireland. The name ''Aillwee'' is derived from the Irish which means "yellow cliff". Privately owned, it forms part of the Aillwee Cav ...

Caves of Kesh The Caves of Kesh, also known as the Keash Caves or the Caves of Keshcorran (''Uaimheanna na Céise'' or ''Uaimheanna Chéis Chorainn'' in Irish language, Irish), are a series of Solutional cave, limestone caves located near the village of Keash, ...

Cloyne Cave Cloyne Cave is a cave located near the town of Cloyne, County Cork, Ireland. It is the longest cave in County Cork. Description The cave has been known of for thousands of years and lends its name to the town itself. The name Cloyne is taken ...

Crag Cave Crag Cave is a cave in Ireland, located just outside Castleisland, County Kerry. Formed in elevated limestone rock, the system extends to of surveyed passage, on two levels. It is the 7th-longest cave system in the Republic of Ireland, and th ...

Doolin Cave Doolin Cave ( or ''Poll-an-Ionain'') is a limestone cave near Doolin in County Clare, Ireland, on the western edge of The Burren. The name is the anglicised version of the Irish language, Irish name , which is said to translate into "Ivy Cliff C ...

Dunmore Caves Dunmore Cave () is a limestone solutional cave in Ballyfoyle, County Kilkenny, Ireland. It is formed in Lower Carboniferous (Viséan) limestone of the Clogrenan Formation. It is a show cave open to the public, particularly well known for its r ...

Fintan's Grave Fintan's Grave is a mythological cave on the Irish mountain (now hill) Tul Tuinde (Hill of the Wave) in the Arra Mountains near Lough Derg. Supposedly, Fintan mac Bóchra In Irish mythology Fintan mac Bóchra (modern spelling: Fionntán), ...

Kelly's Cave Kelly's Cave is a limestone solutional cave and National Monument in County Mayo, Ireland. Location Kelly's Cave lies in woodland northeast of Cong. History English antiquarian Wilfrid James Hemp suggested the cave may have had prehistoric ...

Killavullen Caves The Killavullen Caves are limestone caves near the village of Killavullen in County Cork, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. They are situated on the south bank of the Munster Blackwater, River Blackwater at Killavullen Bridge. The caves have been kn ...

Marble Arch Caves The Marble Arch Caves are a series of natural limestone caves located near the village of Florencecourt in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. The caves are named after the nearby Marble Arch, a natural limestone arch at the upstream end of Cl ...

Mitchelstown Caves Mitchelstown Cave (also known as New Cave) is a limestone cave near Burncourt, County Tipperary, Ireland. Situated from Mitchelstown, County Cork, it became the first cave in Ireland to be developed for the public in 1972. The cave is locate ...

Noon's Hole Noon's Hole ( Irish grid ref H12684431) lies about 5 km northwest of the centre of Boho, in the townland of Old Barr in the parish of Devenish, County Fermanagh, close to the border with Boho parish. The cave is under part of the escarpme ...

Pollatoomary Pollatoomary is the deepest explored underwater cave in Ireland. It has been explored to an underwater depth of . The explored limit of Pollatoomary is also deeper underwater than that of the terminal sump in Wookey Hole Caves in Somerset, Engla ...

* Pollnagollum *

Shannon Cave Shannon Cave is an active stream passage cave which straddles the border of County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland and County Cavan in the Republic of Ireland. At vertical depth, it stands joint sixth with Poulnagree in County Clare in the deepes ...

St Patrick's Purgatory St Patrick's Purgatory is an ancient pilgrimage site on Station Island in Lough Derg (Donegal), Lough Derg, County Donegal, Ireland. According to legend, the site dates from the fifth century, when Christ showed Saint Patrick a cave, sometime ...

Italy

Abisso Bonetti Abisso Bonetti ("Bonetti Abyss") is a Karst cave in the municipality of Doberdò del Lago (Gorizia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy), SE from the small village of ''Bonetti'', near Slovenian border (village of '' Nova vas''). The cave is one of th ...

* Arene Candide * Blue Grotto *

Borgio Verezzi Caves The Borgio Verezzi Caves (Italian: ''Grotte di Borgio Verezzi''), also named Valdemino, are a karst cave system located in the municipality of Borgio Verezzi, in the province of Savona, Liguria. They are a show cave. Overview Located in the outsk ...

* Castelcivita Caves *

Castellana Caves The Castellana Caves (Italian: ''Grotte di Castellana'') are a karst cave system located in the municipality of Castellana Grotte, in the Metropolitan City of Bari, Apulia, southern Italy. Overview The caves, discovered in 1938 by the spele ...

Cave of Dogs The Cave of Dogs (Italian: ''Grotta del Cane'') is a cave near Naples, Italy. Volcanic gases seeping into the cave give the air inside a high concentration of carbon dioxide. Dogs held inside would faint; at one time this was a tourist attracti ...

Coreca Caves Coreca Caves are two karstic cavities (Grotta du 'Scuru, cb404, and Gruttuni, cb405) located along the Tyrrhenian coast of Calabria, near Coreca in the municipality of Amantea Amantea ( Calabrian: ; ) is a town, former bishopric, ''comune'' (munic ...

Duino Mithraeum The Duino Mithraeum is a Mithraeum located near Duino, in the province of Trieste, north-eastern Italy. Mithraea were places of worship for the followers of the Roman mystery religion known as the Mithraic Mysteries. Unlike most other Mithraea, th ...

* Ear of Dionysius *

Frasassi Caves The Frasassi Caves (Italian: ''Grotte di Frasassi'') are a karst cave system in the municipality of Genga, Italy, in the province of Ancona, Marche. They are among the most famous show caves in Italy. History The caves, discovered by a group ...

* Grotta Bianca * Grotta del Castiglione * Grotta del Cavallo *

Grotta del Cavallone The Grotta del Cavallone, also known as the Grotta della Figlia di Jorio, is a cave located near Lama dei Peligni, in the province of Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy. It is open during the warmer months; an admission fee is charged. Overview The cave lies ...

Grotta del Pisco The Grotta del Pisco is a cave on the southwestern side of the island of Capri, Italy. Impasto ware fragments found at the Anacapri site are from the Copper Age The Copper Age, also called the Chalcolithic (; from grc-gre, χαλκός '' ...

Grotta dell'Addaura The Addaura cave (Italian: Grotta dell'Addaura) is a complex of three natural grottoes located on the northeast side of Mount Pellegrino in Palermo, Sicily, Southern Italy. The importance of the complex is due to the presence of cave-wall engravin ...

* Grotta dell'Arco * Grotta dell'Arsenale *

Grotta dell'Artiglieria Grotta dell'Artiglieria ("Artillery Cave") is a Karst cave in the municipality of Doberdò del Lago (Gorizia, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy). The cave is located NE of Doberdob Lake, near the top of a small hill, in the small village of ''Jamiano ...

Grotta delle Felci The Grotta delle Felci (Italian for "Fern Grotto") is a cave located on the island of Capri, in Campania, Italy. The cave housed Neolithic men; 549 archaeological findings and fossil A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved r ...

* Grotta Delle Prazziche *

Grotta dello Smeraldo The Grotta dello Smeraldo (Italian for "Emerald Grotto") is a cave, partly inundated by the sea and located in Conca dei Marini, Italy, on the Amalfi Coast. Overview The cave owes its name due to the emerald light that reverberates in it: an unde ...

Grotta di Ispinigoli The Grotta di Ispinigoli is a karst cave in the Supramonte range, near Dorgali, Sardinia, Italy. Overview One of the largest caves on the island, it contains the tallest column, the tallest in Europe and one of the tallest in the world, measuring ...

* Grotta di Matromania *

Grotte di Pilato The Grotte di Pilato (Italian: "Grottoes of Pilate") are a complex system of tunnels and pools in the island of Ponza, Italy. Dug to sea level, they are from the Roman period. Many locals believe they were used to raise moray eels. In 1997 a Roman ...

