There, a fire pit known as the Darvaza Crater earned the name “Gates of Hell”—or “Door to Hell”—because it burns bright day and night. It’s hard to imagine such a thing, but in 2013 ...

In Turkmenistan there is an infernal place that is an atypical tourist attraction called the Darvaza Water Crater. It is a crater in the middle of the Karakum desert, 70 meters or around 300 feet ...

ASHGABAT, June 19. /TASS/. Specialists from the Turkmengas holding have drafted a plan to extinguish the Darvaza gas crater in the Karakum Desert, which has been on fire for more than fifty years ...

The Darvaza gas crater emerged when a drilling rig hit a gas reservoir, collapsing the ground and releasing vast amounts of methane. Igniting the gas was meant to last weeks, but the flames ...