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Image of La Lobera located in Mexico
Mexico

La Lobera

Huge hole looks down onto an underground beach populated with sea lions

It probably started small. Maybe a gopher dug a burrow, or perhaps the foot of a donkey broke through the ground. However, over the years, rain and gravity have grown that small hole in the roof... »

Watery Wonders, Geological Oddities | Edited by CPilgrim, Dylan and others

Image of Grutas de García located in Mexico | Aerial tramway from the base of Cerro del Fraile
Mexico

Grutas de García

Inside of a mountain lies several kilometers of breathtaking caves

In the mountains of Nuevo Leon, the northeastern-most Mexican state, and only a 30 km drive from Monterrey, are the Grutas de García. The caves were discovered in 1843 by Priest Juan Antonio... »

Curious Caves | Edited by Clinton and martofkukuf

Image of Museo de las Momias de Guanajuato located in Mexico | The World's Smallest Mummy
Mexico

Museo de las Momias de Guanajuato

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy"

Known as "natural mummification" it is the process by which corpses are naturally preserved. There are many different environments where natural mummification occurs, the extremely cold, very dry... »

Ossuaries, Mummies, Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries | Edited by michelle and re_nakaba

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