Grotta Gigante Grotta Gigante ("Giant Cave", sl, Briška jama or ''Jama pri Briščikih''), also known as ''Riesengrotte'' or as ''Grotta di Brisciachi'', is a giant cave on the Italian side of the Trieste Karst (''Carso''), close to the village of Borgo Grot ...

Grotta Grande Del Ciolo Ciolo is a narrow coastal inlet and a site of historical and environmental interest, which is located in Apulia, Italy. The location is also known as a geological site and for the presence of numerous sea caves, the largest one being the Grotta d ...

* Grotta Piccola Del Ciolo *

Grotta Regina del Carso Grotta Regina del Carso ("Queen of Karst cave", sl, Jama Kraljica Krasa) is a Karst cave in the village of ''San Michele del Carso'' ( Slovene: ''Vrh'') in the municipality of Savogna d'Isonzo (Gorizia, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy). The cave is ...

* Grotta Verde *

Monte Kronio Monte Kronio, or ''Monte San Calogero'', is a hill about 7 km from Sciacca, a comune of the province of Agrigento in Sicily. Description With a height of 395.48 metres, the hill is composed mostly of limestone. It is a nature reserve admi ...

* Neptune's Grotto *

Nereo Cave Nereo Cave ( it, Grotta di Nereo; ca, Cova de Nereu) is a huge underwater sea-cave situated on the north-west of Sardinia in the ''Coral riviera'' of Alghero, Italy. The name was given by the discoverers in honour of the mythological figure Ner ...

Paglicci Cave Paglicci Cave is an archaeological site situated in Paglicci, near Rignano Garganico, Apulia, southern Italy. The cave, discovered in the 1950s, is the most important cave of Gargano. The cave is an attraction of the Gargano National Park. Desc ...

Pastena Caves The Pastena Caves (Italian: ''Grotte di Pastena'') are a karst cave system located in the municipality of Pastena, in the province of Frosinone, Lazio. Overview The caves were discovered in 1926 by Carlo Franchetti and were opened for tourism one ...

* Pertosa Caves *

Romito Cave The Romito cave ( it, Grotta del Romito) is a natural limestone cave in the Lao Valley of Pollino National Park, near the town of Papasidero in Calabria, Italy. Stratigraphic record of the first excavation confirmed prolonged paleo-human occupati ...

Toirano Caves The Toirano Caves (Italian: ''Grotte di Toirano'') are a karst cave system in the municipality of Toirano, in the province of Savona, Liguria, Italy. Overview The area is situated close to the town of Toirano and few kilometers to the Ligurian ...

Kosovo

* Marble Cave * Gryka e Madhe Cave * Shpella e Kallabes * Shpella e Karamakazit * Shpella e Radavcit

Latvia

Gutmanis Cave Gutman's Cave ( lv, Gūtmaņa ala) is the widest and highest cave in the Baltic countries, located by the Gauja River in the area known as the in the Gauja National Park near Sigulda, Latvia. It started forming more than 10,000 years ago when ...

* Riežupe sand caves * Dauģene sand caves * Patkula Cave * Cinderdag Labyrinth * Great Bat Cave * Sooty Cave * Flea Cave * Cave of Happiness * Great Bay Lang Cave * Liv Sacrifice Caves

Malta

* Blue Grotto * Ghar Dalam *

Għar ix-Xiħ Għar ix-Xiħ (English: ''Cave of the Old Man'' or ''Cave of the Sheikh'' or ''The headman's abode'') is a former cave in Xewkija, facing Mġarr ix-Xini, Gozo, Malta. It was inhabited since the 2nd-century B.C. and was re-discovered in 2009. The c ...

* Ghar Lapsi * Ninu's Cave *

Ras id-Dawwara Ras id-Dawwara is a geographical area in Rabat, Malta, on the line of picturesque cliffs including Dingli Cliffs. On site are several caves at sea level. History Carmelo Borg Pisani, a fascist spy who was executed for treason in 1942, landed her ...

* Xerri's Grotto

North Macedonia

* Alilica * Pešna

Norway

* Greftkjelen * Greftsprekka *

Grønligrotta Grønligrotta (or Grønligrotten) is a karst cave in the municipality of Rana in Nordland Nordland (; smj, Nordlánnda, sma, Nordlaante, sme, Nordlánda, en, Northland) is a county in Norway in the Northern Norway region, the least populou ...

* Jarlshola *

Jordbrugrotta Jordbrugrotta is a cave in the upper parts of by the river in Rana municipality in Nordland county in Norway. The cave is named after the farm Jordbrua further down the valley. The cave is situated about two kilometers south of the dam at Kal ...

* Larshullet * Oskola-Kristihola *

Radiohola Radiohòla (literal: ''the radio cave'') is a natural shelter used by the Norwegian resistance during the Second World War. It served as a hiding place for a radio that brought news from the British, during a time of which radios were banned and the ...

* Raggejavreraige *

Setergrotta Setergrotta (or Setergrotten) is a karst cave in Røvassdalen in the municipality of Rana in Nordland, Norway. It has a total depth of 50 meters and explored length of 2.4 kilometers. It is probably connected to the nearby Grønligrotta Grønligrott ...

Svarthola Svarthola or Vistehola is a cave and an archaeological site, located in Randaberg municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The deep cavern is located on the ''Viste farm'', about northwest of the city of Stavanger, situated near the shore of ...

Tjoarvekrajgge Tjoarvekrajgge or Čoarvvekraigi ( en, The Reindeer Antler Cave) is a cave in the Bonådalen valley in the municipality of Sørfold in Nordland Nordland (; smj, Nordlánnda, sma, Nordlaante, sme, Nordlánda, en, Northland) is a county in N ...

* Trollkirka

Poland

* Bańdzioch Kominiarski * Jaskinia Czarna * Jaskinia Kozia * Jaskinia Miętusia * Jaskinia Mylna *

Jaskinia Niedźwiedzia Kletno Bear Cave ( pl, Jaskinia Niedźwiedzia w Kletnie) is the longest cave located in the Śnieżnik Mountains, which are part of the greater Sudeten mountain range. It was discovered in 1966, near the village of Kletno in Poland. It is famous f ...

Jaskinia Raj Paradise Cave ( pl, Jaskinia Raj, italic=no, ) is a horizontal karstic limestone cave located inside the Malik hill, to the south of Kielce, Świętokrzyskie Voivodship, Poland. It is part of the "Red tourist trail Chęciny - Kielce" in the ...

* Jaskinia Wielka Śnieżna * Paradise Cave * Ptasia Studnia *

Radochów Cave The Radochów Cave (''German: Kunzendorfer Höhle, Reyersdorfer Tropfsteinhöhle'') is a karst cave in lenticular marble. It is situated in the valley of the Jaskiniec Stream, at the foot of Bzowiec in the Golden Mountains (Sudetes), Golden Mountai ...

Smocza Jama Smocza Jama (Polish for "dragon's den") is a limestone cave in the Wawel Hill in Kraków. Owing to its location in the heart of the former Polish capital and its connection to the legendary Wawel Dragon, it is the best known cave in Poland. M ...

* Śnieżna Studnia

Portugal

* Almonda Cave *

Cave of Aroeira The Cave of Aroeira is an archaeological and paleoanthropological site in the Portugal, Portuguese Estremadura Limestone Massif. The cave is located in the village of Almonda, in the Freguesia, civil parish of Zibreira, in the municipality of Tor ...

* Cave of Pedra Furada * Cave of Pego do Diabo *

Cave of Salemas The Cave of Salemas is located close to the village of Lousa in the municipality of Loures in the Lisbon District of Portugal. Discovered by archaeologists during the 1950s, the cave appears to have been occupied by humans as a temporary refuge d ...

Escoural Cave The Prehistoric Rock-Art Site of Escoural Cave ( pt, Estação Arqueológica da Herdade da Sala/Gruta do Escoural, links=no) is a structure known for its Paleolithic-era rock-art and funerary burial site, located in the Portuguese municipality of ...

