Off the southeastern coast of Brazil sits an isolated island that almost no one is allowed to visit. Ilha da Queimada Grande is so overwhelmed with venomous snakes that it has earned the chilling ...

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 ...

Ilha da Queimada Grande, known as Snake Island, is an uninhabited rock off the coast of Brazil that is home exclusively to the critically endangered Golden Lancehead pit viper (Bothrops insularis).

Just 20 miles off the coast of southeastern Brazil lies a place so dangerous it has been permanently closed to the public. Known as Snake Island, or Ilha da Queimada Grande, this remote outpost is ...

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 ...

Somewhere off the coast of Brazil, there lies an island so dangerous that not a single human is allowed to step foot on it. Thousands of miles away in the Indian Ocean, a tribe untouched by modern ...

Hidden somewhere off the southeastern coast of Brazil could lie hundreds of millions of dollars-worth of lost Incan gold. One team of treasure hunters has a new theory on where the treasure lies - a ...