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China Claims it Has the World's Largest Supercave — But There's Competition

The word “supercave” conjures up visions of Superman’s Fortress of Solitude or the Bat Cave, but this week there’s a new champion of underground caverns: the Miao Room in China’s Gehibe Cave complex. To put this in perspective, the single room is nine times the size of the old Houston Astrodome. Photos of the Miao Room show impossibly tiny looking people standing amidst 15-story tall stalagmites, walking among rocks which first appear to be pebbles, but are actually the size of houses.