Furnas do Cavalum The Furnas do Cavalum (Caves of Cavalum in English) are a group of four caves located in Machico Machico () is a municipality, parish and city in the southeast part of the island of Madeira, in the Autonomous Region of Madeira. The easternmost ...

* Mira de Aire Caves *

Moinhos Velhos Cave The Moinhos Velhos Cave ( pt, Gruta de Moinhos Velhos), is one of the most important cave systems known in the Portuguese Estremadura Limestone Massif, with about 9 km in extension. It is characterized by the existence of two fóssil paragenet ...

São Vicente Caves The São Vicente Caves (Grutas de São Vicente in Portuguese) are caves located in the parish and county of São Vicente, Madeira. Entrance is charged at €8 for adults, but have been closed since March 2020. History These caves were formed ar ...

* Torres Cave

Romania

Bears' Cave Bears' Cave ( ro, Peștera Urșilor) is located in the western Apuseni Mountains, on the outskirts of Chișcău village, Bihor County, northwestern Romania. It was discovered in 1975 by Speodava, an amateur spelaeologist group. Bears' Cave rec ...

Coliboaia Cave Coliboaia Cave ( ro, Peștera Coliboaia, ) is located in Apuseni Natural Park, Câmpani, Bihor County, Romania. It may contain the oldest known cave paintings of Central Europe, radiocarbon dated to 32,000 and 35,000 years BP, corresponding to t ...

Cuciulat Cave Cuciulat Cave ( ro, Peștera Cuciulat) is located on the Podișul Someșan plateau, near the village Cuciulat in the commune Letca, Sălaj County, Romania. It contains the oldest known cave paintings in Central Europe. The cave has been known ...

Movile Cave Movile Cave () is a cave near Mangalia, Constanța County, Romania discovered in 1986 by Cristian Lascu a few kilometers from the Black Sea coast. It is notable for its unique groundwater ecosystem abundant in hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxi ...

Peștera cu Oase Peștera cu Oase (, meaning "The Cave with Bones") is a system of 12 karstic galleries and chambers located near the city Anina, in the Caraș-Severin county, southwestern Romania, where some of the oldest European early modern human (EEMH) rem ...

Peștera Muierilor Peștera Muierilor, or Peștera Muierii (Romanian for "The Women's Cave", or "The Woman's Cave"), is an elaborate cave system located in the Baia de Fier commune, Gorj County, Romania. It contains abundant cave bear remains, as well as a human sk ...

Peștera Vântului Peștera Vântului (Wind Cave) is the largest cave in Romania, with a length of almost 52 km (total length of passages). It is situated in the Pădurea Craiului Mountains on the left bank of Crișul Repede River in the vicinity of Șuncuiuș v ...

Scărișoara Cave Scărișoara Cave (, hu, Aranyosfői-jégbarlang), is one of the biggest ice caves in the Apuseni Mountains of Romania, in a part of Carpathian chain. It is considered a show cave and one of the natural wonders of Romania. It has also been desc ...

* Tăușoare-Zalion Reserve * Topolnița Cave

Serbia

* Brežđe *

Cave Church A cave monastery is a monastery built in caves, with possible outside facilities. The 3rd-century monk St. Antony the Great, known as the founder of monasticism, lived in a cave. *Albania ** Qafthanë Cave Church, cave church near Urakë ** ...

Cerje Cave Cerje Cave or Cerjanka ( sr, Церјанска пећина, Cerjanska pećina) is a cave in southeast Serbia. With the length of , it is the second longest cave in Serbia after the long Lazar's Cave. Location The cave is located east of t ...

Degurić Cave The Degurić cave is, according to the latest research, the longest and, with its characteristics, the most beautiful cavern in the region of Valjevo Valjevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Ваљево, ) is a city and the administrative center of the Kolub ...

Hadži-Prodan's Cave The Hadži-Prodan's Cave ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Хаџи-Проданова пећина, Hadži-Prodanova pećina) is an archaeological site of the Paleolithic period and a national natural monument, located in the village Raščići around from Ivanj ...

Kađenica The Smoke Cave or Kađenica is a cave-church located in the village of Dljin near Čačak on the right bank of the Zapadna Morava, one kilometre upstream from Ovčar Banja, Serbia. During the Hadži Prodan's revolt in 1814, people found refuge ...

Lazareva Pećina The Lazareva Pećina, which translates Lazar's Cave, is the longest explored cave in Serbia. Located in Bor municipality, near Zlot, the cave is also sometimes referred to as Zlotska Cave. According to 2012's ''Recent Landform Evolution: The Ca ...

Pešturina Pešturina ( sr, Пештурина) is a cave in the municipality of Niška Banja in southeast Serbia. It is southwest of Jelašnica and southeast of Niš. Artifacts from the Middle and Upper Paleolithic periods were discovered since the archa ...

* Petnica Cave * Potpeć Cave * Rajkova cave *

Resava Cave Resava Cave ( sr, Ресавска пећина, Resavska pećina) or Resavska Cave is a cave near Jelovac in eastern Serbia, about from Despotovac. It is one of the largest cave systems in Serbia, with the corridors about long. Geography ...

Risovača Cave Risovača Cave, ( sr-cyr, Пећина Рисовача, Pećina Risovača) is situated at the very entrance of the town of Aranđelovac in central Serbia around above the Kubršnica river valley. It is one of the most important archaeological si ...

Stopića cave The Stopića Cave ( sr, Стопића пећина, Stopića pećina) is a limestone cave near Sirogojno, on the slopes of Mount Zlatibor in western Serbia.Branko Pejović, 9 January 2018, Politika, ''Stopića pećina sve posećenija i uređeni ...

Slovakia

Belianska Cave Belianska Cave ( sk, Belianska jaskyňa, ) is a stalactite cave in the Slovak part of the Tatra mountains The Tatra Mountains (), Tatras, or Tatra (''Tatry'' either in Slovak () or in Polish () - '' plurale tantum''), are a series of moun ...

Bystrianska Cave Bystrianska Cave is a limestone cave located on the southern slopes of the Nizke Tatry Mountains, along the road towards Banska Bystrica, at the southern edge of the town of Bystrá, in the Brezno District, Banskobystrický region, in Slovakia. ...

Demänovská Cave of Liberty Demänovská Cave of Liberty (Slovak: ''Demänovská jaskyňa slobody'') is a karst cave in Low Tatras, Slovakia. The cave was discovered in 1921, and, opened to the public in 1924. It is the most visited cave in Slovakia. The public entrance ...

Demänovská Ice Cave Demänovská Ice Cave or Demänovská ľadová jaskyňa (in Slovak) is an ice cave in the Demänovská Valley ( Low Tatra) in Slovakia Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is ...

Dobšiná Ice Cave Dobšiná Ice Cave ( sk, Dobšinská ľadová jaskyňa; hu, Dobsinai-jégbarlang) is an ice cave in Slovakia, near the mining town of Dobšiná in the Slovak Paradise. Since 2000 it has been included on the UNESCO World Heritage list as a part of ...

* Domica Cave *

Driny Driny is a limestone cave in West Slovakia in the Little Carpathians Mountains. It is located around 2 km southwest of the village of Smolenice. The cave's entrance altitude is 399 m. The first attempt to enter the cave was made by Prussian ...

Gombasek Cave Gombasek Cave or Gombasecká jaskyňa (in Slovak language, Slovak) and Gombaszögi-barlang (in Hungarian language, Hungarian) is a karst cave in the Slovak Karst, Slovakia. It is named after the settlement of ''Gombasek'', which belongs to the ...

Harmanecká Cave Harmanecká Cave or Harmanec Cave ( sk, Harmanecká jaskyňa, hu, Hermándi barlang) is a stalactite cave in Central Slovakia. It is located on the northern side of the Kotolnica massif in the Staré Hory and Kremnica mountain ranges and south ...

