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 grand 56-bedroom hotel, once heaving with injured soldiers during the First World War, now lies completely abandoned .
If you tune into primetime coverage of the 2012 Olympic Games, you’re most likely going to see London’s new Aquatic Center from many angles as athletes from all around the globe compete for the top spot on the podium .
HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .
AN ARRAY of colours, from pinks to blues and oranges, fill the night sky to create an amazing collection of interstellar patterns .
These images of vintage cars, bikes and vans, pictured all over the world, could easily have come from a globetrotting petrol-head’s photo album .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
CAUSING a splash, this determined kingfisher goes hunting for dinner .
What lies beneath this building site? Britain's great hope of winning the pre-WW2 arms race against Nazi Germany .
FLOATING effortlessly on his back, this little otter laps up a rare glimmer of English spring sunshine .
Say cheese! This cheeky chappy isn’t in the mood to live up to his scary reputation as he is pictured here cracking a killer smile as he goes about his daily business .
Primed and ready for action, this collection of striking images from the battlefield could be mistaken for authentic photos taking during World War II .