Strange Collection

Hairless Animals - Sphinx cat, rodent & rat
LA-7110 Hairless Animals - Sphinx cat, guinea pig & rat Jean-Michel Labat Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by William McLaren
The Green Knight rides over the bridge into Camelot Castle on New Years Day. He will set King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table a special challenge

Sun Studios, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, North America

La Sagrada Familia, Gaudi cathedral, Barcelona, Catalonia (Cataluna) (Catalunya), Spain, Europe

First observation of omega-minus particle
This historic photograph from the 80-inch (200cm) bubble chamber at the Brookhaven National Laborat- ory shows the first observation of the omega-minus particle

Gaudi architecture, Parc Guell, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Barcelona, Catalunya (Catalonia) (Cataluna), Spain, Europe

Cricket for the Middle-Aged (litho)
5217819 Cricket for the Middle-Aged (litho) by Robinson, William Heath (1872-1944); Private Collection; (add.info.: Cricket for the Middle-Aged)

Mary Pinnock as Ophelia by Julia Margaret Cameron
Ophelia (Mary Pinnock) by Julia Margaret Cameron. Date: 1867

Punaluu black sand beach, Big Island, Hawaii, United States of America, Pacific, North America

Shoebill - Papyrus Swamplands E & C Africa
PM-9762 Shoebill / Whale-headed Stork Papyrus Swamplands E & C Africa Balaeniceps rex Pat Morris Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Great Hammerhead Shark - Swims towards the photographer. These sharks are considered dangerous. Coral Sea. Australia
VT-8479 Great Hammerhead SHARK - swimming towards the photographer Coral Sea. Australia Sphyrna mokarran These sharks are considered dangerous

Rejected by the inventions board
" Rejected by the inventions board. VII -The Gallipoli Shell-Diverter for returning the Enemys Fire" There were other theatres of war besides he Western Front

Strange Incense by Reginald Higgins
A rather sinister looking faun watches over a woman sleeping, unaware, in a deckchair

Devils Tower, Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming, United States of America, North America

Alligator Snapper Turtle Showing lure formed by tongue, South America
PM-4035 Alligator Snapping Turtle - Showing lure formed by tongue South America. Macroclemys temmincki Pat Morris Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Thorny Devil Near Newhaven Station, Nthn Territory, Australia
DH-3160 Thorny Devil Near Newhaven Station, Nthn Territory, Australia Moloch horridus Don Hadden Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Borgund Stave Church, Norway
Borgund Stave Church, the best preserved 12th century stave church in the country, Borgund, Western Fjords, Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

Cat - Cornish Rex - Shorthaired Bicolour Black & White
LA-1916 Cat - Cornish Rex, Black & White shorthair Bicolour. Standing, side view Jean Michel Labat Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Picture No. 11092800
Dog Shar Pei Date:

Hairless Animals - Mexican Hairless Dog, Sphinx Cat, rodent & rat
LA-7107 Hairless Animals - Mexican Hairless Dog, Sphinx Cat, guinea pig & rat Jean-Michel Labat Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Shrunken Head - Brazil
A shrunken head - a prized trophy of an indigenous tribe from Brazil

Le Strange Coat of Arms
An elaborate coat of arms for the Stigleman Le Strange family of Hunstanton, Norfolk, UK

Northern Potoo. A nocturnal bird belonging to the potoo family. San Blas Mexico in March
JZ-3611 Northern Potoo. San Blas Mexico in March. Nyctibius jamaicensis A nocturnal bird belonging to the potoo family Jim Zipp Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Sea Horse / Leafy Seadragon - endemic to South Australian waters. Fm: Syngnathidae
AU-15-MS LEAFY SEA DRAGON / SEAHORSE endemic to S. Australian waters Phycodurus eques Auscape Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in anyway

Cat - Sphinx kitten - 4 months old
LA-5411 Cat - Sphinx kitten - 4 months old Jean-Michel Labat Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Gaudi architecture, Casa Batllo, Barcelona, Catalunya (Catalonia) (Cataluna), Spain, Europe

Great Hammerhead Shark - Can grow to 6 meters in length. They are found all around the tropical oceans but rarely seen
VT-8475 Great Hammerhead SHARK Coral Sea. Australia Sphyrna mokarran Can grow to 6 meters in length. They are found all around the tropical oceans but rarely seen

Moses 10 Commandments
He breaks the Tables of the Law because during his absence the Israelites have gone whoring after strange gods

The Big Hollow Tree - Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC, Canada
The Big Hollow Tree - Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Date: circa 1910s

Slender Loris PM 2709 Loris tardigrada © P. Morris / ARDEA LONDON
PM-2709 Slender LORIS India - Sri Lanka Loris tardigrada Pat Morris Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

St. Giorgis (St. George s) rock cut church, Lalibela, Ethiopia, Africa

Ocean Sunfish DSE 36 North Atlantic Ocean Mola mola © Douglas David Seifert / ardea. com
DSE-36 Ocean SUNFISH found in all tropical and temperate oceans Mola mola Douglas David Seifert contact details: prints@ardea.com tel: +44 (0) 20 8318 1401

