Hell's Door in Turkmenistan

In the midst Karakoum (Turkmenistan) desert, close to
disappearing village called Darvaza, there are approximately one crater
hundred meters in diameter and more than twenty meters from the depths,
called "door of hell." Inside this well, the fire had burned for
tens of years, the fire that seemed endless. The Darvaza better not
a work of nature, but the result of poor Soviet mining
prospecting began in the 50's. In 1971, drilling which provoke
collapse of an underground cavity, so revealing gaping holes
leakage of gas in large quantities. The geologists decided to torch
wells to remove toxic gas like that, it's too underrated soviet
cavity dimensions: gas should burn
in a few weeks has really kept burning without interruption since
1971! It is unknown how long "» gates of Hell «will continue
burning. Although Darvaza wells located in an area difficult
access, many people gathered there to watch this exciting
phenomenon. The intense heat coming from the crater allowed to approach
place only for a few minutes as the temperature is unbearable.
At night, this event Dantean: fire burning in all the splendor that, providing
wells display a burning volcano.