Darvaza, Turkmenistan (CNN) — 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 ...

Turkmenistan's Karakum Desert hosts a fiery pit, the Darvaza Gas Crater, nicknamed the Door to Hell. This site has blazed for ...

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 ...

Turkmenistan's president has ordered experts to find a way to extinguish the blazing Darvaza natural gas crater dubbed the "Gateway to Hell." Also known as the "Gates of Hall," the crater has burned ...

Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has called for the “Gates of Hell” natural gas fire to be put out after half a century. Berdimuhamedov called for a new effort to end the fire, citing the ...

The Darvaza Natural Gas Crater is a vast, fiery pit, measuring 200 feet wide and 65 feet deep. For the past 50 years, it’s been smoldering away in the middle of the Karakum desert, in the central ...