Jul. 25—ROCHESTER — If you happen upon a depression in a hillside, a hole in the ground that leads to water-carved tunnels, know this: Jesse James likely never slept there. Furthermore, no horses, ...

A natural pool inside the cave at Forestville/Mystery Cave State Park - Sophia Sanchez / Google Reviews Minnesota may be known as the Land of 10,000 Lakes, but perhaps it should be just as well-known ...

Dawn Ryan (front), cave manager at Forestville/Mystery Cave State Park in southeast Minnesota's Fillmore County, and Krista McDermid from Zara Environmental during recent research to inventory animal ...

FILLMORE COUNTY, Minn. — The Fillmore County countryside contains thousands of acres of green, lush farmland, but some people here believe what's below the surface is just as beautiful. "There are ...

Southeastern Minnesota and northeastern Iowa are prime cave terrain, with soluble rock such as limestone eroded over time by running water. For a person on the surface, sinkholes are a clue to finding ...

WINONA, Minn. (AP) - Descending into a cave means entering a new world. There is no weather. The temperature remains steady year-round at 48 degrees. The cave's movement is barely perceptible. It ...

SPRING VALLEY, Minn. (AP) — John Ackerman is a big-time landlord of subterranean real estate. Ackerman, 59, owns Spring Valley Caverns, the largest private cave in Minnesota but just the beginning of ...

Greg Brick's favorite place in Rochester is a real hole. Brick, you see, is a cave aficionado, and he enjoys being underground, particularly in the cave at Rochester's Quarry Hill Nature Center. "I ...

"Many subterranean palaces are said to be found in Minnesota," wrote Swedish author Fredrika Bremer in her 1853 book, "The Homes of the New World." Some of these "palaces" today are open to the public ...