Turkmenistan’s authoritarian leader, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, has previously stated that he wants to snuff out the Gates of Hell once and for all (though the latest pronouncement came years ...

The Gate to Hell has been open since the 1980s – but it might finally be running out of gas. Deep in the arid desert of Turkmenistan, a huge crater has been burning with the wrath of a thousand flames ...

The Gate to Hell has been open since the 1980s – but it might finally be running out of gas. Deep in the arid desert of Turkmenistan, a huge crater has been burning with the wrath of a thousand ...

The Gate to Hell has been open since the 1980s – but it might finally be running out of gas. Deep in the arid desert of Turkmenistan, a huge crater has been burning with the wrath of a thousand ...

The Gate to Hell has been open since the 1980s – but it might finally be running out of gas. Deep in the arid desert of Turkmenistan, a huge crater has been burning with the wrath of a thousand flames ...

Currently, Turkmenistan’s Door to Hell measures roughly 230 feet wide by 100 feet deep, and often exceeds 1,832 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s estimated that the landmark attracts over 10,000 ...

The “Gates of Hell” have been furiously burning away in Turkmenistan for decades, but scientists now have reason to believe that it’s giving up the ghost.

Turkmenistan's tourists travel to the site to camp by the burning methane, and they’ll soon have to look elsewhere to find their next warm spot. The country’s leader, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov began ...

A shaky cease-fire between Israel and Iran, touted by President Trump, appears to have taken hold, though both countries ...

One of Turkmenistan’s most iconic landmarks, the infamous ‘Door to Hell’, a fiery natural gas crater which has been raging on for more than half a century has finally started to lose its ...

The ‘Gateway to Hell’, an enormous fire that has been raging in Turkmenistan for more than 50 years, has been tamed. (FILES) A picture taken on May 3, 2014, shows people visiting "The Gateway ...