Remarkable Cave Houses (35 Pics)

The Yunak Evleri Cave Hotel, Urgup, Cappadocia, Turkey

This hotel is a combination of six cave houses with a total of 39 rooms from the 5th and 6th centuries and a 200-year-old Greek mansion.

Cave homes and a chapel in Louresse-Rochemenier, France

Ancient Cliff Houses of Guyaju, near Zhangshanying, China

The home of Henri Grevellec, Grezille, France

This cave belongs to a retired teacher who is one of the thousands of cave-dwelling people in France known as troglodytes. The man bought the cave, which housed quarry workers centuries ago,


Sassi di Matera, Matera, Italy

These houses were dug into the rock itself, and it's the only place in the world where people have been continuously inhabiting the sames houses for the last 9,000 years.

The Cave House, Bisbee, Arizona

The 2,980 sq ft (277 sq m) home has no water, cooling, or heating bills, thanks to a natural spring and a really efficient pellet fireplace. The cave wasn't naturally formed; it was blasted out by a specialist in the mid-1980s.

The Sleeper Cave House, Festus, Missouri

The home of William "Curt" Sleeper and his family is in a 17,000 square foot (1580 sq m) hole that had been used as a roller skating rink and a concert venue. The cave has geothermal heating and a really cool interior.


Domus Civita, Civita di Bagnoregio, Italy

The 2500-year-old town founded by Etruscans has some tunnels, caves, and Roman water cisterns, and that's what makes the Domus Civita the best house ever. It has a secret garden, a pool with a hot tub, a wine cellar, and some minimalistic but wonderful underground rooms.

Matmata, Tunisia

The homes of the small Berber town Matmata are artificial caves, later used as a filming location for Star Wars:Episode IV: A New Hope.


Cappadocia, Turkey

The rock-cut houses and temples of the more than 200 underground villages and tunnel towns have survived the last 2,000 years and some of them are still occupied.

Cave Houses of Andalucía, Spain

Petra, Jordan

These residences were established in the early 4th Century, and remained unknown to the Western world until 1812.

J.R.R Tolkien's inspiration: Kinver Edge, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

These houses were excavated into the local sandstone and inhabited until the late 1950s, but now the whole site is preserved by the National Trust.



The village of Zhongdong, Ziyun county, China

This naturally occuring cave at 1800 meters above sea level includes a whole village that was settled after the 1949 Communist Revolution. The houses have shaved bamboo walls and have no roofs.