Earth’s 8 Weirdest Cave Systems

Speaking of cliché, yes. I am including the deepest cave in the world on this list. But can you blame me? Part of the wonder—and indeed, terror—of the world’s subterranean spaces is their depths.

Veryovkina Cave is in Abkhazia, an internationally recognized part of Georgia. The cave is over 7,200 feet deep; the image above shows the cave’s largest shaft. It takes nearly a week to traverse the cave to the bottom and back, and if you refer to the below image, you can see how labyrinthine the cave passageways become deep under the mountain.