This portion of the main Carlsbad Cavern room offers the illusion that hundreds of needle-sharp teeth are pointed down and poised to chomp. Instead, each stalactite is the collective residue of a single dripping seep, solidified from solution a drop at a time over many millennia. Amidst them sits a bottle-shaped stalagmite that has grown into the ceiling.
4 W Whites City NM (9 Jun 14) Underground