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Snakes

An Afternoon with a 14-Foot Python Covered in Cash, Believed to be a Reincarnated Princess

RJ Vogt January 5, 2016

FOUND: So Many Rare Snakes

Sarah Laskow December 21, 2015

Fleeting Wonders: A Rat Snake in a Courthouse

Tao Tao Holmes December 4, 2015

Fleeting Wonders: A Python in a Pile of Jeans

Ella Morton September 29, 2015

northern death adder

FOUND: Australia's Newest Death Adder

Sarah Laskow September 17, 2015

Cat Island

100 Wonders: An Island You Don't Want to Visit

Dylan Thuras August 20, 2015

The Serpentine Story of Snake Oil, Or How I Came to Buy Snake Oil from Amazon.com

Ella Morton August 19, 2015

Cave of the Hanging Snakes

José María Morelos, Mexico

Cave of the Hanging Snakes

Cave where bat-eating snakes hang down from the ceiling.

Snake Village

Việt Hưng, Vietnam

Snake Village

This tiny Vietnamese village is known for eating snakes and serving their still-beating hearts in shots of vodka.

A red-sided garter snake

Gimli, Manitoba

Narcisse Snake Dens

The largest single concentration of harmless garter snakes in the world is a writhing Canadian serpent orgy.

Diamondback Bridge

Tucson, Arizona

Rattlesnake Bridge

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

Serpent D'Océan

Saint-Brevin-les-Pins, France

Serpent D'Océan

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

Pura Tanah Lot

Kediri, Indonesia

Tanah Lot

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

Santa Maria delle Grazie

Host to the annual Festival of the Snakes.

Guide to Islands You Don't Want to Visit, Pt.2

Shannon O'Haire August 30, 2013

Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute

Bangkok, Thailand

Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute

A collection of venomous snakes and reptiles for the whole family to enjoy.

One of the monastery cats.

Akrotiri, Cyprus

Holy Monastery of St. Nicholas of the Cats

For nearly 2,000 years this church has been waging war on local snakes by importing cats.

Frog specimens at the California Academy of Sciences.

San Francisco, California

California Academy of Sciences Herpetology Department

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.