Rooms of Crystal

Ohio History

Crystal Shelf

 After a good 10 or 15 minutes of walking through rock-walled tunnels, we got our first glimpse of real crystals. The tour we took, called the Natural Wonders tours, traversed through four different "rooms" inhabited by hundreds of crystals. So above is the first "room." The crystals hung from low rocky roofs and grew from corresponding rock "shelves" about four to five feet high. The space between the two rock ledges ranged from two feet to six inches. It felt like looking into a kaleidoscope: rainbow-colored rock backdropped hundreds of miniature white "icicles." A mesmerizing view, to say the least.