About 2,000 feet under Lake Erie, 30 miles east of Cleveland in Fairport Harbor, Ohio, you'll find a vast site called the Morton Salt Mine. Since 1959, the Fairport Harbor Morton Salt Mine has ...

Photography can be a challenge on the Wieliczka salt mine tour. The lighting is dim in most places and you’re constantly moving, which makes it difficult to truly capture quality photos if you ...

The Wieliczka Salt Mine near Krakow is a marvel of human ingenuity and natural beauty, offering visitors a journey into an underground world of lakes, chapels, and chandeliers-all made of salt.

But extracting the coveted salt means descending into dark caves, then blasting and carrying heavy rock. Faizan Panjwani: The problem is the massive size of the blocks that come from the mine.

The site is a serial property consisting of Wieliczka and Bochnia salt mines and Wieliczka Saltworks Castle. The Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines illustrate the historic stages of the ...

"I'm not sure that people connect the large piles of salt to the massive mining operation happening 2,000 feet below the lake." Workers can enter the mine by taking a four-minute elevator ride.