Watch an explorer share what it's like to descend into the Darvaza Gas Crater, also known as the “Gates of Hell.” ...

Looking west over the city walls of Khiva, it's easy to imagine a guardsman watching out for exhausted traders making their way across the dusty Karakum desert towards the ancient city ...

THE Gates of Hell are a staple of both theology and pop culture, in both a doorway to an otherworldly realm usually depicted ...

Located in Turkmenistan’s Karakum desert, the Darvaza crater is a massive man-made sinkhole that has been burning methane gas for decades. It has been said that it was intentionally set alight ...

According to the scientist, cryo deserts look like deserts of tropical or subtropical regions such as the Sahara in Africa, the Karakum Desert in Central Asia, or the Atacama in South America.