In China, Fengdu has a long history in the Taoist tradition of being a portal to hell. [12]
Hellam Township near York, Pennsylvania , is the subject of a modern urban legend claiming that it contains the Seven Gates of Hell .[13]
In Derweze , Turkmenistan a burning natural gas fire in the middle of the
Karakum Desert is known as the Door to Hell . [14]
Mount Osore in northern Japan is said to be an entrance to hell. [15][16]
On the north western-most army outpost in India, during the India Chinese war in 1962 , the snow covered
Murgo ("the gateway of death" in
Yarkandi , Uyghur ) where Chinese army advance stopped is called the Gate of Hell by the Yarkandi tribal people who cross Karakoram Pass with their caravans.