An intrepid photographer travelled to the abandoned ghost town of Bodie in northern California to capture the historic buildings that are trapped in time. The eerie mining town located in Bodie Hills in Mono County, east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, sits alone in the desert, 75 miles south east of Lake Tahoe. Professional photographer Julien McRoberts, 50, photographed several of the 170 buildings within Bodie, including the once heaving church, saloon and general store. Bodie was a gold mining camp in 1859 and by 1880 it had become a bustling town with a population of 2,700. It wasn’t until 1910 that the town was in decline, as gold miners moved out of Bodie and onto more promising land.
Fishermen in Myanmar have perfected an unusual fishing technique by carefully balancing on one leg .
An adorable orangutan named Pongo celebrates his first birthday at Zoo Atlanta, Georgia, America .
Full of tired and busy commuters, these underground stations are rarely admired for their architecture or beauty .
POPE MOBBED BY THOUSANDS OF WORSHIPPERS IN RIO - Thousands of worshippers gather to celebrate the Papal visit on Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro ,Brazil .
BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .
This cheeky macaque gets up close and personal as he examines the dental hygiene of his fellow primate .
A Romanian photographer has captured the unique patterns of hundreds of human eyes in a series of striking macro shots .
CAMPED out in the middle of a forest, these unusual hut hotels take you back to basics .
A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .
An adorable little squirrel wakes from a nap and pops out his tongue for the camera .
FULL OF STUNNING colours and swirling shapes, the furrows on these fields create a mix of mesmerising patterns .
TOMORROW (Saturday) marks the 28th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that left the city of Chernobyl devastated .