40 Mind-Bending Then-And-Now Pictures Of Places That Prove Time Waits For No One

And some still say these people were "primitive." Try that today without modern building equipment.

It’s good to see we’re preserving and restoring so many of these old sites now.

My antecedents…I still have the short gene. Thanks guys.

You know, I don't know what it is exactly, but I have the strangest feeling that the first image isn't actually a photo :p

I love seeing old buildings that are unchanged.

Wow! That’s a refurb! Even built a brand new romanesque bridge! 😉

I went there. It a sight to behold. You walk up this long pathway so you start from a distance, it’s a breathtaking sight

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And it’s still not finished.

Though that shouldn't be an example that nukes aren't destructive longterm - Terrain and the weather back then were huge factors in clearing the radiation in a relative short time

Well at least they can breathe better now.

D**n those cruise ships

what a shame

DC has always been a swamp. And when I say that I'm not referring to the MAGA slogan. That part of the USA was literally a swamp. Or wetland if you prefer. I wonder why they decided to put the US capitol there. Could have had New York or Boston or Philly. I wonder what the founding fathers were thinking.

Such a vibrant city. I was only there briefly, I'd like to see more of it

The Roman Baths of Baths, UK, that gave the name to the city. They are on the site of the old Roman Baths, but the current building (in the photo) was built in the XVIII century as a private club.

That tunnel looks amazing and a little scary, but I'd go through it!

The bottom image is missing the thousands of tourists who are always there

They had all that space, endless possibilities. And they ended up building that car dependent monstrosity

From 544 & 591 CE they endured, until blown up by the Taliban in 2001.

Way to keep it real

Back in the 1960s, we were taught in school that it was visible to the eye from space. I was oddly disappointed when that proved to be false.

The fact that they knew the stadium was there is impressive in itself. I believe it's fully excavated now and looks impressive.

"They say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is . . ."

Finally, a side-by-side comparison!! Beautiful.

Where the banshees cry, and the cats meow!

It may have lost some of its rustic charm, but it’s a little more secure-looking now

The workers finally got to the front

It's mostly unchanged, all the parts damaged from the war have been rebuilt. The company founded in 1387 by Duke Gian Galeazzo Visconti, the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo- is still existing and active, taking care of the upkeep, renovations and repairs of the stone work. The marble all comes from a single cave in Candoglia, that has been active since 1380 and works almost exclusively for the Fabbrica: it's curious that the marble is pinkish at origin, and turns white-grey with time. To bring the Marble from the caves to the city a shipping channel was built, that is also still existing, with the old paths used to drive oxens to pull the empty barges upriver now converted to beautiful bike paths.

I hate that they felt they needed to surround it by a fence and concrete.

When it was opened in 1937 over 200k pedestrians walked, danced and skated across. 50 years later in 1987 over 800k people walked across for the anniversary causing it to sag which, was by design and not a sign that the bridge was overstressed.

From Wikipedia: The pyramid of Cestius (in Italian, Piramide di Caio Cestio or Piramide Cestia) is an ancient Roman pyramid in Rome, Italy, near the Porta San Paolo and the Protestant Cemetery. It was built in the style of the Nubian pyramids as a tomb for Gaius Cestius, a member of the Epulones religious corporation.[1] It stands at a fork between two ancient roads, the Via Ostiensis and another road that ran west to the Tiber along the approximate line of the modern Via Marmorata. Due to its incorporation into the city's fortifications, it is today one of the best-preserved ancient buildings in Rome.

Perspective makes it look much bigger in the first image.

A recent post quoted a genius who said that the French stole "our" design, because of course the original is in Las Vegas!

Mmm. The building was heavily modified after 1900 and before taking up its current form. There were some striking architectural changes made in 1945, for example. 😬

I could be wrong here, but I really doubt that anyone in future centuries will say "Wow, those tower blocks from the 20th century were so beautiful."

Fun fact: The star shaped structure it's on, wasn't built for the statue. Rather, that is Fort Wood, which was built between 1808, and 1811, and served as part of the harbor defense for New York. the odd shape was to allow for overlapping fields of fire from muskets and cannon. When the statue site was proposed, it was decided to fill in the interior of Fort Wood with backfill taken from around NYC, and then have block and concrete placed to create the walkway area, with the backfill serving to provide a more stable footing for the statue and its upper plinth works.

If you didn't read the title and immediately start singing that song in your head, are you even human?

Oops, I thought that was the Blue Mosque in Istanbul - does anyone know the name of the building in the top image?

That soaring ceiling with light pouring in was so beautiful.

You can't see all the prostitutes and pimps in the first image but they're there!