"Any animal that passes inside meets instant death. I threw in sparrows and they immediately breathed their last and fell." ...

Priests would carry sacrificial animals down through the door, known as Pluto’s Gate ... Caspar Peucer claimed that the gates to hell could be found in “the bottomless abyss of Hekla Fell ...

There, a fire pit known as the Darvaza Crater earned the name “Gates of Hell”—or “Door to Hell”—because ... methane-rich environments. The team found some, indicating that planets ...

It has become a popular tourist spot in Turkmenistan. The crater, known informally to people and tourists as the "Door to Hell," has officially been dubbed the "Shining of Karakum" since 2018.