The most amazing place on earth - "Gates of Hell". Bashny.Net

Turkmenistan ranks fourth in the world in natural gas reserves and the crater of Darvaza is located in the heart of the gas field in the Akhal region, about 270 kilometers north of the capital, Ashgabat.

Although the origin of this phenomenon is still disputed, considered true story, according to which the Soviet geologists in 1971 drilled wells for the exploration of gas and stumbled upon an underground void. Fearing the severity of gas emanating from the resulting hole, the scientists decided to set fire to it, believing that gas will soon burn out. Do not burned until now.
It is a unique place called "The Door to hell" or "the gates of hell».