1.
The statue of “David” by Michelangelo during World War II, encased in bricks to keep it safe…
2.
And the statue of “David” today:
3.
The Great Lawn of New York City’s Central Park during the Great Depression:
4.
And Central Park’s Great Lawn today:
5.
The Roman colosseum in the 1850s…
6.
And the Roman colosseum today:
7.
The Palazzo Braschi, headquarters of Fascist Italian leader Benito Mussolini during the 1930s…
8.
And the same building today:
9.
The Eiffel Tower while it was under construction in 1888…
10.
And the Eiffel Tower after it was finished for the 1900 Paris Exposition:
11.
The neighborhood around Tokyo Tower in Japan in 1960…
12.
And the same neighborhood today:
13.
The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC in 1907…
14.
And the Lincoln Memorial 100 years later:
15.
The Azure Swimming Pool in Chernobyl before the nuclear disaster…
16.
And the same swimming pool today:
17.
The elevated highway that ran through Boston before it was moved underground…
18.
And the same place the highway was today:
19.
Hong Kong circa 1920…
21.
The Panama canal while it was under construction…
22.
And the Panama canal shortly after it was finished:
23.
One of the enormous Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan before its destruction by the Taliban in 2001…
24.
And the same place where the gigantic Buddha once stood today:
25.
Huntington Beach in California when it was surrounded by oil derricks…
26.
And Huntington Beach today:
27.
Pope Francis as a young man…
28.
And one of the pictures ever taken of Pope Francis, snapped days before his death:
29.
The statue of Rameses II at Abu Simbel before it was excavated…
30.
And the statue of Rameses II after sand was cleared away:
31.
The San Francisco Ferry Building and Marketplace after the 1906 earthquake…
32.
And the San Francisco Ferry Building and Marketplace today:
33.
The great promenade deck of the Titanic in 1912…
34.
And the same deck on the Titanic today:
35.
Mount St. Helens one day before it erupted in 1980…
36.
And Mount St. Helens today:
37.
The Mayan temple at Chichen Itza in the 1860s before it was restored…
38.
And the same temple today:
39.
Mount Rushmore before the presidential heads were carved into it…
40.
And Mount Rushmore today:
41.
The Berlin Wall in 1969…
42.
And the same section of the Berlin Wall today:
43.
The Woodstock Festival in 1969…
44.
And that same field today:
45.
Downtown Manhattan in 1933…
46.
And downtown Manhattan today:
47.
The East Wing of the White House in 1902…
48.
And the East Wing of the White House after demolition amid the current construction project:
49.
San Francisco’s Cliff House in the 1890s…
50.
And San Francisco’s Cliff House a few short years after construction was completed and the house burned down…
51.
And, now, San Francisco’s rebuilt Cliff House today:
52.
The main drag of the gold rush town of Deadwood in the 1800s…
53.
And Deadwood’s main street today:
54.
The Great Ziggurat of Ur, built over 4,000 years ago in modern-day Iraq, before its excavation…
55.
And the Ziggurat of Ur today:
56.
The New York City skyline in 1931…
57.
And the New York City skyline today:
58.
The “back” of the Hoover Dam prior to the dam being flooded with water…
59.
And the same side of the Hoover Dam today:
60.
Tokyo in March of 1945…
62.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the start of his first term as President in 1933…
63.
And this the last picture of Franklin Delano Roosevelt ever taken, snapped just one day before his death in 1945:
64.
Main Street in Los Angeles in 1897…
65.
And Main Street in Los Angeles 50 years later:
66.
Machu Pichu before any restoration…
67.
And Machu Picchu today:
68.
The Singapore skyline in 2000…
69.
And that same skyline today:
70.
Queen Elizabeth II when she was 18…
71.
And one of the last pictures ever taken of Queen Elizabeth II, taken only two days before her death in September 2022:
72.
The city of Seattle in 1907…
73.
And the city of Seattle today:
74.
Stonehenge before it was restored…
75.
And Stonehenge today:
