You're near enough...just kidding.
Ahem...here goes.
Based on what I know at this point in time.
The traditional view of hell that the unreligious (and a lot of religious) hold is the flaming cave in the center of the planet where demons carry pitchforks and all the bad people get punished forever, and ever, and ever... your skin burns off causing you excrutiating pain, only to regenerate so it can get burnt off again, over and over forever and ever. You get the picture.
However, this is of non-bible origin, in fact it is from the Egyptian view of eternity, with their "gods" Isis and Osiris etc. (gods that don't actually exist).
The ancient Israelites never had this view of the afterlife in their teachings.
I'm a bit rusty on this, so don't quote me.
If you pick up a bible today, what you are holding is an interpretation, or translation, of the original text which was written in Hebrew (old testament) or Greek (new testament). As such, there are some differences in sentence structure between English and Greek, so the translators sometimes used "filler" words to make it read normally for us. In the King James translation, words not found in the original text are italicized.
Anyway, around the time the bible was translated (1611 by commission of King James of England), there was a word in use in common language in that part of the world (England). That word was "hell".
This word meant "the unseen" or "covered" or something similar. Remember that this was a word used in the tranlator's language, not Jesus or anyone else back then.
Bible translations are known for their variance from the original text. You've got the King James, the New King James, the NIV, and many more. Each reads differently and cater to different people.
The thing is, they are all derived from the original Greek and Hebrew texts, so you've basically got a whole bunch of "interpretations" of the bible.
Where the translators use the word "hell", the original text refers either to the grave (where dead bodies go, in the ground or a cave with a stone rolled across it etc.), or the valley of Hinmon just outside Jerusalem.
If you've ever read the new testament, you've probably encountered scriptures that say "death and hell", these two words occurring together. It's referring to death and the grave. The translators, for some unknown reason, have substituted the word "hell" for grave.
As for the valley of Hinmon, it was the city garbage dump. In this valley, they would throw dead bodies, rubbish and whatever else, then set it all on fire to destroy it all, probably for sanitary purposes and to prevent disease.
This is why there are scriptures where Jesus says stuff like, "where the worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched...". He often spoke in parables and metaphors to make people think and sometimes so they wouldn't understand things until later. This is one of those occasions.
When they set the place on fire, obviously you had decaying bodies with worms etc., and the fire was never quenched because it was allowed to burn itself out, until it ran out of fuel. Misinterpretation is that Jesus is talking about a flaming place of eternal torture. He was actually talking about a place that existed right then and there.
At the end of the bible, in the book of Revelation, John was given a series of visions and told to record them. This was Jesus communicating with John from heaven, as it was 50+ years after the ascension.
The visions included a "lake of fire burning with brimstone". It is a glimpse into the future, of the last day of humanity on this planet. Symbolically, it shows what happens to everyone. The part that is relative to this "hell" thread is the order in which the various entities are "thrown" into the lake of fire.
First, the beast and false prophet are thrown into the lake of fire, then the devil, then "death and hell", then those not found in the lamb's book of life.
So, if "hell" is this place of eternal torture, how is it that it too is thrown into the lake of fire? Not one person goes into hell, because it's in the lake of fire before them. Obviously, this is because it is talking about the grave.
According to the bible, there will be no more death, which is why we see "death and hell" (i.e. death and the grave) being done away with in the lake of fire, whatever that may be (some believe it to symbolize God himself, as he is often referred to as a "consuming fire" throughout the bible).
In any case, the only "hell" you, I or anyone else will ever go to is the one your body lies in when you die, your physical resting place until the last day, you are in the state of death when you are in the grave.
(The condition of death is like sleep, you don't really know you're experiencing it, a timeless state. No-one will ever experience death itself, only dying and resurrection.). It does not matter if you are Christian, Buddhist, Satanist, whatever, hell is simply the place your body is in when you die, the grave.
If you like reading, go to
http://bible-truths.com and scroll down to the "Lake of Fire" series, where all is explained in detail. In very, very, deep detail.