1.Trocadéro Square in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris in August 2019:
2.Trocadéro Square in front of the Eiffel Tower on March 8:
3.The most visited museum in the world, the Louvre in Paris, in August 2019:
4.The Louvre on March 18:
5.Tourists at the Taj Mahal in Agra, India, in January 2018:
6.A clear decline in tourists at the Taj Mahal on March 16:
7.The Spanish Steps and Piazza di Spagna in Rome in August 2019. The steps were such a popular spot to visit and linger at that the city had to create a strict no-sitting law.
8.The Spanish Steps and Piazza di Spagna on March 13 (Italy has one of the strictest lockdown laws outside of China):
9.The ritzy Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan in June 2019:
10.The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II on March 13:
11.Tokyo's Shibuya Crossing — which is believed to be the busiest crosswalk in the world — in September 2019:
12.A much less busy Shibuya Crossing on March 9:
13.London's super-busy Piccadilly Circus in September 2019:
14.Piccadilly Circus almost empty on March 15:
15.One of the most iconic places in all of the UK, and home to the Queen — Buckingham Palace — in August 2019:
16.Buckingham Palace on March 18. And FTR, the Queen will no longer be there; she is moving to Windsor Castle because of the coronavirus:
17.People lined up to enter Disneyland in Anaheim, California, in March 2019:
18.The esplanade between Disneyland and Disney California Adventure on March 16 (this is only the fourth time in its history that the park has been forced to close):
19.Tourists inside the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul in October 2018:
20.An empty Hagia Sophia being disinfected by health officials on March 13:
21.People enjoying a warm summer day at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in June 2019:
22.The Brandenburg Gate on March 16:
23.People enjoying an unseasonably warm day outside the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, in January:
24.The Lincoln Memorial on March 17:
25.A very busy Times Square in New York City in September 2019:
