STORIES
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.
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.