From vanishing islands to the Snake Island filled with Golden Lancehead Vipers, these tiny islands aren't exactly welcoming vacation spots.Tiny Islands That You’ll Never Visit: Snake Island, Brazil Off the coast of Brazil sits Ilha de Queimada Grande, or as it’s known in colloquial English, Snake Island. Comprising roughly 110 acres of trees, the island is uninhabited and travel to it is expressly forbidden by the Brazilian navy. Why? Because Queimada Grande is home to hundreds of thousands of golden lanceheads, the snake pictured above.

From Bundy to BTK, here are seven times people escaped near-death at the hands of some of the world's most prolific killers.From Ted Bundy to Andrew Cunanan or Dennis Rader — the sordid tales of unsuspicious killers serve as warnings that danger often lurks beneath the most seemingly harmless facades. Fortunately for the vast majority of us, the crimes of these killers are usually just entertainment and we never actually think we’ll fall victim to people like this — but unfortunately, somebody inevitably does.

See some of the world's most interesting plants in action and discover what makes them so exotic, dangerous, and seemingly from another world.Source: Wikimedia Given their popularity, it’s pretty likely that you once had a Venus Fly Trap in a tiny, plastic terrarium as a kid. So popular are the perennially hungry plants that their novelty status has made them a threatened species in some areas where it grows wild. While Dionaea muscipula, the plant pictured above, is fascinating as a carnivorous plant that feeds on flies, spiders and other small insects, there are others in the plant kingdom that are just as interesting.

Carl Tanzler fell in love with Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos, a young tuberculosis patient at the Key West hospital where he was a radiology technician — but his fondness grew into an obsession after she died in 1931.Wikimedia CommonsCarl Tanzler lived with the corpse of the woman he loved for seven years. In 1930, a radiologist named Carl Tanzler fell in love with a young patient he was treating for tuberculosis.

After Carolyn Warmus was accused of killing Betty Jeanne Solomon in 1989, the case sent the media into a frenzy over the lurid details that mirrored the film Fatal Attraction.Carolyn WarmusDue to the similarities between the Carolyn Warmus case and a recent Hollywood hit, it became known in the media as the “Fatal Attraction murder.” It reads like something out of a Hollywood script: Teacher Carolyn Warmus, a 25-year-old insurance heiress, strikes up a romance with older coworker Paul Solomon.