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. Other spookily compelling taxidermy images show a bird's funeral complete with casket, a kitten's wedding and a well-dressed stuffed monkey riding a goat. The stuffed curios were all created by Victorian Englishman Walter Potter, who originally displayed his strange taxidermy creatures to the awe-struck paying public from The White Lion Pub which doubled as his museum in Bramber, Sussex. Brought up in Bramber from 1835 and dying in 1918, Potter's museum continued to entertain until 1970, when it passed to the Jamaica Inn of Brighton. In 2003 the surviving collection was auctioned for half-a-million pounds to various buyers from across the world.
A photographer has captured stunning photographs of the Milky Way above picturesque landscapes in the UK and Italy .
STOOD side by side next to a busy road, these buildings were once bustling with life .
LUMINOUS green rocks could easily be a beach from Superman's homeland of Krypton .
Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .
A once bustling gold rush town in Mono County, California now stands completed deserted .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
An elegant snowy owl spreads her wings and glides effortlessly above the snow covered field .
Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .
BLOWING bubbles underwater, this adorable polar bear slides into his tank for a playful dip .
An artist has transformed traditional Thanksgiving dinners into mini-masterpieces .
