An Italian photographer travelled to Chile where he visited several star-gazing sites, home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes, located in the spectacular setting of the Atacama desert. Surrounded by vast desert and distant snow topped mountains, the enormous satellite dishes, dome-shaped buildings and telescopes are run by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) , an intergovernmental body dedicated to observing space. Photographer Alberto Ghizzi Panizza was granted access to several observatory sites.
A KITTEN'S teaparty and rat's playing dominoes are the bizarre creations by one of Britain's great eccentrics pictured in an incredible new book .
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .
SPLASHING around in a paddling pool, this little elephant soaks up the sunshine .
A SPECTACULAR array of stars fills the night sky as they soar over this active volcano .
AT 4,800 metres high and just three metres wide, this is the most dangerous road in the world .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .
THE CRAZE for mimicking the video game Streetfighter has spread to the streets of London .
Full of tired and busy commuters, these underground stations are rarely admired for their architecture or beauty .
COVERING themselves in ash and face paint, these are the holy men who live their lives away from everyday society .
TUGGING on the wing of his sibling, this needy owl is after some attention .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .