The Gates of Hell

The doors to Heaven and Hell are adjacent and identical.

                                                                                                         Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation of Christ

The Gates of Hell are located at Stanford University, and are part of the B. Gerald Cantor Rodin Sculpture Garden.  Auguste Rodin’s original plaster (which he chiseled away at off and on for thirty-seven years until his death) is showcased in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.  Below is a slideshow of the bronze cast of the massive doors which depict scenes from the Dante’s Inferno.  In the epic poem, an inscription above the gates reads:

Through me you pass into the city of woe
Through me you pass into eternal pain
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric moved:                                    
To rear me was the task of Power divine,
Supremest Wisdom, and primeval Love                 
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I endure.                                  
Abandon all hope, ye who enter.

All this reminds me of the old riddle:

You have died and are in limbo. There are two doors. One door leads to heaven, and the other door leads to hell.  There are two guardians, one by each door. One guardian always tells the truth, and the other guardian always lies. What one question can you ask a guardian to find out which door leads to heaven?