Jasovská Cave Jasov Cave ( sk, Jasovská jaskyňa, and hu, Jászói barlang) is a speleothem limestone cave and archaeological site in the Slovak Karst in Slovakia. It is located near the village of Jasov, around from Košice city. History The cave was p ...

Krásnohorská Cave Krásnohorská Cave ( sk, Krásnohorská Jaskyňa) is a karst cave situated at the northern foot of the Silická planina Plain, in the Slovak Karst, 6.5 km southeast of Rožňava, in Slovakia. With unique natural decorations of bizarre shapes ...

* Ochtinská Aragonite Cave *

Važecká Cave Važecká Cave ( sk, Važecká jaskyňa, and hu, Vázseci-barlang) is a long stalactite limestone cave. Lying at an elevation of , it is located near the village of Važec, in the Liptov Basin, near the Biely Váh River, on the northern edge of t ...

Slovenia

Cross Cave Cross Cave ( sl, Križna jama, german: Kreuzberghöhle), also named Cold Cave under Cross Mountain (), is a cave in Slovenia's Lož Valley, in the area between the Lož Karst Field, Cerknica Karst Field, and Bloke Plateau. The cave is named aft ...

Divje Babe Divje Babe () is a Karst cave and archaeological park overlooking the Idrijca River in Slovenia. It is noted for its Paleolithic remains, including the worked bone of cave bear known as the Divje Babe Flute, which has been interpreted as a Neander ...

Hell Cave Hell Cave ( sl, Jama Pekel) is a karst cave in the settlement of Zalog pri Šempetru in Slovenia. Name Across Slovenia there are many oronyms, regional names, and microtoponyms named ''Pekel'' or 'hell'. In folk geography, the name was used to ...

Krka Cave Krka Cave ( sl, Krška jama) is a horizontal karst cave and an occasional source of the Krka River in Dry Carniola, central Slovenia. It lies in a pocket valley between the villages of Trebnja Gorica to the east and Gradiček to the west, nort ...

* Planina Cave * Postojna Cave * Potok Cave *

Škocjan Caves Škocjan Caves (; sl, Škocjanske jame, it, Grotte di San Canziano) is a cave system in Slovenia. Due to its exceptional significance, Škocjan Caves was entered on UNESCO’s list of natural and cultural World Heritage Sites in 1986. Internati ...

* System Migovec *

Vilenica Cave Vilenica Cave or Vilenica Cave at Lokev ( sl, Jama Vilenica pri Lokvi) is the oldest show cave in Europe. The first tourists to the cave were recorded in 1633. It is located next to the village of Lokev in the municipality of Sežana on the Kars ...

Vrtoglavica Vrtiglavica, also Vrtoglavica (both from Slovene ''vrtoglavica'' 'vertigo'), is a karst shaft on the Kanin Plateau, part of the Kanin Mountains, Western Julian Alps, on the Slovene side of the border between Slovenia and Italy. It has the deep ...

Weaver Cave Weaver Cave ( sl, Tkalca jama), also known as Inlet Cave (), is a long ponor cave in southwest Slovenia. It runs from the west (downstream) side of the Rak Škocjan Valley, where it has two entrances, and continues into Planina Cave. It is trav ...

Spain

* Altamira *

Armintxe Cave Armintxe Cave in Lekeitio (Spain) is an important Paleolithic rock art site, estimated to date from between 12,000 and 14,500 years ago. Location Armintxe Cave is situated in the Lekeitio municipality of the Biscay province, in the Basque C ...

Canelobre Caves Canalobre Cave () is a karst cave located in the small municipality of Busot, Alicante Province, in the Valencian Community of Spain. It has an estimated area of at least . It is one of the largest and one of the most popular caves in the Valencia ...

Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain The Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain () is a grouping of 18 caves of northern Spain, which together represent the apogee of Upper Paleolithic cave art in Europe between 35,000 and 11,000 years ago ( Aurignacian, Gra ...

Cave of Chufín The cave of Chufín is located in the town of Riclones in Rionansa (Cantabria), Spain. Situated at the confluence of the Lamasón and Nansa rivers, several caves ornamented with rock art pock the steep slopes above the water. Chufín is one of ...

Cave of El Castillo The Cueva del Castillo, or Cave of the Castle, is an archaeological site within the complex of the Caves of Monte Castillo, in Puente Viesgo, Cantabria, Spain. The archaeological stratigraphy has been divided into around 19 layers, depending o ...

Cave of El Soplao El Soplao ( Cantabrian: El Sopláu) is a cave located in the municipalities of Rionansa, Valdáliga and Herrerías in Cantabria, Spain. It is considered unique for the quality and quantity of geological formations (speleothems) in its 17 miles le ...

* Cave of La Pasiega *

Cave of Niño The Cave of Niño (Spanish: ''Cueva del Niño'') is a cave located in Aýna, Spain. It was declared ''Bien de Interés Cultural A Bien de Interés Cultural is a category of the heritage register in Spain. The term is also used in Venezuela and ...

Cave of the Barranc del Migdia The cave of the Barranc (Ravine) del Migdia was discovered in 1989 in Xabia (Spain). At an altitude of around 375 metres on the sunny side of the Montgó, the cave is situated at the head of the ravine after which it is named. The site preserves ...

Cave of Valporquero The cave of Valporquero (la cueva de Valporquero" is located at the north of the Province of León (Spain), near the village of Valporquero de Torío in the municipality of Vegacervera and 47 km away from the capital city, León. Open ...

Caves in Cantabria The Cantabrian caves' unique location make them an ideal place to observe the settlements of early humans thousands of years ago. The magnificent art in the caves includes figures of various animals of the time such as bison, horses, goats, deer ...

Caves of King Cintolo The Caves of King "Cintolo" (Galician: ''Covas do Rei Cintolo'', Spanish: ''Cueva del Rey Cintolo'') are a group of caves, of more than 7,500 meters length, in the outskirts of the City of Mondoñedo, Spain. Of limestone formation, they include nu ...

Caves of Nerja The Caves of Nerja ( es, Cueva de Nerja) are a series of caverns close to the town of Nerja in the Province of Málaga, Spain. Stretching for almost , the caverns are one of Spain's major tourist attractions. Concerts are regularly held in one of ...

Caves of Valeron Valerón's "monastery" (in Spanish ''cenobio de Valerón'') is an archaeological site on the Spanish island of Grand Canary, in the municipality of Santa Maria de Guia, on Valerón's cliff. It is the largest pre-Hispanic collective granary

Coves dels Hams The Coves dels Hams (; es, Cuevas dels Hams; en, "Fishhook Caves") are a Solutional cave system on the east coast of the Spanish Balearic Island of Mallorca. The caves are in the municipality of Manacor, about 1 km to the west of the town o ...

* Cueva de la Fuente *

Cueva de la Pileta Cueva de la Pileta (''Cave of the Pool'' in English) is a cave in the province of Málaga (Spain) which has cave paintings and was discovered in 1905. Investigation It was investigated by Abbe Henri Breuil, a French Catholic Church, Catholic prie ...

Cueva de los Casares Cueva de los Casares is a cave in Riba de Saelices (Province of Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain). Discovered in 1933, it contains a number of paleolithic cave paintings, and is most notable for a series of paintings depicting what some ...

Cueva de los Murciélagos The Cueva de los Murciélagos is a cave system in the located about 4 km southeast of the town of Zuheros in the southern province of Córdoba in Spain. Although the caves were discovered in 1868, they were not studied until 1938. The cave ...

Cueva de los Verdes Cueva de los Verdes (Spanish for "Verdes' cave", from the "Verdes" family) is a lava tube and tourist attraction of the Haria municipality on the island of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands (Spain). The cave lies within the Monumento Natural del ...

Cueva de Montesinos Cueva de Montesinos is a cave of the Province of Albacete, Spain. At the bottom of the cave is a small lake formed by rainwater filtering through the cave. It has been discovered through a series of experiments and tests that the water in that la ...

