Kizhi

Kizhi is an island in Lake Onega, Karelia, known principally for the Kizhi Pogost, a UNESCO-listed ensemble of two large wooden churches and a bell tower built in the 18th century without metal fasteners, their multiple onion domes — 22 on the Transfiguration Church alone — sheathed in aspen shingles that silver with age. The island serves as an open-air museum of Karelian vernacular architecture, with farmhouses and mills relocated from across the lake region. It is accessible by hydrofoil from Petrozavodsk.