Beautifully bizarre places around the world

In the middle of a vast, empty desert, a fire has burned for over 42 years! The Door to Hell, a fiery crater in the Turkmenistan Desert, has been burning since 1971. The crater was thought to be releasing methane gas, so scientists tried to burn it off—and the fires have been going ever since. (Text by Reva Vidyalankar)

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