Cueva del Viento Cueva del Viento ("Wind Cave") is the largest lava tube system in Europe, and the sixth largest in the world, behind a series of lava tubes in Hawaii. It is also considered the most complex volcanic tube in the world, due to its morphology of sever ...

Cuevas de El Castillo The Cueva del Castillo, or Cave of the Castle, is an archaeological site within the complex of the Caves of Monte Castillo, in Puente Viesgo, Cantabria, Spain. The archaeological stratigraphy has been divided into around 19 layers, depending ...

Cuevas de la Araña The Coves de l'Aranya (in original Catalan language, known in English as the Spider Caves and in Spanish Cuevas de la Araña) are a group of caves in the municipality of Bicorp in València, eastern Spain. The caves are in the valley of the river ...

Cuevas de Sorbas Cuevas de Sorbas are the tourist gypsum caves in Sorbas in Almeria, Spain. The formations are 6 million years old and consist of karst in gypsum Gypsum is a soft sulfate mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula ...

Cuevas del Drach The Caves of Drach (modern Catalan spelling: ; es, Cuevas del Drach; ) are four great caves that are located in the island of Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, extending to a depth of 25 m and reaching approximately 4 km in length. The ...

Four Doors cave site The Four Doors (in Spanish ''Cuatro Puertas'') site, also known as , is a complex of caves in the south of the municipality of Telde, Gran Canaria. The ''Cuatro Puertas'' site is named after its most spectacular cave, the most emblematic of Gra ...

Fuentemolinos cave The Fuentemolinos cave ( es, Cueva de Fuentemolinos) is the largest formation in a cave complex, consisting of at least twelve cavities, in the town of Puras de Villafranca belonging to the municipality of Belorado (Burgos, Spain , image_flag ...

Grotte Casteret The Grotte Casteret, also known by its Spanish names Gruta de Casteret or Gruta Helada de Casteret, is a limestone ice cave, located high in the Spanish Pyrenees, within the Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park. Discovered in 1926 by Norbert Caste ...

Gruta de las Maravillas The Gruta de las Maravillas (English: "Grotto of the Marvels") is a cave in the town center of Aracena, Andalusia, Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_mo ...

* Las Caldas cave *

Ojo Guareña Ojo Guareña is a Karst, karst complex located in the Cantabrian Mountains of Castile and León, Castile and Leon, Spain, declared a National monuments of Spain, natural monument by the government of Castile and Leon in 1996. It is composed of ov ...

Ordesa Cascada Ordesa Cascada is a famous waterfall and cave area located in the Ordesa Valley in Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' ...

* Painted Cave *

Praileaitz Cave The Praileaitz Cave ( Basque for ''Rock of the Monk'' cave) is located in the municipality of Deba (Gipuzkoa, Basque Country). Early in August 2006, various paleolithic cave paintings were found during an archaeological excavation - a non-figura ...

Santa Cueva de Covadonga The Santa Cueva de Nuestra Señora de Covadonga (English: the Holy Cave of Our Lady of Covadonga) is a Catholicism, Catholic Shrine, sanctuary located in Asturias, northern Spain. It is a cave in the Picos de Europa mountains, which gives its na ...

* Santuario de la Cueva Santa *

Sidrón Cave The Sidrón Cave ( ast, Cueva del Sidrón) is a non-carboniferous limestone karst cave system located in the Piloña municipality of Asturias, northwestern Spain, where Paleolithic rock art and the fossils of more than a dozen Neanderthals were fo ...

Tito Bustillo Cave The Tito Bustillo Cave is a prehistoric rock shelter located in the small town of Ribadesella, in the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Asturias, Spain. The cave was inhabited by humans (Cro-Magnon, cro-magnon) before the y ...

Sweden

* Coral Cave * Hoverbergsgrottan *

Lummelunda Cave The Lummelunda Cave ( sv, Lummelundagrottan, also known as the ''Rövarkulan'', "The Robbers' Den") is located in a nature reserve at Lummelunda north of Visby on Gotland, Sweden. The explored part of this karst cave is almost , making it one of ...

Switzerland

Grotte aux Fées Grotte may refer to: *Grotte, Sicily, a comune in the province of Agrigento, Italy *Grotte di Castro, a comune in the Province of Viterbo in the Italian region Latium *Robert Grotte, a New Zealand professional rugby league footballer * Nicolas d ...

Hölloch The Hölloch ( en, Hellhole) is a long cave in the municipality Muotathal in Switzerland. In addition to being the second longest cave in Europe, it is also notable for having a depth of . The Hölloch is an example of a karst cave system. ...

Saint-Léonard underground lake __NOTOC__ Saint-Léonard underground lake (French ''Lac souterrain de Saint-Léonard'') is located at Saint Léonard in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. Geography It is formed where a bed of Triassic gypsum, emplaced within impervious Carboni ...

Siebenhengste-Hohgant-Höhle Siebenhengste-Hohgant-Höhle is a cave located in Switzerland, in the Canton of Bern north of Lake Thun, between the villages of Eriz and Habkern. The cave network formed in the Urgonian Limestone Formation (Aptian age). The cave was first expl ...

St. Beatus Caves Beatus of Lungern, known also by the honorific Apostle of Switzerland or as Beatus of Beatenberg or Beatus of Thun, was probably a legendary monk and hermit of early Christianity, and is revered as a saint. Though his legend states that he died in ...

* Wildkirchli

Turkey

Akhayat sinkhole Akhayat (also known as Aşağı Dünya Obruğu) is a sinkhole in Mersin Province, Turkey. The Akhayat Sinkhole is located in a rural area of the Silifke ilçe (district), to the north of Atayurt town. Geography The sinkhole is situated to the no ...

Ayvaini Cave Ayvaini Cave is a show cave situated southeast of Lake Uluabat at the district border between Mustafakemalpaşa and Nilüfer in Bursa, Turkey. The cave has two entrances, one in the village Ayvaköy and the other between the villages Doğanalan a ...

Ballıca Cave Ballıca Cave ( tr, Ballıca Mağarası) is a small cave situated at southeast of Pazar, Tokat Province, Turkey. The cave is southeast of the village Ballıca. Ballıca Cave is a fossil cave. Its overall length is . The upper sections are compo ...

Belbaşı Belbaşı is a cave and a late Paleolithic/ Mesolithic site in southern Turkey, located southwest of Antalya. Overview Belbaşı culture is a term sometimes used to describe the prehistoric culture whose clearly identifiable traces at the site w ...

Beldibi Cave Beldibi may refer to: * Beldibi culture, a late Paleolithic/Mesolithic culture found at Belbaşı Belbaşı is a cave and a late Paleolithic/ Mesolithic site in southern Turkey, located southwest of Antalya. Overview Belbaşı culture is a term ...

