Near the lonely little village of Murchison, New Zealand, a strange phenomenon is taking place since the 1920s, or at least that is what I have read, when a couple of hunters stop to smoke, igniting the gas. The natural methane gas comes to the surface continously from the ground. It's amazing and also very extrange to see a flame leaking from the earth itself, but make no mistake: the flame is continous, but somedays, after heavy rains, the gas has to be igniting again. It's an unknown place for tourist and even the native ones, but there's a family that uses the flames to cook and boil water if they want to invite the visitors to sit and drink a hot tea.
Also, there are at least another nine places all over the world where natural gas is leaked from the ground. The two best known are located in Olympos Mount, in Turkey, where they've been blazing for at least 2500 years and also in the sacred temple of Jwalamukhi, in India, where they've been worshipped as a deity.
Source: http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20150810-new-zealands-never-ending-fire
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