# Has Anyone Built House Inside a Cave? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 14, 2008, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-built-house-inside-a-cave/441340 "2008-03-14T07:03:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-built-house-inside-a-cave/441340/21 "2008-03-14T17:32:27Z")
[QUOTE=Cisco] Well, I’m officially a dumbass. I saw the sign when my wife and I were vacationing there last year, and I thought they literally wanted you to stop and look at a hole in a rock. :smack: [/QUOTE] I bet you obeyed all those sings along the way that said “Clean Restroom” too. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![aktep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@aktep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aktep)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-built-house-inside-a-cave/441340/22 "2008-03-14T19:16:24Z")
HGTV’s What’s with that house has featured [A house in a cliff](http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/shows_hwth/episode/0,2756,HGTV_24598_44518,00.html) [A “cave” dynamited into the side of a mountain](http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/shows_hwth/episode/0,2756,HGTV_24598_49540,00.html) And it must have been a different show, but I think saw another one where the house was built into a mountain that is/was used for skiing. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-built-house-inside-a-cave/441340/23 "2008-03-14T21:11:13Z")
[QUOTE=Quartz] Looks like it might not have high-speed low-latency internet access. And it’s just a tad isolated: an otherwise trivial accident could easily be fatal. [/QUOTE] I didn’t read the whole website; I just remember seeing it profiled on TV. I’d imagine if you decide to move into a missile silo you carefully consider your needs. ---
**Author:** ![SmellMyWort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SmellMyWort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmellMyWort)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-built-house-inside-a-cave/441340/24 "2008-03-14T21:49:46Z")
The opal miners in White Cliffs, NSW, Australia lived in the caves produced through their mining. I had the fortune of staying in one. I’m not sure how much mining is still done, but people still reside in the caves. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-built-house-inside-a-cave/441340/25 "2008-03-14T22:17:10Z")
[QUOTE=Joey P] I bet you obeyed all those sings along the way that said “Clean Restroom” too. 😃 [/QUOTE] Oh there’s a huuuuuuuuge restroom between Phoenix and Moab. I stopped and used it 2 or 3 times :D. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-built-house-inside-a-cave/441340/26 "2008-03-14T22:57:48Z")
[QUOTE=Joey P] I think I’d be worried about being trapped on a lower floor. Be it a fire above me or a collapsed staircase, you’re kinda fucked. [/QUOTE] Yeah. Not to mention the truly ancient Deep Crow in Power Dome A. Let’s put it this way. Don’t go into Power Dome A. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-built-house-inside-a-cave/441340/27 "2008-03-14T23:42:49Z")
Back around 1880, some wacky doctor was convinced that cave air was a cure for tuberculosis-so he constructed cabins deep inside mammoth Cave 9in Kentucky). anybody know if these still exist? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2008, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-built-house-inside-a-cave/441340/28 "2008-03-15T01:08:18Z")
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.” I managed to stumble across a [website](http://www.ourhobbithole.com/) by someone whose dream is to build and live in a hobbit hole. ---
**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2008, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-built-house-inside-a-cave/441340/29 "2008-03-15T01:22:31Z")
I just remembered the Ohio Pyramid House, in Hamilton!, OH, which is underground, too. I found a link referencing it and a lot of other interesting homes: [http://www.jiancai365.cn/decorating/Unusual-Architecture-From-Around-the-World.htm](http://www.jiancai365.cn/decorating/Unusual-Architecture-From-Around-the-World.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2008, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-built-house-inside-a-cave/441340/30 "2008-03-15T04:13:16Z")
[QUOTE=Cabbage] I just remembered the Ohio Pyramid House, in Hamilton!, OH, which is underground, too. I found a link referencing it and a lot of other interesting homes: [http://www.jiancai365.cn/decorating/Unusual-Architecture-From-Around-the-World.htm](http://www.jiancai365.cn/decorating/Unusual-Architecture-From-Around-the-World.htm) [/QUOTE] [slight hijack]About half way down the page, there’s a picture of a “Thin House” in London. Wouldn’t that be like living in your childhood ant farm? :)[carry on] ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2008, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-built-house-inside-a-cave/441340/31 "2008-03-15T06:03:55Z")
[Hole "N The Rock](http://www.theholeintherock.com/photos.html) ---
**Author:** ![Gus\_Handsome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@Gus\_Handsome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gus_Handsome)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2008, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-built-house-inside-a-cave/441340/32 "2008-03-15T06:59:06Z")
Awesome! Thanks for all the links everyone, I’m now going to kick back and read all the posts. Gus ---
**Author:** ![Lazlo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lazlo/32/9678_2.png) [@Lazlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazlo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2008, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-built-house-inside-a-cave/441340/33 "2008-03-15T09:30:23Z")
[QUOTE=blondebear] [Hole "N The Rock](http://www.theholeintherock.com/photos.html) [/QUOTE] Check out post #9 (I was about to post the very same thing). 😃 I saw Hole 'n the Rock when I was a kid and if memory serves, it’s worth the stop. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2008, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-built-house-inside-a-cave/441340/34 "2008-03-15T15:59:21Z")
Oops. Yep–once I actually bother to read the posts instead of searching the thread for _“Hole in”_ – there’s the link. What I remember most about the the tour is the young guide, not quite comfortable with his spiel, and Harry the stuffed donkey. A classic American roadside attraction! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-built-house-inside-a-cave/441340.md?page=1)