Welcome to Bizarre's new picture of the week story. Every week, we'll be digging in the Bizarre archives for the strangest and weirdest pictures that have featured in the pages of Bizarre. And every week, Bizarre's picture editor, Tom Broadbent, will give you a little insight into the background and story behind the shot. Click on the pic (right) to see the full image. See the whole story, with many more pictures here

Over to Tom:

"This photograph is from a very unusual place in Mexico called The Island Of The Dolls. Now, obviously that's not the name you would most likely find it on a map but as a pet name it's pretty hard to beat.

You'll find this place in an area called Xochimilco, near Mexico City. It takes a extremely long boat trip to get there through all these canals, around eight hours on a dodgy boat most likely..

When you get there, you'll find the entire place populated by decaying, twisted and decapitated dolls. Kind of a last resting place for Barbie. The story goes that a bloke went a 'bit loco down in Acapulco' some years ago, became a hermit and started collecting all these dolls and bits of dolls that washed up on the shores of the island.

You'll even find a memorial dedicated to this chap's life in a building in the centre of the place. There are thousands of dolls strung up all over the island which make a quite disturbing and creepy image.

So we have this image, a close-up of one of the dolls faces jammed onto a tree branch. I find this really weird and affecting this image. The fact it's decapitated, well torn off, after all it's not a real baby, just plastic I have to keep telling myself. Fact is it's plain bizarre, end of.

The series was photographed by Sharon O'Dea, a photographer who found herself on the island with our very own Dr.Blackthorn for some reason..."

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