Random encounters with the unusual

St Nicholas’ churchyard in Brockenhurst, Hampshire, is home to an unusual white marble headstone. The headstone depicts an old bearded man i...

The gravestone in the below photographs can be found in St. Michael’s Churchyard in Wilsford (near Amesbury) in Wiltshire. The inscription o...

The statue shown below is a memorial, in Llantrisant, to the Welsh physician William Price (4 March 1800 – 23 January 1893) who is remembere...

The portrait below shows a man called Józef Boruwlaski. Boruwlaski was a diminutive entertainer who was born in Poland in 1739 into a family...

I have always been fascinated by some of the weird and unusual hobbies that people have, and some of the bizarre sports that people take par...