Off the southeastern coast of Brazil sits an isolated island that almost no one is allowed to visit. Ilha da Queimada Grande ...

This deadly island is swarming with 4,000 of the world’s most lethal snakes and is deemed so dangerous that visiting it was been banned by the Brazilian government. Ilha de Queimada Grande sits 20 ...

There is an island off the coast of Brazil, in the Atlantic Ocean, where humans are banned. Why? Because it is home to thousands of highly venomous snakes that rule the land. Ilha da Queimada ...

Not many people visit Snake Island each year, and there is a very good reason for that. Ilha da Queimada Grande, as it’s known in Portuguese, is a rocky island located off the coast of Brazil. At just ...

Brazilians quibble over whether there are five venomous golden lancehead snakes per square meter on Ilha da Queimada Grande or just one. Either way, it's the highest density of snakes on the ...

So how did this Brazilian island become one of the most terrifying places on earth? According to Smithsonian magazine, the snakes were trapped on the island about 11,000 years ago, due to rising sea ...