22 Rare Photos Of The World’s Most Iconic Landmarks Before They Were Finished

It’s pretty easy to forget how much time and work goes into the construction of famous landmarks…. or any building for that matter.

You’ve also probably never thought of what these iconic landmarks use to look like before they were the incredible completed structures that we see today.

1. The Sydney Opera House under construction in the 1960’s

2. Christ the Redeemer being built on a mountaintop in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

3. Manhattan Bridge in New York City, 1909

4. The London Tower Bridge without a middle in 1892

5. The beginnings of the Hoover Dam

6. The U.S. Capitol Building in 1861

7. The Eiffel Tower

8. The Crazy Horse Memorial, located in Black Hills

9. The Atomium in Brussels, Belgium

10. Mount Rushmore, missing some key players

11. The Statue of Liberty reaching new heights in 1885

12. One World Trade Center in 2012

13. The Lincoln Memorial, pictured during construction, missing the head of Lincoln

14. The early stages of the Washington Monument

15. Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, being completed in 2008

16. The Golden Gate Bridge in 1932

17. New York City’s Flatiron Building, pictured here in 1902

18. The construction of the World Trade Center in 1970

19. The Empire State Building in 1931

20. The layers of the Petronas Towers being built in Malaysia in 1995

21. The construction of the Space Needle in Seattle. This photo was taken in 1961

22. The iconic Gateway Arch, looming large over St. Louis in 1965

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