The closest thing to hell on Earth lies in Turkmenistan’s Karakum Desert. There, a fire pit known as the Darvaza Crater earned the name “Gates of Hell”—or “Door to Hell”—because it ...

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Locals call it the “Door to Hell,” once you see it, the name makes total sense. This is a massive pit of flames in the middle of the Karakum Desert. It was created in 1971 when Soviet ...

The gas crater in the Karakum desert, 266 km away from Ashgabat ... was popularly nicknamed the "Door to Hell." Flame pillars erupting from a cavern below the crater. the result of natural ...

Located in Turkmenistan’s Karakum desert, the Darvaza crater is a massive man-made sinkhole that has been burning methane gas for decades. It has been said that it was intentionally set alight ...