WELCOME to what could be the world's tallest TOTALLY wooden construction. Life's a BEECH for worshipers at this church that is now POPLAR with foreign tourists since being SPRUCED up after locals PINED for a revamp in recent years. Thanks to the carpentry genius of her creators this 123-foot-tall church complex is held together only by wooden rivets without a nail in sight. The Russian Orthodox Church buildings called Kizhi Pogost are 150-miles east of the Russian border with Finland. The impressive domes of the pair of churches tower over the surrounding countryside and were designed to attract the Christian community of this remote wilderness to one spot on a small island called Kizhi on the waters of Lake Onega. Kizhi Pogost is such a rare example of religious architecture that the site it was listed as a world heritage site by UNESCO in 1990…
AN ANGRY giraffe gave a bush-riding cyclist a scare when he stomped his £2K bike into the dirt .
THESE LOVE BIRDS can’t keep their beaks off each other as they share a very public display of affection .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
These uninvited guests ELEPHANTLY make their annual trip through the reception of this welcoming lodge .
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .
LYING flat out on his back, this little meerkat makes the most of the English sunshine .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
A little clownfish opens its mouth to reveal a blood sucking intruder living on its tongue .
SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .
THIS incredible shimmer of silver fish mirrors the image of that of an underwater tornado .
FROM MRS Patmore to Lady Sybil, these barking mad illustrations show the WOOF-er side of some of our most loved Downton characters .
THEIR gnarling teeth at the ready, these two baboons fight it out for the last piece of fruit .