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If you look at a map of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula , a keen eye may notice that although it is located in the tropics, and therefore receive...

BLDGBLOG recently pointed to a survey of the caves under the city of Nottingham .  Using laser imaging, they are producing incredibly detai...

A film-maker walks among 10m long crystals.  All images from stormchasers . The Naica Mine is a lead and zinc mine reaching some 300m below...

Continuing this spate of posts on caves, a clutch of images from National Geographic.  Fine examples of the magazine’s long history of outst...

While reading about caves with massive vertical drops, I found a some isometric maps of caves around Mount Velebit in Croatia.  First, Luki...

The 500m deep Miao Keng shaft, image via the Daily Mail . The area around the mountain village of Tian Xing seems to have an incredible ass...

In part 1 I described the hillside cave-monastery of Vardzia in the eastern European country of Georgia.  Now let’s turn our attention to t...

Open-cut mines dig massive, massive holes out of the earth, leaving behind the problem of how you go about remediating the site once the min...

Via Edible Geography , stills from a National Geographic video .  Carlos Barrios is lowered into the murky depths Mexico City has the extr...