The caverns are beautiful with some very unique formations of stalactites and stalacmites. My father in law has a nice mnemonic for stalactites and stalacmites. Stalacmites hold on to the ceiling tightly least they fall, so they are the ones hanging from the top. Stalacmites ofcourse then are the once they grow from the bottom.
There was a guide who took us through the underground caves and described the variou
s formations to us. The first picture is of a formation looks like an ugly set of teeth. The next looks like the rear side of a lion.
That's Dadu taking the photo of a huge stalactite formation that looks like a waterfall. 
As you go deepers that are large columns twenty to thirty feet high.Here is the photo of a stalactite and a stalacmite about to meet.
If undisturbed they are probably going to meet in the next ten thousand or so years!
This next formation looks like an omellette being cooked. As you descend deep inside there is something called the great hall. Its a large wide open space about one hundered feet beneath the earth's surface. 
Using the stalactites an innovative musical instrument has been made that sounds amazing. It gives you the interface of an organ that you can play. Its called the stalacpipe organ. Several couples get married in Luray caverns in the grat hall!
Unique to Luray caverns is a crystal formation called Anthrite that is found only in this one place on earth. In fact, the only other place where Anthrite can be grown is in space. This is because it need close to vaccuum environment to grow. It so happened that, a small low pressure cavity was sealed off for several tens of thousands of years in this area helping create Anthrite in Luray caverns. When an explorer broke it open, he was sucked in and these formations were discovered.The entire trip took us an hour or so, but I absolutely loved every second of it.
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