Apache Dance, 1908
APACHE DANCERS : by a strange swing of fashion the sinister gangsters of the Paris under- world are seen as picturesque, and their macho dance style becomes the craze of the day

Cat - Sphinx kitten - 4 months old
LA-5409 Cat - Sphinx kitten - 4 months old Jean-Michel Labat Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Double-wattled Cassowary Tropical Rainforest. North Queensland, Australia
JPF-9457 Double-wattled / Southern CASSOWARY Tropical Rainforest, North Queensland, Australia Casuarius casuarius Jean Paul Ferrero Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

The Old Man of Hoy, sandstone sea stack 137m high, Hoy, Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK

The Giants Causeway, County Antrim, Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK, Europe

Trulli houses, Puglia, Italy, Europe

Manx Loghtan Sheep
JD-2251 MANX LOGHTAN SHEEP John Daniels Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way. contact details: prints@ardea.com tel: 020 8318 1401

Chameleon - male, showing eyes swiveling
JD-17811 Yemenese / Veiled CHAMELEON - Male showing eyes swiveling Chameleo calyptratus John Daniels Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Shoebill - Papyrus Swamplands E & C Africa
PM-9765 Shoebill / Whale-headed Stork Papyrus Swamplands E & C Africa Balaeniceps rex Pat Morris Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Stromatolites - Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve - Shark Bay World Heritage Area - Western Australia
GET-966 Western AUSTRALIA - Stromatolites Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve - Shark Bay World Heritage Area - Western Australia Geoff Trinder Please note that prints are for personal display

The bizarre chimneys of Gaudis Casa Mila, La Pedrera, Barcelona, Catalonia (Catalunya) (Cataluna), Spain, Europe

Riding a Penny Farthing bicycle

Fantastic Adventures - The Secret of Elenas Tomb
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, September 1947, featuring the story The Secret of Elenas Tomb by Karl Tanzler von Cosel. A young woman in long white dress stands on a tomb with the inscription Elena

Biddy The Tubman Stonham - Hastings, East Sussex
Biddy " The Tubman" Stonham - Hastings, East Sussex - Acrobat and Seaside Entertainer (1910s - 1930s). There are a number of (hilarious)

Domestic dog, Pekingese, studio portrait

Walter Rothschild driving his team of zebras at Tring Park
Carriage drawn by a zebra driven by Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild, founder of the Natural History Museum at Tring (where this photograph was taken), now part of the Natural History Museum, London

Picture No. 11092801
Dog Shar Pei Date:

Picture No. 11092260
Cat Cornish Rex Date:

The benefits of taking the water at Bad Wildungen, Germany
Comic illustration of the wonderful benefits to a ladys urinary tract (!) having taken the water at Bad Wildungen - a German therapeutic spa Town with springs that bring forth water containing iron

Heres a new kind of mermaid with ten peculiar hands and the same number of feet - webbed. Actually, the subwater goddess effect is formed by five beauties who invaded a beach at Hamburg, Germany 1954

Mopane Emperor Moth - Caterpillars / “worms” gathered for food in Zimbabwe
PS-5969 Mopane Emperor MOTH - Caterpillars / worms gathered for food in Zimbabwe. Africa Gonimbrasia belina Peter Steyn Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Cat JD 15244 Manx - Blue Cymric © John Daniels / ARDEA LONDON
JD-15244 MANX CAT - Blue Cymric Tail-less John Daniels Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Helen Duncan showing ectoplasm
Undated photograph of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan showing " ectoplasm" bunched around Duncans mouth and twisted into a tail between her legs. HPG/1/4/2 (iv)

Futuristic Rocket Car
THE SHAVER MYSTERY by Richards Shaver. A red rocket car speeds past strange stone carvings of monsters in a cave, evading the fire from a ray-gun

Scanning Electron Micrograph (SEM): Crab Spider, Magnification x 140 (A4 size: 29. 7 cm width)
LRDS-120 Crab Spider Scanning Electron Micrograph (SEM) Xysticus sp. Magnification x 140 (A4 size: 29.7 cm width) Coloured by hand to enhance natural features

Pregnant Seahorse - male
PM-6993 Pregnant Seahorse - male Hippocampus abdominatus Hippocampus abdominalis Pat Morris Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in anyway

European mole cricket. Europe
PPG-1525 European MOLE CRICKET - close-up of head Europe Gryllotalpa Gryllotalpa Or.: Europe occidentale Pascal Goetgheluck Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Gaudi architecture, Casa Mila, La Pedrera house, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Barcelona, Catalunya (Catalonia) (Cataluna), Spain, Europe

Burj Al Arab Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Middle East

Eleonore Zugun - 5
Romanian peasant girl who manifested strange stigmata, at the onset of her stigmatic trance

Great Hammerhead Shark - Science is still trying to discover the real reason for the strange head
VT-8478 Great Hammerhead SHARK Bahamas Sphyrna mokarran Science is still trying to discover the real reason for the strange head. It is believed to be beneficial in hunting

Shar Pei Dog - Puppy sitting down
JD-17411e DOG - Shar Pei puppy, sitting side view John Daniels Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Wife Catches Husband 19C
Realisation: the wife finds her erring husband dining with two strange women