* Buzluk * Cave dwellings of Ahlat * Çayırköy Cave * Cennet and Cehennem#Cehennem, Cehennem Cave * Cehennemağzı Cave * Cennet and Cehennem#Cennet, Cennet Cave * Cumayanı Cave * Damlataş Cave * Derebucak Çamlık Caves * Dupnisa Cave * Erçek Cave * Egma Sinkhole * Gilindire Cave * Gökgöl Cave * Ilıksu Cave * İnağzı Cave * Inkaya Cave * İnsuyu Cave * Karaca Cave * Karain Cave * Kızılelma Cave * Kocain Cave * Nimara Cave * Oylat Cave * Pınargözü Cave * Sofular Cave * Tilkiler Cave * Yarımburgaz Cave * Yenesu Cave * Zeytintaşı Cave

Ukraine

* Atlantida (cave), Atlantida * Near Caves * Odessa Catacombs * Optimisticeskaja, Optymistychna * Priest's Grotto *

United Kingdom

* Alum Pot * Aquamole Pot * Aveline's Hole * Badger Pot * Bakers pit * Bar Pot * Blue John Cavern * Boho Caves * Boxhead Pot * Cathole Cave * Charterhouse Cave * Chislehurst Caves * Clearwell Caves * Cleeves Cove, Cleeves Cove cave * Cox's cave * Crackpot Cave * Creswell Crags * Crystal Cave, Bermuda, Crystal Cave * Dan yr Ogof * Death's Head Hole * Disappointment Pot * Dog Hole Cave * Ease Gill Caverns * Eastwater Cavern * Eden Sike Cave * Excalibur Pot * Father Foote's Cave * Fingal's Cave * Flood Entrance Pot * Gaping Gill * Short Drop Cave - Gavel Pot System, Gavel Pot * GB Cave * Giant's Hole * Goatchurch Cavern * Gough's Cave * Great Douk Cave * Great Masson Cavern * Great Rutland Cavern * Heathery Burn Cave * Ingleborough Cave * Jib Tunnel * Juniper Gulf * Kent's Cavern * Kirkdale Cave * La Cotte de St Brelade * Lamb Leer * Langcliffe Pot * Long Churn Cave * Long Drop Cave * Longwood Swallet * Lost John's Cave * Lost Pot * Manor Farm Swallet *

* Mossdale Caverns * Mother Ludlam's Cave * Mother Shipton's Cave * Nidderdale Caves *

* Ogof Agen Allwedd * Ogof Craig a Ffynnon * Ogof Draenen * Ogof Ffynnon Ddu * Ogof Hen Ffynhonnau * Ogof Hesp Alyn * Ogof Llyn Parc * Ogof y Daren Cilau * Otter Hole * Oxlow Cavern * Pate Hole * Peak Cavern * Pen Park Hole * Pierre's Pot * Poole's Cavern * Portbraddon Cave * Porth Yr Ogof * Pridhamsleigh Cavern * Rat Hole, Gaping Gill, Rat Hole * Reed's Cave * Reservoir Hole * Rhino Rift * Rowten Pot * Rumbling Hole * Ryedale Windypits *

* Shatter Cave * Short Drop Cave - Gavel Pot System, Short Drop Cave * Sidcot Swallet * Simpson Pot * Skirwith Cave * Slaughter Stream Cave * Smoo Cave * Speedwell Cavern * St Cuthbert's Swallet * Stoke Lane Slocker * Stream Passage Pot * Stump Cross Caverns * Swildon's Hole * Swinsto Cave * Thor's Cave * Three Counties System * Thrupe Lane Swallet * Titan (cave), Titan * Treak Cliff Cavern * Uamh an Claonaite * Upper Flood Swallet * Weathercote Cave * White Scar Caves * Wookey Hole Caves * Yordas Cave

Oceania

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Australia

* Abercrombie Caves * Abrakurrie Cave * Ashford Caves * Borenore Caves * Buchan Caves * Bungonia Caves * Camooweal Caves National Park * Capricorn Caves * Cave Gardens (South Australia), Cave Gardens * Cliefden Caves * Cloggs Cave * Devil's Lair * Drovers Cave National Park * Engelbrecht Cave * Exit Cave, Tasmania, Exit Cave * Fireclay Caverns * Fossil Cave * Gunns Plains Cave * Hastings Caves State Reserve * Hermit's Cave * Hippo's Yawn * Jenolan Caves * Koonalda Cave * Koongine Cave * Kutikina Cave * London Bridge (New South Wales), London Bridge * Mammoth Cave (Western Australia), Mammoth Cave * Mermaids Cave * Moondyne Cave * Mount Etna Caves National Park * Murrawijinie Cave * Naracoorte Caves * New Guinea II cave * Niggly Cave, Tasmania, Niggly Cave * Ngilgi Cave * Old Homestead Cave * Pindar Cave * Princess Margaret Rose Cave * St Michaels Cave (Avalon Beach), St Michaels Cave * Tarragal Caves * Tjunti * Wellington Caves * Willi Willi Caves * Wombeyan Caves * Wyanbene Caves * Yarrangobilly Caves

Cook Islands

* Anatakitaki Cave * To'uri Cave * Vaitaongo Cave

Federal States of Micronesia

* Tonotan Guns and Caves

Guam

* Mahlac Pictograph Cave * Talagi Pictograph Cave * Yokoi's Cave

Nauru

* Moqua Caves

New Caledonia

* Pindai Caves

New Zealand

* Aurora Cave * Cave Stream, Broken River Cave * Bulmer Cavern * Cathedral Caves * Clifden Limestone Caves * Cracroft Caverns * Ellis Basin cave system * Gardner's Gut * Harwood Hole * Honeycomb Hill Cave * Metro Cave / Te Ananui Cave * Moncks Cave * Nettlebed Cave * Ngarua Caves * Rawhiti Cave * Riwaka River, Riwaka Resurgence * Ruakuri Cave * Te Ana-au Caves * Waitomo Caves * Waitomo Glowworm Cave * Wiri Lava Cave

Samoa

* Falemauga Caves

Tuvalu

* Caves of Nanumanga

Vanuatu

* Yeyenwu

North America

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Belize

* Actun Box Ch'iich' * Actun Tunichil Muknal * Barton Creek Cave * Che Chem Ha Cave * Chiquibul Cave System * Great Blue Hole * Midnight Terror Cave * Nohoch Che'en

Bermuda

* Crystal Cave (Bermuda), Crystal Cave

Canada

* Arctomys Cave * Artlish Caves Provincial Park * Bluefish Caves * Booming Ice Chasm * Cadomin Cave * Canyon Creek Ice Cave * Castleguard Cave * Cave and Basin National Historic Site * Cavernicole Cave * Charlie Lake Cave * Close to the Edge (cave), Close to the Edge * Cody Caves * Gargantua (cave), Gargantua * Mount Cory (Alberta)#The "Hole in the Wall", The "Hole in the Wall" * Horne Lake Caves Provincial Park * Nakimu Caves * Mount Tupper#Raspberry Rising Cave, Raspberry Rising Cave * Trou du Diable * Warsaw Caves

El Salvador

* Holy Spirit Grotto

Guatemala

* Actún Can * Candelaria Caves * Chiquibul Cave System * Cuevas del Silvino * Grutas de Lanquín * Naj Tunich

Honduras

* Cuevas de Taulabé * Cuyamel Caves * Talgua caves

Mexico

* Balankanche * Cacahuamilpa Caverns, Cacahuamilpa Cave * Cave of the Crystals * Cave of Swallows * Chan Hol * Chevé Cave * Chiquihuitillos * Choo-Ha * Coxcatlan Cave * Cueva de Villa Luz * Devil's Throat at Punta Sur * Frightful Cave * Guilá Naquitz Cave * Grutas de Cacahuamilpa National Park * Grutas de García * Jolja' * Juxtlahuaca * Loltun Cave * Ndaxagua * Sistema Dos Ojos * Sistema Nohoch Nah Chich * Sistema Ox Bel Ha * Sistema Sac Actun * Tolantongo#the grottos, Tolantongo * Zacatón

