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…
A BABY-faced burglar is starting a seven year stretch in custody after being nabbed by a Jaffa Cake .
GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .
A grand 56-bedroom hotel, once heaving with injured soldiers during the First World War, now lies completely abandoned .
THIS BIGFOOT 'Jesus bird' may look silly, but he's perfectly designed for walking on water .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
Splashing around in the water, a mother otter and her son are tangled in a family feud .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .
A DETERMINED great blue heron holds on tightly to its prey as the furry gopher attempts to wriggle free .
