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Deep in the heart of Turkmenistan's Karakum Desert lies one of the most hauntingly beautiful places on Earth, the Darvaza Gas Crater, better known as the "Door to Hell." This is a blazing pit of fire ...

Rarely does an industrial accident develop into a major tourist attraction. But when a Soviet exploratory team drilled for natural gas in Turkmenistan more than 50 years ago, they are said to have set ...

There are no written Soviet records, no logs, no official drilling reports, and no confirmation that they'd lit it intentionally – but there's no disputing a ~100-foot-deep (~30-m), 226-foot-wide ...

The ‘Gateway to Hell’, an enormous fire that has been raging in Turkmenistan for more than 50 years, has been tamed. The Turkmenistan government said that the authorities have been able to ...

The site in Turkmenistan burns through millions of cubic meters of natural gas each year. The exact cause behind the Darvaza Gas Crater—also known as the Shining of Karakum—remains a mystery, but ...