Panama

* Bayano Caves

United States

* Aeolus Cave, Vermont * Airmen's Cave, Texas * Alabaster Caverns State Park, Oklahoma * Antelope Cave, Arizona * Ape Cave, Washington * Arnold Lava Tube System, Oregon * Ash Hollow State Historical Park, Ash Hollow Cave, Nebraska * Baker Cave, Texas * Bandera Volcano Ice Cave, New Mexico * Bat Cave and Cascade Caverns State Nature Preserves, Bat Cave, Kentucky * Bat Cave mine, Arizona * Batcheller's Cave, New Hampshire * Beaver Valley Rock Shelter Site, Delaware * Bechan Cave, Utah * Bell Witch Cave, Tennessee * Big Bone Cave, Tennessee * Big Four Ice Caves, Washington * Black Chasm Cave, California * Blanchard Springs Caverns, Arkansas * Blowhole Cave, Utah * Blue Spring Cave, Tennessee * Bluespring Caverns, Indiana * Bluff Dweller's Cave, Missouri * Bobcat Trail Habitation Cave, Hawaii * Boone's Cave Park, North Carolina * Boyd Cave, Oregon * Boyden Cave, California * Bracken Cave, Texas * Bridal Cave, Missouri * Buckner Cave, Indiana * Bull Shoals Caverns, Arkansas * Bull Thistle Cave Archaeological Site, Virginia * Burnet Cave, New Mexico * Burro Flats Painted Cave, California * California Caverns, California * Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico * Carter Caves State Resort Park, Cascade Cave, Kentucky * Cascade Caverns, Texas * Cass Cave, West Virginia * Cathedral Caverns State Park, Alabama * Cave-in-Rock State Park, Cave-in-Rock, Illinois * Cave of the Bells, Arizona * Cave of the Mounds, Wisconsin * Cave of the Winds (Colorado), Cave of the Winds, Colorado * Cave of the Winds (New York), Cave of the Winds, New York * Cave Without a Name, Texas * Caverns of Sonora, Texas * Caves of St. Louis, Missouri * Charles Town Cave, West Virginia * Cheese Cave, Washington * Cherney Maribel Caves County Park, Wisconsin * Clarks Cave, Virginia * Clarksville Cave, New York * Cliff Cave County Park, Cliff Cave, Missouri * Cold Water Spring State Preserve, Cold Water Cave, Iowa * Colossal Cave (Arizona), Colossal Cave, Arizona * Colossal Cavern, Colossal Cave, Kentucky * Conkling Cavern, New Mexico * Coronado Cave, Arizona * Cosmic Cavern, Arkansas * Coudersport Ice Mine, Pennsylvania * Craighead Caverns, Tennessee * Crystal Cave (Sequoia National Park), Crystal Cave, Sequoia National Park, California * Crystal Cave (Kentucky), Crystal Cave, Kentucky * Crystal Cave (Ohio), Crystal Cave, Ohio * Crystal Cave (Pennsylvania), Crystal Cave, Pennsylvania * Crystal Cave (Wisconsin), Crystal Cave, Wisconsin * Crystal Cavern, Alabama * Crystal Grottoes, Maryland * Cumberland Bone Cave, Maryland * Cumberland Caverns, Tennessee * Current River Cavern, Missouri * Danger Cave, Utah * Decorah Ice Cave State Preserve, Iowa * Derrick Cave, Oregon * DeSoto Caverns, Alabama * Devil's Den Cave, Florida * Devil's Kitchen (cave), Devil's Kitchen, Michigan * Devils Hole, Nevada * Diamond Caverns, Kentucky * Dixie Caverns, Virginia * Dunbar Cave State Park, Tennessee * Dust Cave, Alabama * Eagle Cave, Wisconsin * Ellenville Fault-Ice Caves, Ellenville Fault Ice Caves, New York * Eleven Jones Cave, Kentucky * Ellison's Cave, Georgia * Endless Caverns, Virginia * False Kiva, Utah * Fantastic Caverns, Missouri * Fern Cave National Wildlife Refuge, Alabama * Fern Grotto, Hawaii * Fisher Ridge Cave System, Kentucky * Florida Caverns, Florida * Fort Rock Cave, Oregon * Fox Cave, New Mexico * Franktown Cave, Colorado * Gap Cave, Virginia * Gardner Cave, Washington * Gillespie Cave, Tennessee * Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park, Glenwood Caverns, Colorado * Glover's Cave, Kentucky * Goochland Cave, Kentucky * Grand Caverns, Virginia * Grand Canyon Caverns, Arizona * Great Onyx Cave, Kentucky * Gypsum Cave, Nevada * Hall City Cave, California * Haynes Cave, West Virginia * Hellhole (cave), Hellhole, West Virginia * Hendrie River#Water Cave, Hendrie River Water Cave, Michigan * Hidden Cave, Nevada * Hobo Cave, Colorado * Hogup Cave, Utah * Horse Cave, Kentucky, Horse Cave, Kentucky * Horse Caves, Massachusetts * Horse Lava Tube System, Oregon * Howe Caverns, New York * Hubbard's Cave, Tennessee * Humboldt Cave, Nevada * Bixby State Preserve, Ice Cave, Iowa * Illinois Caverns State Natural Area, Illinois Caverns, Illinois * Indian Cave State Park, Nebraska * Indian Caverns, Pennsylvania * Indian Echo Caverns, Pennsylvania * Indian Jim's Cave, Virginia * Indiana Caverns, Indiana * Infernal Caverns, California * Inner Space Caverns, Texas * Jacobs Cavern, Missouri * Jacob's Well, Texas * Jewel Cave National Monument, Jewel Cave, South Dakota * Kartchner Caverns State Park, Kartchner Caverns, Arizona * Kazumura Cave, Hawaii * Key Cave National Wildlife Refuge, Alabama * Kickapoo Cavern State Park, Texas * King Phillip's Cave (Massachusetts), King Phillip's Cave, Massachusetts * Kingston Saltpeter Cave, Georgia * Kuna Caves, Idaho * Lake Shasta Caverns, California * Laurel Caverns, Pennsylvania * Lava Beds National Monument, California * Lava River Cave (Arizona), Lava River Cave, Arizona * Lava River Cave, Oregon * Lechuguilla Cave, New Mexico * Lehman Caves, Nevada * Leon Sinks Geological Area, Florida * Lewis and Clark Caverns, Montana * Linville Caverns, North Carolina * Lockport Cave, New York * Logan Cave National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas * Lookout Mountain Caverns, Tennessee * Lost Cove Cave, Tennessee * Lost River Cave, Kentucky * Lost River Caverns, Pennsylvania * Lost River Reservation, Lost River Gorge Cave, New Hampshire * Lost World Caverns, West Virginia * Lovelock Cave, Nevada * Luray Caverns, Virginia * Makauwahi Cave, Hawaii * Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky * Mammoth Cave (Utah), Mammoth Cave, Utah * Manitou Cave, Alabama * Mantle's Cave, Colorado * Maquoketa Caves State Park, Iowa * Marengo Cave, Indiana * Mark Twain Cave, Missouri * Marmes Rockshelter, Washington * Martin Ridge Cave System, Kentucky * Marvel Cave, Missouri * Mary Campbell Cave, Ohio * Mega Cavern, Kentucky * Meramec Caverns, Missouri * Mercer Caverns, California * Minnetonka Cave, Idaho * Mitchell Caverns, California * Moaning Cavern, California * Moqui Cave, Utah * Mud Caves, California * Mummy Cave, Wyoming * Forestville Mystery Cave State Park, Mystery Cave, Minnesota * Mystic Caverns and Crystal Dome, Arkansas * Natural Bridge Caverns, Texas * Natural Tunnel State Park, Virginia * Neffs Cave (Utah), Neffs Cave, Utah * Nickajack Cave, Tennessee * Niter Ice Cave, Idaho * Nutty Putty Cave, Utah * Ogdens Cave Natural Area Preserve, Virginia * Ohio Caverns, Ohio * Old Spanish Treasure Cave, Arkansas * Olentangy Indian Caverns, Ohio * Oligo-Nunk Cave System, Kentucky * Onondaga Cave State Park, Missouri * Onyx Cave (Arizona), Onyx Cave, Arizona * Onyx Cave (Arkansas), Onyx Cave, Arkansas * Onyx Cave (Newburg, Missouri), Onyx Cave, Missouri * Oregon Caves National Monument, Oregon * Organ Cave, West Virginia * Ozark Caverns, Missouri * Paisley Caves, Oregon * Paradise Ice Cave, Washington * Wes Skiles Peacock Springs State Park, Peacock Springs Cave System, Florida * Domtar mine, Pellerito Cave, Michigan * Pendejo Cave, New Mexico * Penn's Cave and Hotel, Penns Cave, Pennsylvania * Peppersauce Cave, Arizona * Petty John's Cave, Georgia * Pictograph Cave (Mountain View, Arkansas), Pictograph Cave, Arkansas * Pictograph Cave (Billings, Montana), Pictograph Cave, Montana * Pluto's Cave, California * Polar Caves Park, New Hampshire * Port Kennedy Bone Cave, Pennsylvania * Raccoon Mountain Caverns, Tennessee * Redmond Caves, Oregon * Research Cave, Missouri * Ricks Spring, Utah * Rickwood Caverns State Park, Alabama * Riverbluff Cave, Missouri * Robbers Cave State Park, Oklahoma * Rock Dove Cave, Texas * Ruby Falls, Ruby Falls Cave, Tennessee * Rushmore Cave, South Dakota * Russell Cave National Monument, Russell Cave, Alabama * Samuels' Cave, Wisconsin * Sandia Cave, New Mexico * Sandy Glacier Caves, Oregon * Sauta Cave National Wildlife Refuge, Alabama * Sea Lion Caves, Oregon * Seneca Caverns (Ohio), Seneca Caverns, Ohio * Seneca Caverns (West Virginia), Seneca Caverns, West Virginia * Shawnee Cave, Indiana * Shelta Cave, Alabama * Shelter Cave, New Mexico * Shenandoah Caverns, Virginia * Sinks of Gandy, West Virginia * Sitting Bull Crystal Caverns, South Dakota * Skeleton Cave (Arizona), Skeleton Cave, Arizona * Skeleton Cave (Oregon), Skeleton Cave, Oregon * Skull Cave (Mackinac Island), Skull Cave, Michigan * Skylight Cave, Oregon * Skyline Caverns, Virginia * Smoke Hole Caverns, West Virginia * Snail Shell Cave, Tennessee * Snowy River Cave, New Mexico * Spook Cave, Iowa * Squire Boone Caverns, Indiana * Spring Cave, Colorado * Spring Creek Cave, Texas * Spring Mill State Park, Indiana * Spring Valley Caverns, Minnesota * St. John Mine, Wisconsin * Clover Hollow Natural Area Preserve, Stay High Cave, Virginia * Talking Rocks Cavern, Missouri * Tears of the Turtle Cave, Montana * Thumping Dick Hollow, Tennessee * Timpanogos Cave National Monument, Utah * Toquima Cave, Nevada * Tory cave (Albany, New York), Tory Cave, New York * Tory's Cave (New Milford, Connecticut), Tory's Cave, Connecticut * Tory's Cave (Springfield, Vermont), Tory's Cave, Vermont * Tuckaleechee Caverns, Tennessee * Twin caves, Indiana * Tyson Spring Cave, Minnesota * Tytoona Cave, Pennsylvania * Unthanks Cave Natural Area Preserve, Virginia * Ursa Minor (cave), Ursa Minor, California * Ventana Cave, Arizona * Wabasha Street Caves, Minnesota * Wakulla Springs, Wakulla Cave, Florida * Warren's Cave, Florida * Weeki Wachee Springs, Florida * Wilson Butte Cave, Idaho * Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota * Wonder Cave (San Marcos, Texas), Wonder Cave, Texas * Wonderland Cave, Arkansas * Wyandotte Caves, Indiana * Zane Shawnee Caverns, Ohio

