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The Door to Hell

by Andy Ball February 11, 2010
the flaming crater

In the expansive Karakum desert of Turkmenistan, near the 350 person village of Derweze, is a 328 feet wide hole. This hole has been on fire, continuously, for the last 38 years.

Known as the Darvaza Gas Crater or the “Door to Hell” by locals, the crater can be seen glowing for miles around.

The hole is [...]

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Brick Icicles

by Andy Ball December 30, 2009
brick icicles

This abandoned Russian fortress is one of the creepiest places we’ve seen. The reason it looks this way is that the Russian army used the abandoned fortress to test the influence of Russian alternative to napalm inside of the brick houses. Due to very high temperature of napalm the bricks started melting just like ice [...]

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The Craziest Island in the World

by Andy Ball July 19, 2009

The Socotra Islands are a small archipelago made up of of four islands in the Indian Ocean off the coast of the Horn of Africa some 190 nautical miles south of the Arabian peninsula. They are extremely isolated, so much so that a third of its plant life is found nowhere else on the planet. [...]

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