The World's Most DANGEROUS Attractions

2023. 2. 14. 20:55■ 사진/촬영지 소개

 

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The World's Most DANGEROUS Attractions

Looking for an adventure with an added element of danger? Here are some places that should be on every intrepid explorer’s hit list.

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The World's Most DANGEROUS Attractions

Story by loveEXPLORING staff  17h ago
6 of 49 Photos in Gallery The frisson of fear associated with peering over the edge of a fiery cavernous pit has made Turkmenistan’s Darvaza Gas Crater another unlikely attraction. Known as the “Gates of Hell”, the flaming inferno formed in the Seventies when Soviet geologists drilled into a cave for oil, causing its natural gas field to collapse. They set it alight to burn off the toxic gas. Decades later and it’s still blazing away beneath the barren landscape of the remote Karakum Desert.
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Darvaza Gas Crater, Turkmenistan

The frisson of fear associated with peering over the edge of a fiery cavernous pit has made Turkmenistan’s Darvaza Gas Crater another unlikely attraction. Known as the “Gates of Hell”, the flaming inferno formed in the Seventies when Soviet geologists drilled into a cave for oil, causing its natural gas field to collapse. They set it alight to burn off the toxic gas. Decades later and it’s still blazing away beneath the barren landscape of the remote Karakum Desert.