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The village of Hell has become a minor tourist attraction because of its name, as visitors often have their photographtaken in front of the station sign. A smaller building on the railway station have been given the sign Gods-expedition, which is the Swedish spelling of the word for "cargo handling" and it was added when the station have gotten some fame for being the railway station for Hell. (godsekspedisjon would be the spelling in Norwegian).

The name Hell stems from the Old Norse word hellir, which means "overhang" or "cliff cave". The Norwegian word hellin its everyday usage usually means "luck". The Old Norse word Hel is the same as today's English Hell, and as a proper noun, Hel was the ruler of Hel. In modern Norwegian the word for hell is helvete.

Among English-speaking tourists, popular postcards depict the station with a heavy frost on the ground, making a visual joke about "Hell frozen over." Temperatures in Hell can reach −20 °C (−4 °F) during winter.

The station itself, Hell Station, is situated at a railway junction where the Nordlandsbanen rail line north to Bodø branches off from the Merakerbanen between Trondheim and Storlien, Sweden. Hell Station is currently a manned railway station.