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Lost World Caverns, located just outside Lewisburg, West Virginia, is a series of natural underground caverns featuring fascinating terraced pedestal-like stalagmites, curtains, flowstone, rimstone, domepits and waterfalls. The only entrance to the cave that was originally named Grapevine Cave was through a deep vertical drop local farmers used to dump trash. The cave was discovered in 1942 by the staff of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The cave was officially surveyed in the 1960s and found to have more than a mile of interconnected passages. Some of them are 245 feet below the surface. The remains of a prehistoric cave bear were found in the cave in 1967. In the early 1970s, the owner of the land on which the cave is found removed the trash, installed walkways, dug out the entrance and invited tourists to come. Today there is a small gift shop and dinosaur museum at the entrance.
Lost World Rd, Lewisburg, West Virginia 24901, Phone: 304-645-6677
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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