With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet. These mesmorising pictures, however, capture the beautiful variety of fungi here on Earth. The incredible images were taken by Australian photographer Stephen Axford, 62, after he became familiar with the importance of fungi in everyday life, and decided to document it twelve years ago..
Suspended FIFTY metres in the air, this is the last place that you would expect to find a fine dining experience .
USUALLY full to bursting, these London Underground stations stand silent and completely commuter free .
NATURE PAPARAZZIS prove you don't have to be Justin Bieber or Cheryl Cole to attract a pack of photographers .
FIFTEEEN years after it was closed pictures by a British teacher show the calamity Hong Kong airport that was closed for being too dangerous .
AN EXERCISING turtle and an ice-skating chick are hardly everyday exploits in the animal community .
Kevin Silva, 52 from Indiana in the USA, has spent an estimated £65K ($100K) on Batman trinkets over the years, and even keeps his 2,500-item haul in his very own basement 'Bat Cave' .
EAGERLY BITING his nails, this little squirrel is clearly nervous of looming predators as he searches for his meal .
A blanket of fog is lit up by the colourful glowing lights of the city below .
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
A fox takes a tumble and lands on his head when he tries to fend off a pair of eagles in Japan .