Turkmenistan's Darvaza gas crater, dubbed the 'Gates of Hell', burns continuously. This fiery pit originated from a 1971 ...

Why it's incredible: The entire gas crater has been on fire for more than 50 years. The "Gates of Hell," also known as the Darvaza gas crater after a nearby village, is a methane- and fire-filled ...

Deep in the Karakum Desert of Turkmenistan lies one of the most mysterious places on Earth — the Darvaza Gas Crater, better ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock One of the world's most unusual tourist sites may be losing some of its intensity. In Turkmenistan's remote ...

The Darvaza crater, known as the "Gates to Hell," lies deep in territory of the isolated Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan.