Ursa Minor

This beautiful cave was discovered in 2006. The ceiling of the cave is sparkling due to millions of small crystals. The cave is rich with rare speleothems – several meters long soda straws, cave pearls, and others.

Moaning Cavern

Cave with vertical entrance shaft. Here have fallen and died prehistoric people and extinct animals. Water drops created a moaning sound that was heard outside the cave. This effect was lost when the cave opening was expanded for tourists.

Lilburn Cave

The longest known cave in California, 34.6 km long. Unusual feature is wonderful marble walls with white and black stripes as well as finds of 30 diverse minerals.

Crystal Cave in California

This 4.7 km long cave is opened to tourists. It has formed in marble and has beautiful cave formations that have been well preserved.

Black Chasm Cave

This cave is 956 m long and has unusual formations of helictites – horizontally growing speleothems.

Bigfoot Cave

An enormous cave, 20 km long and up to 367 m deep. This cave is very challenging to its explorers.

Wapama Falls

Enormous, 329 m tall waterfall with three drops. At high water the torrent floods the tourist passage at the base of falls.

Captain Jack Sparrow tree

Coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) with a diameter of 8.9 m. This is the largest (by trunk diameter) redwood that is announced to the public but it is possible that there are larger ones. Discovered in 2014.

Yosemite Valley

Up to 914 m deep, glacier carved cleft in granite rocks. Impressive landscape. A site of mass tourism with more than 4 million visitors per year.

Trona Pinnacles

Group of more than 500 tufa spires rising from the bed of dry Searles Lake. Spires are up to 43 m high.