This is definitely not a ranking. It is just a list of extraordinary big speleothems of various kinds. Most of them are located in wild caves which are not open to the public, so they are not listed on showcaves.com.
Type | Size | Cave | Location | Explanation | Picture |
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soda straw | 9.13 m | Wonder Cave | Gunung Mulu, Malaysia | Longest single soda straw | |
soda straw | 9.03 m | Unnamed Cave | Mexico | Longest soda straw group, several straws over 8 m in the group | |
soda straw | 5.43 m | Jewel Cave | Australia | The longest soda straw in an Australian show cave (probably worldwide) | |
rimstone pools | 22 m | Actun Kotob | Belize | Tallest rimstone dam | |
rimstone pools | 61 m | Tham Xe Bang Fai | Laos | Longest rimstone dam | |
rimstone pools | L=610 m, H=20 m | Wadi Sannur Cave | Egypt | Longest single rimstone dam formed on the surface. Wadi Sannur is a rare type of cave formed by roofing over of a giant surface rimstone dam at its spillover point. The rimstone dam was formed by a large thermal spring. | |
rimstone pools | 400 m | TinazTepe Mağarları | Turkey | Longest connected rimstone pool series | |
cave formation | 150 m | Lechuguilla Cave | New Mexico, U.S.A. | Flowstone cascade with greatest vertical extent, Neverland to Dead Sea | |
cave formation | 17,700 m | Fort Stanton Cave | New Mexico, U.S.A. | Longest continuous formation, white calcite crust in a stream channel named Snowy River Passage | |
gypsum | 1.98 m | Double Bopper Cave | Arizona, U.S.A. | Longest gypsum flower petal (supported) | |
gypsum | 11 m | Cave of Swords | Mexico | Longest selenite crystal | |
Cave Pearl | 290 m² | Gruta de las Canicas | Mexico | Some 200 million cave pearls cover the cave floor to a depth of more than a meter on 290 m², which makes this the biggest deposit of cave pearls. |