25 photos that will change your perception of world history

When you read something about history, be it a memoir, a textbook or an article, your own unique idea of how it was develops in your head: fantasy itself completes the entourage, details, colors, sounds and smells. And sometimes we can't even really imagine what it was like back then. Fortunately, photography has been around for a good century and a half, and it is possible to at least visualize some places and moments that are forever in the past.

A group of tourists sunbathe on top of the Great Pyramids in Giza.

Happy Walt Disney on the opening day of Disneyland in 1955.

The luxurious main dining room of the Titanic.

The construction of the Eiffel Tower in 1888.

The shadow of a man after dropping a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima.

The Hollywoodland sign in Los Angeles in 1925.

Construction of the Sydney Opera House in 1973.

The construction of the World Trade Center towers in New York began in 1971.

A group of tourists in Las Vegas from the front row watching the tests of a nuclear bomb in 1953.

A couple shows their newborn children to their grandparents on the other side of the Berlin Wall in 1961.

An American Indian on the roof of Alcatraz Prison in 1971, when the prison was invaded by Indians.

The left hand of the Statue of Liberty is collected in Paris in the winter of 1882.

The destroyed wall of the Empire State Building after the collision of a B‑25 bomber in 1945.

A Japanese man on a sailing boat against the backdrop of Mount Fuji, 1890s.

London is in ruins after a German air attack on December 29, 1940.

Empty halls of the National Gallery in London during the Second World War: all the paintings were hidden from the Nazis.

Fireworks on Red Square in Moscow in honor of the victory over Nazi Germany in 1945.

Unfinished Tower Bridge in London at the end of the XIX century.

Sculpting on Mount Rushmore in the 1930s. At that time, 500 thousand tons of granite were removed from the mountain.

Archaeologist Howard Carter studies Tutankhamun's golden sarcophagus after opening his tomb in 1923.

Hooverville in New York's Central Park during the Great Depression.

The water was "turned off" at Niagara Falls in 1969 for research related to soil erosion.

Men fishing against the backdrop of the Golden Gate Bridge under construction in San Francisco in the 1930s.

Construction of Madison Square Garden in New York in 1966.

The Capitol building in Washington is still without a dome, 1859.