50 Fascinating Photos That Show How Famous Places Have Changed Over Time

Not to feel dumb, it's hard to visualize it as being all overgrown when you see it cleared like it is, and trying to picture it when it was completely covered would have been a real stretch of the imagination. AI generally sucks, but a good AI render of a restoration, with human oversight to get the details right, would be amazing. And then stop and think--in fifty years, if no one ever visited there again, it could return to looking like the first pic.

What a brilliant observation.

omg really? you sure about that?

BJ Moore, you are an a*s. The US rightly should do their fair share in disasters. Quote: Contributors to the Chernobyl CSF included Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, the European Community, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Additionally, donations were made by Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Iceland, India, Israel, Korea, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Portugal, Romania, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, and Turkey. Note that the US is NOT at the top of that list. https://www.ebrd.com/home/what-we-do/focus-areas/nuclear-safety/chernobyl-shelter-fund.html

This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

All thx to $$$$ from America!

Panda Cat

Panda Cat

Community Member • points

posts

comments

upvotes

FollowUnfollow

Premium

Premium user. Get details.

There are a lot of dogs thriving there, there were women who refused to leave their homes, and wildlife and vegetation thrive. Cernobyl and Pripyat is one of the unintentional wildlife parks along with the Korean DMZ and on Cyprus. The former borders of the Soviet Satellite states have some areas that were accidentally protected for wildlife before the fall of the Soviet Union. Because the infrastructure in those areas was almost nil the areas often are still undeveloped and wildlife thrives. I encourage you all to read up on this phenomenom. Those aren’t the only places- just the ones off the top of my head at the moment.

And the fashion.

And the trees have gone from the right to the left!

Thank you for that clarification. The difference made me briefly nauseous. Knowing the difference is less stark (for now) helps slightly.

So the title is wrong,should be 2012, 1984 then?

2012 was an exceptional year due to anomalous weather. Currently, except for yearly oscillation, it is back to 2007 levels (i.e. roughly half the 1980s level, and one third the historical average from the last millennia)

S. E. in Indiana, do you really think I hadn't worked that out! Well you were correct, thank you.

That is pretty cool interactive effect!

Thank you!!

Janissary35680

Janissary35680

Community Member • points

posts

comments

upvotes

FollowUnfollow

Premium

Premium user. Get details.

TIL. Thanks for that.

So much so

Yes

Jrog, very interesting!! What a mess: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xlN6Fy3egqY

Thanks. Saved me looking it up.

They're beautiful in the photos tho

Johannesburg did as well

You don't have to have one be better. Just appreciate the differences.

And after one of the shortest spans of time on this list.

Well apart from the roads to drive on, which for the Americans is normally the most important thing.

At first . . . Beautiful! Now…. Thanks to Californians - trash heap! 👎🏼👎👎🏿👎🏾

One of them was the Sands Hotel, where the Rat Pack stayed and performed while filming the original Oceans 11. A real shame such a landmark of. Eva’s history was torn down and replaced with tacky s**t.

2010 and 2014, OTOH, has crazy levels of snowfall.