Why it's incredible: The cave is so deep, the world's tallest building could fit inside it. The Hranice Abyss — or "Hranická propast," in Czech — is the deepest known freshwater cave in the world.

Imagine entering a cave and not realizing that beneath your feet lies a bottomless pit that could plunge you to great depths. Such was the Veryovkina Cave, the deepest-known cave on Earth, in the ...

I'm a severe claustrophobe. After getting trapped in a slide in my local McDonald's at five years old, I swore off all tight and dark spaces forever. So it's not entirely surprising that I couldn't ...

Beneath the Earth’s surface lies a world so extreme and isolated that it seems more like an alien planet than part of our own. Veryovkina Cave, the deepest known cave on Earth, plunges a staggering ...

A man lost his life in 2005 attempting to recover the body of 20-year-old fellow diver who vanished a decade earlier ...

The Hranicka Abyss is at least 1,325 feet deep, and likely goes down further. — -- A team of explorers believe they have discovered the deepest known underwater cavern the world in eastern Czech ...

(via MinuteEarth) Krubera Cave, one of our planet’s deepest known caves, extends 2200 meters into the earth – that’s a depth of nearly six Empire State Buildings. Or at least, that's as far down as ...

Archaeologists excavating a paleolithic cave site in Galilee, Israel, have found evidence that a deep-cave compound at the site may have been used for ritualistic gatherings, according to a new paper ...