Caribbean

Aruba

* Aruba Natural Bridge * Quadiriki Caves

Barbados

* Animal Flower Cave * Harrison's Cave

Curaçao

* Hato Caves

Cuba

* Cuevas de Bellamar * Cueva de Saturno * La Gran Caverna de Santo Tomás

Dominican Republic

* Cuevas Fun Fun * Pomier Caves * Los Tres Ojos * Cuevas de las Maravillas

Haiti

* Bellony Cave * Kounoubwa Cave * Marie-Jeanne Cave

Jamaica

* Bad Hole Cave * Belmont Cave * Carambie Cave * Coffee River Cave * Dunn's Hole * Gourie Cave * Green Grotto Caves * Hutchinson's Hole * Jackson's Bay Cave * Long Mile Cave * Morgans Pond Hole * Mouth Maze Cave * Oxford Cave, Jamaica, Oxford Cave * Smokey Hole Cave * Swansea Cave * Thatchfield Great Cave * Windsor Great Cave * Xtabi

Puerto Rico

* Cueva de Los Indios * Cueva del Indio * Cuevas Las Cabachuelas * Cueva Lucero * Cueva Ventana * Parque Nacional de las Cavernas del Río Camuy * Pozo de Jacinto

Saint Lucia

* Bat Cave, Saint Lucia, Bat Cave

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

* Byahaut Bat Cave

Trinidad and Tobago

* Aripo Cave * Crusoe Cave * Cumaca Cave * Dunston Cave * La Vache * Lopinot Cave * Tamana caves

Turks and Caicos Islands

* Conch Bar Caves

South America

Argentina

* Cave 3, Los Toldos (Santa Cruz)#Cave 3, Los Toldos (Santa Cruz) * Cueva de la Bruja * Cueva de Gualicho * Cueva de las Manos * Cueva del Tigré * Witches' Cave

Bolivia

* Cavernas de Repechón * Ch'usiq Uta * Cueva del Diablo * Qala Qala

Brazil

* Abismo Guy Collet * Abismo Ouro Grosso * Areado Grande * Buraco das Araras (Goiás), Buraco das Araras, Goiás * Buraco das Araras (Mato Grosso do Sul), Buraco das Araras, Mato Grosso do Sul * Caverna Aroe Jari * Caverna da Pedra Pintada * Caverna da Tapagem * Caverna de Santana * Caverna dos Ecos * Cavernas do Peruaçu National Park * Conjunto Santa Rita * Conjunto São Mateus * Gruta Canabrava * Gruta Casa de Pedra * Gruta da Cabana * Gruta da Morena * Gruta da Torrinha * Grutas das Areias * Gruta de Maquiné * Gruta de Ubajara * Gruta do Centenário * Gruta do Janelão * Gruta do Lago Azul Natural Monument * Gruta do Padre * Gruta Olhos d'Água * Gruta Rei do Mato * Lapa da Mangabeira * Lapa do Convento * Lapa do Salitre * Lapa dos Brejões * Lapa Terra Ronca * Parque da Cascata * Poço Encantado * Serra do Ramalho * Toca da Barriguda * Toca da Boa Vista

Chile

Caves are ordered from north to south. * Cueva del Pirata * Cueva de los Pincheira * Catedral de Mármol * Cueva del Milodón Natural Monument, Cueva del Milodón * Cueva Fell

Colombia

* Cueva de los Guácharos, Guacharos Cave

Ecuador

* Cueva de los Tayos

Peru

* Chivateros * Guitarrero Cave * Hatun Uchku * Killa Mach'ay * Pikimachay * Pumawasi, Anta, Pumawasi * Qaqa Mach'ay * Shihual (Peru), Shihual * Sima Pumacocha * Tampu Mach'ay, Huancavelica, Tampu Mach'ay * Toquepala Caves

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

* Cave Cove

Suriname

* Werehpai

Uruguay

* Palace Cave

Venezuela

* Cueva Alfredo Jahn Natural Monument * Cueva de la Quebrada del Toro * Cueva del Fantasma * Cueva del Guácharo National Park, Cueva del Guácharo * Cueva del Saman * Cueva La Segunda Cascada * Cueva Los Encantos * Cueva Los Laureles * Cueva-Sumidero La Retirada * Haitón del Guarataro * Sima Aonda * Sima Aonda 2 * Sima Aonda 3 * Sima Auyantepui Noroeste * Sima Auyantepui Norte * Sima Humboldt * Sima Martel

Mars

seven putative cave entrances have been identified in satellite imagery of the planet Mars, all so far located on the flanks of Arsia Mons. A more recent photograph of one of the features shows sunlight illuminating a side wall, suggesting that it may simply be a vertical pit rather than an entrance to a larger underground space.

References

External links

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