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.
FLEXING his muscles and staring straight at his opponent, this bodybuilding squirrel is the nuts .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .
LOCATIONS bursting with vibrant greens and chestnut browns, these photographs capture the peaceful English countryside in all its glory .
A brave leopard kicks back and relaxes in the sunshine - just inches from an enormous crocodile .
WITH A wide smile plastered across his face, this little gecko is ready for his close up .
The gunslingers are long gone and tumbleweeds have taken over at this abandoned American Wild West Theme Park in Cornwall .
Beautiful turquoise waves rise and fall in a series of stunning images taken along the coastline of south-eastern Australia .
With one hand rested on his belly and the other propping his head up, this lazy lizard takes an afternoon break .
STARING open-mouthed into the camera, this shocked fish looks out of place in the middle of its angry friends .
WONDERS of the world have been transformed into their mini-versions in a seven-year round the world adventure .
A grand 56-bedroom hotel, once heaving with injured soldiers during the First World War, now lies completely abandoned .