Old houses in the Butcher Row, London The right-hand corner house on St. Clements Lane reputedly used by the leaders of the Gunpowder Plot

Parade of Elephants, rock formation of red sandstone, Arches National Park, Moab, Utah, USA

Alec James of Arsenal in the gym
Arsenal player Alec James tries out the Vita Gymno Frame in the Gym at Arsenals Highbury Football Ground

Nudibranch (Hyselodoris bullockii). Indo Pacific: Papua New Guinea
Tom Campbell / SplashdownDirect

Petaled Nudibranch - The petals which can be realised if disturbed contain a noxious viscous mucus Great barrier Reef
VT-8357 Petaled Nudibranch - The petals, if disturbed, can release a noxious viscous mucus Great barrier Reef. Australia Cyerce nigricans Valerie & Ron Taylor Please note that prints are for personal

Erreurs populaires, Pluie de croix en 1503 (engraving)
3644687 Erreurs populaires, Pluie de croix en 1503 (engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Erreurs populaires, Pluie de croix en 1503)

Illustration for Railway Ribaldry by W Heath Robinson (litho)
5210148 Illustration for Railway Ribaldry by W Heath Robinson (litho) by Robinson, William Heath (1872-1944); Private Collection; (add.info.: The building of Saltash Bridge)

Ripley Odditorium - New York, USA - A Shrunken Human Head
Ripley Odditorium - New York, USA - An Amazonian Shrunken Human Head. According to the card caption, although many years old, the hair still grows... Date: 1939

The Embankment, London on wet night with Policeman and Trams
A truly superb postcard photograph of The Embankment, London on wet night. The lights cast a strange eerie glow on the scene, magnified through the windows of a row of parked trams

Downtown Empire State Express
Syracuse, New York: c. 1933. The Empire State Express as it prepares to cross South Salina Street, the main business street of Syracuse

Square tomato. Conceptual image of a tomato that has a cuboid shape. This could represent a tomato that has been genetically modified to form this shape to allow more efficient packaging

Seahorse - Weedy Sea Dragon Adult male. With egg cases ontail
AU-8-BS WEEDY SEA DRAGON / SEAHORSE - Adult male with egg cases on tail Phyllopteryx taeniolatus Auscape Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Lotus flower temple, Bahai Temple, New Delhi, India, Asia

The light of the setting sun illuminates the unusual architecture of Blackchurch Rock, which lies under cliffs between Clovelly and Hartland Point, Culm Coast, North Devon, England, United Kingdom

Aye-aye - Endangered Species 3MP39
TOM-1365 Aye-aye - Endangered Species Daubentonia madagascariensis Tom & Pat Leeson Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Peanut-head Bug / Lantern Fly
FG-957 Peanut-head Bug / Lantern Fly Fulgoridae laternaria servillei Francois Gohier Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Nautilus - This rarely seen hairy nautilus was trapped in 80 m of water and later released 20 m down a drop off Milne
VT-8335 Chambered Hairy NAUTILUS - very rare Milne Bay. Papua New Guinea Nautilus macromphalus This rarely seen hairy nautilus was trapped in 80 m of water and was later released 20 m down

The bizarre chimneys of Gaudis Casa Mila, La Pedrera, Barcelona, Catalonia (Catalunya) (Cataluna), Spain, Europe

Red Rocks, Arbatax, island of Sardinia, Italy, Mediterranean, Europe

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"Unveiling the Extraordinary: A Journey through Strange Wonders" Step into a world where the extraordinary takes center stage, as we explore an array phenomena that captivate our imagination. From the awe-inspiring La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona to the enigmatic Shoebill bird found in the Papyrus Swamplands of East and Central Africa, prepare to be amazed. Venturing further into this realm of peculiarity, we encounter hairless creatures that defy conventional beauty standards. The Sphinx cat, with its smooth skin resembling ancient Egyptian statues; a rodent and rat stripped of their fur, revealing nature's quirky side. In scientific breakthroughs, we delve into history's first observation of the omega-minus particle - a discovery that revolutionized our understanding of subatomic particles. Similarly captivating is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by William McLaren, a medieval tale steeped in mystery and chivalry. But it doesn't stop there; brace yourself for encounters beyond our earthly realm. UFO sightings and cattle mutilation incidents leave us pondering what lies beyond our comprehension. Meanwhile, Mary Pinnock's portrayal as Ophelia by Julia Margaret Cameron transports us to Shakespearean realms filled with melancholy and intrigue. As we journey through time and space, Sun Studios emerges as a birthplace for legendary musical talents while Reginald Higgins' Strange Incense fills our senses with an otherworldly aroma. Nature continues to surprise us with its oddities – from an Alligator Snapper Turtle showcasing its lure formed by its tongue in South America to spotting Thorny Devils near Newhaven Station in Northern Territory Australia – reminding us that strangeness thrives even within familiar landscapes. Finally, no exploration would be complete without marveling at Gaudi architecture - structures so unique they seem plucked from dreams or fairy tales. Join us on this captivating odyssey where curiosity leads us down unexpected paths towards the strange and extraordinary.