AP PHOTOS: New York’s Grand Central Terminal dotted with scattered commuters. The Eiffel Tower in Paris, abandoned. Earth’s human-built and natural landmarks reveal their less frequently shared secrets as places stand abandoned because of the coronavirus.
These are places meant for people.
When the world’s public places empty out as humanity cocoons in self-protection, Earth’s human-built and natural landmarks are freed to reveal some of their less frequently shared secrets. They show how epic scale can become even more dramatic when stripped of the humans who usually populate it: A single heart, formed by the arms of two stranded South Korean tourists, frames the grandeur of the Pyramid of the Moon in Teotihuacan, Mexico, in a way no crowd ever could.
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