Awesomely Awful Places

Welcome to the world’s most awesomely awful places

Turkmenistan’s Door to Hell is a giant fire-filled pit in the middle of a barren desert—and it isn’t the only earthly destination that’s been compared to the underworld. Take Italy’s Phlegrean Fields, where “the ground moves, the earth shakes, and scalding, stinking steam rises from hissing fissures.” (More)

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