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Then & now, one street at a time
Old photographs, matched to the exact spot they were taken. We walk one street through a century — then you can open the map and keep going.
Looking for one city rather than one street? Old photos by city counts what the archive holds for Moscow, Paris, New York, Berlin and 20 more.
Moscow The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour: Moscow Then & Now Dynamited by Stalin in 1931, its site a giant swimming pool for thirty-five years, then rebuilt from nothing in the 1990s — one Moscow landmark across a century. Read the story → 
Paris The Eiffel Tower: Paris Then & Now Built to stand only twenty years, the Eiffel Tower outlasted the globes, palaces and fairs that rose around it. A century at one spot, in real photographs. Read the story → 
Berlin The Brandenburg Gate: Berlin Then & Now Empire, ruin, and the Berlin Wall — the gate stood sealed in no-man's-land for 28 years. A century at one spot, in real photographs. Read the story → 
New York The Twin Towers: New York Then & Now Before the World Trade Center, this corner of Lower Manhattan was a downtown of shops and streetcars. Watch the Twin Towers rise and stand across the 20th century. Read the story → 
Tbilisi Rustaveli Avenue: Tbilisi Then & Now From Golovin Avenue's earth road in 1888 to Soviet trolleybuses and today's boulevard — a century of Tbilisi's main street in real photographs. Read the story → Every one of these streets is on the map, with the rest of the archive around it.