9. Mammoth Cave National Park
You’ve definitely heard of Mammoth Cave National Park before. It’s a UNESCO world heritage site that preserves significant portions of the cave system on top of being known as the largest known cave system in the world.
Snapping more than 400 miles of charted passageways, you’ll have to book several days if you want to visit as much of it as possible during your trip. It was previously used as an indigenous burial site and has had cultural significance spanning more than 6,000 years before the European settlers arrived in North America.
The cave is open to the public for guided tours where you’ll visit features such as Fat Man’s Misery, Frozen Niagara, and Grand Avenue.
To top it all off, the cave has also served as inspiration for several internationally-recognized cultural works such as rock band Guided by Voices’ eponymous 1990 song Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick. Who knows, if you’re an artist you might find your muse in Mammoth Cave!
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I know of two other caves that are popular. In Utah The Timp cave in a mountain called Mt. Timpanogus. (Sp). Arizona the Kartchner Caves by David, Arizona
I vote antelope canyon!
Not only interesting, definitely educational. Thank you for sharing.
There is Longhorn Cavern outside of Burnet, Texas that is amazing run by the State of Texas that should be on this list. The colors are amazing. It was used as a hide out by the Comanche indians.
I’ve been to Carlsbad Caverns and Mammoth Cave and enjoyed
both experiences. Carlsbad was interesting to see when the bats
began their excursions to the outside.