Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rarely does an industrial accident develop into a major tourist attraction. But when a Soviet exploratory team drilled for natural ...

Flames have burned for more than half a century inside a natural-gas crater near Darvaza in Turkmenistan’s Karakum Desert.

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 Darvaza gas crater, famously called the “Gates of Hell,” is showing a significant decline in its flames after burning for over five decades. Officials attribute the dimming to methane ...

For more than half a century, a giant crater of fire has glowed in the middle of Turkmenistan's Karakum Desert, drawing travellers from around the world and earning the nicknames “door to hell” or ...

The ‘Gateway to Hell’ was once a pit of blazing red flames and glowing red embers in the middle of the Turkmen desert – Copyright AFP Idriss BIGOU-GILLES People ...

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, ...

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 ...