BY: DANIEL WATERBORNE When Angelo Mastropietro was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, he decided to do something most faced with his situation wouldn’t… He excavated 70 tonnes of stone by hand to build the ultimate cave-home inside an 800-year-old sandstone cliff.…
Residents of this underground town live invisible to the eyes of surface dwellers
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Desert temperatures that exceed 104 degrees Fahrenheit have left the surface inhospitable—which is why over half of the town’s 2,000 citizens live underground. Coober Pedy, a small town in South Australia, sits upon the edge of a…
This couple bought a cave for $1 and turned it into an incredible tiny home
BY ZOE MELNYK With a steep housing market and difficulty finding a stable job, young people are turning to cave homes for a more affordable alternative. This young couple in particular, Alexis Lamoureux and Lotte van Riel, managed to buy…
Breathtaking time-lapse of glowworm caves is the coolest thing you’ll see today
BY: JESSICA BEUKER New Zealand is home to a multitude of what are known as glowworm caves. The glowworms hang from silk nests and radiate soft illumination, the effect making the caves look like a blanket of twinkling stars. Recently,…
You can live for free in this beautiful gypsy cave-village in Spain (photos)
BY: TED BARNABY In the hills above Granada, Spain, lives a bright community of cave-dwelling free spirits occupying the tall white rock of Sacromonte. Their homes are a mix of rustic, simple beauty, and claustrophobia. Windows are often scarce in…