History is filled with unusual stories, and sometimes we’re lucky enough to see them preserved forever in pictures. In this photo collection, you can see around 45 most unique and bizarre photographs in history.
Photographs can give us a window into the past like no other, and serve as witnesses to that which took place long ago and that might even look quite odd to our modern eyes.
By the early 20th century, photography attracted upper middle-class enthusiasts who saw the camera as a new art medium, ready to take snapshots of the world that surrounded them, a world of new inventions, new professions, and new eccentricity.
Society was rapidly changing, while still clinging to its past. It was a time of contradiction.
A circus performer in an aquarium car with crocodiles, Berlin, 1933.
An iron man of the past in a diving suit. The suit’s name was ‘Iron man’ too. It had electric charging and pressure protection systems. New York, 1907. (More info here)
Charles Godefroy flies through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. The height of the opening is 29.42 m, the width is 14.62 m. The wingspan of the aircraft is 9 meters wide, 1919.
A visitor with a candle in her hand smiles at the large collection of skulls in the catacombs of Paris. 1935.
A crowd watching a British airship fly over the port of Ostend during WWI, 1914. (More info here)
Welsh spiritualist Colin Evans feigns levitation by jumping up and down in total darkness and filming himself with an infrared camera. London, 1939.
