Striking pictures

I had a really bad idea today. It seemed like a good idea, an educational idea. It turned into one of those "punch you in the heart as if you didn't even have a sternum" kind of ideas. 

My idea: GoogleEarth has a time machine function, where you can go back and look at previous pictures of an area. There's even a button so that you can just click to go between the different pictures easily without using the slider. (The slider just jumps to the nearest previous image anyway.)

So, I thought, "Hey, I could zoom in on Port-au-Prince, go back in time, and then go forward in time and get a sense of the damage.

So I was zoomed in an trying to find a spot where I could *see* damage (it's harder in a flat view than you might think.) And then I found the cathedral.

Warning: the following photos might punch you in the heart as if you didn't even have a sternum. (You can click on an image to see a larger view.)

Before: An empty area, possibly a park?

After: Tent city.

Before: Cathedral.

After: Cathedral.

It's like that, scrolling around the city. There'll be areas where you can't tell much destruction, except a pile of rubble here and there... and then there'll be an area packed with overhead tarps and tents. And you wonder "what was there before" and go back, and that's a field or a building zone. And you can tell that the city didn't have much to begin with, and that the destruction you can see from above isn't the half of the damage that can be viewed on the street level.

They don't have images from Chile up yet, but I'm sure they will soon.

What other places can you think of that might be striking to look back on? (Keeping in mind that the earliest images I can find, depending on location, only goes back 10 or 15 years.)