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.
With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .
This cheeky chappie is getting into all kinds of monkey business as he enjoys cooling off on a scorching hot day .
CONTRASTING settings reveal some of England’s most beautiful landscapes in all their glory .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .
AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .
A host of websites that are almost twenty years old are collecting a cult following thanks to their retro appeal .
A British jewellery designer with a passion for London's iconic Gherkin has created a pen with an INK-REDIBLE price tag of £27,500 .
A grand 56-bedroom hotel, once heaving with injured soldiers during the First World War, now lies completely abandoned .