These locations found on earth are hot for their own reasons
Furnace Creek: Part of Death Valley, California, this alleged oasis once held Earth’s hottest temperature record. it is home to very few people, notably because of high temperature and is one of the most reliably tested spots on the planet for average high temperatures. The record there was 57C.
Naica: A silver producing Mexican mine home to massive selenite crystals and one of the hottest visible caves in the world. It is home to some of the most picturesque and otherworldly selenite crystals in the world, but to get to them you need to sink 300 metres below the desert’s surface and brave intense heat and humidity.The overpowering heat which often reaches as high as 58C with 100% humidity.
Beppu: Home of a blood-red, boiling hot spring in Japan. One of a series of nine hot springs on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu. It is blood red in color due to its mineral rich mud. They reach a temperature of 78C.
Darvaza: Literally called the “Gates of Hell’’, a flaming pit of methane in Turkmenistan. Home to a 230-foot- wide pit formed in the early 1970s. Because the area is rich in oil and natural gas, the inevitable seemed to happen. Poor drilling procedures from a Soviet rig punched this hole into the Earth and set ablaze, leading to a national hotspot that’s been on fire ever since.
Dallol: The Ethiopian town broke the record for hottest average temperature of any inhabited place in the world. The Danakil Depression in the Afar Region of Ethiopia almost seems like it should be on another planet. The region is dotted with hot springs and mineral deposits. It has a fairly consistent temperature that hovers around 40C.
Tian Shah: Home to the red sandstone Flaming mountains, China, measured from space as the hottest locations on Earth. In 2008, NASA checked soil temperature using recording devices from space, they got a reading of 149C.
Holuhraun: Iceland, one of the hottest single volcanic eruptions in the world. It held the record for the most heat output in a single event when it erupted in 2014. Iceland, of course is a land of ice and fire, its geothermal activity is famous.
Yanar Dag: A hillside in Azerbaijan known for its continual burning fires of natural gas. Situated on the Caspian Sea, it is an oil rich nation with natural resources in spades. Sitting near the Absheron Peninsula, the hillside has been on fire since the 1950s, jetting out from the sandstone. It is also a site of pilgrimage, The Fire Temple for Zoroastrian believers.
Yasur: A stratovolcano in Vanuatu known for having been in constant eruption for hundreds of years. It is also a site of great cultural importance to the people who reside on this isolated island nations. Visitors can get fairly close on any given day and marvel at the Strombolian lava plumes.
Dasht-e-Lut: A hyper-arid Iranian desert named after the Old Testament Prophet. The Lut Desert of Iran is named after the Prophet Lot of the Old Testament, whose wife turned back and became a pillar of salt. It is hot there, unsurprisingly, with consistently hot surface temperatures, the soil there reaches a near consistent 70C. The region is so dry that plants don’t grow and there is no rainwater or rainy season. The nearby Dasht-e-Kavir has the nickname “The Great Salt Desert”.
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