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It could all end one year from now on December 21, 2012. Or not. The prophecies and speculations about what might happen on the last day of a 5,125-year-long cycle in the Maya calendar are, well, endless. For you planners and you naysayers, we've compiled a list of the top 10 destinations to witness the event (or nonevent). These cool bunkers, mystical sites, places with ironic names, and culturally significant locations are great spots to go out having the time of your life, even if the end of days is a no-show. Hell's Door (Darvaza Gas Crater) Derweze, Turkmenistan The entrance to the underworld: Just north of the Iran border, natural-gas vents feed a sunken inferno in the middle of the Karakum Desert that constantly burns. If you can stand the heat, walk right up to the edge of the football-field-sized hole and look in at the blaze locals have dubbed "The Door to Hell." Fingers crossed that the doors don't swing open when you're there at world's end. Get there on an ...