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Image of Troglodyte Village located in Kandovan, Iran | Troglodyte dwellings in Iran's village of Kandovan.
Kandovan, Iran

Troglodyte Village

Modern-day cave dwellers carve elaborate homes out of volcanic debris

Tucked away in the remote northwest corner of Iran is a village where residents live as modern-day cave dwellers. Current residents of Kandovan, a tourist village in the province of East... »

Geological Oddities, Curious Caves, Lost Tribes, Eccentric Homes, Outsider Architecture | Edited by Nicholas Jackson

Image of 3N Cave: Worlds Largest Salt Cave located in Iran
Iran

3N Cave: Worlds Largest Salt Cave

Recently discovered, the worlds largest salt cave is filled with fragile salt sculptures, salt rivers and huge salt megadomes

Salt caves are, at least in a geological sense, very much alive. While, like other caves of chalk, marble or gypsum the rock is dissolved by water that seeps in through cracks, unlike the other... »

Natural Wonders, Geological Oddities, Wonders of Salt, Curious Caves | Edited by

Image of Pigeon Towers of Iran located in Esfahan, Iran
Esfahan, Iran

Pigeon Towers of Iran

These little castles each held thousands of pigeons

For most city dwellers, pigeons are categorized along with rats, cockroaches and mice as vermin. Not so in 16th and 17th century Iran. Domesticated, pigeons were a valuable resource, or rather,... »

Outsider Architecture | Edited by Dylan and re_nakaba

Image of Salt Men of Iran located in Shahrabad, Iran
Shahrabad, Iran

Salt Men of Iran

Salt cured mummies continue to turn up in this Iranian mine

While bulldozing salt from the Chehrabad Salt Mine, Iranian miners recently uncovered the sixth "salt man" to be found in the last fifteen years. These "salt men" are in fact ancient corpses... »

Wonders of Salt, Curious Caves, Mummies | Edited by Dylan and mikan

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