Photograph of the Los Angeles River on the north side of Griffith Park, ca.1898-1910.

A group of boys playing in a village ban in 1950

A gondolier navigates his way through Venice, in front of St Mark's square circa 1950 photo Getty Images

Hajj in 1889

Qurbani animals stayed with the pilgrims

Stoning the devil in the mid-1900s

Tents in Arafah during Hajj in the 1950s

A rare moment – Pilgrims continue Hajj even when the The Holy Kaaba was surrounded by water

Rabindranath Tagore – First Indian to win Nobel Prize ( 1913 )

MG Road Bangalore

This picture shows the glass being applied to the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa, which stands at 2722 feet tall

The 105-storey Ryugyong Hotel under construction in the North Korean capital Pyongyang in 2008. It still hasn't opened

The twin Petronas Towers Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, can be seen mid-construction in 1995. The towers have 88 storeys each, and each stand 1,483 feet above street level

A vintage postcard of 1960s Istalif

The Sagrada Familia, a fixture of the Barcelona skyline and a major tourist site, had its first stone laid in 1882 however picture was taken in 1935, with decades of work left to do.