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Fantastic Caverns (1862) - Greene County; Friede's Cave (AKA Saltpeter Cave) (before 1865) - Phelps County; Graham Cave (1847) – Montgomery County; Jacobs Cavern (1903) - McDonald County; Mark Twain Cave (1886) - Marion County; Marvel Cave (1894) - Stone County; Meramec Caverns (1935) - Franklin County; Onondaga Cave (1897) - Crawford County
The Cave of Altamira (/ ˌ æ l t ə ˈ m ɪər ə / AL-tə-MEER-ə; Spanish: Cueva de Altamira [ˈkweβa ðe altaˈmiɾa]) is a cave complex, located near the historic town of Santillana del Mar in Cantabria, Spain. It is renowned for prehistoric cave art featuring charcoal drawings and polychrome paintings of contemporary local fauna and ...
Fantastic Caverns is a show cave located in Springfield, Missouri. Fantastic Caverns is the only cave in North America to offer a completely ride-through tour, which lasts 55 minutes and is held in a Jeep-drawn tram. [1] [2] The trams drive along the path left behind by an ancient underground river. [3]
Their half of the cave became known as Missouri Caverns, with Robert Lee Mook as the manager. Another problem for Onondaga came from the commercial opening of the nearby Cathedral Cave (owned by Timmerman Nielson and managed by Al Keber). [6] In 1932, Missouri Caverns was opened as the first electrically lit cave in the Missouri Ozarks region ...
The Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain (Cueva de Altamira y arte rupestre paleolítico del Norte de España) 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, Gravettian, Solutrean, Magdalenian, Azilian).
Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [1] There are 17 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted November 29, 2024. [2]
Mark Twain Cave — originally McDowell's Cave — is a show cave located near Hannibal, Missouri. It was named for author Mark Twain whose real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Clemens lived in Hannibal from 1839 to 1853, age 4 to 17. It is the oldest operating show cave in the state, giving tours continuously since 1886. [1]
Meramec State Park is a public recreation area located near Sullivan, Missouri, about 60 miles from St. Louis, along the Meramec River. [4] The park has diverse ecosystems such as hardwood forests and glades. There are over 40 caves located throughout the park, the bedrock is dolomite. The most famous is Fisher Cave, located