After Atomic World War 3 Is Over Creation Of The Humanoids AI Robots Futura Lives

What would happen to planet earth if the human race were to suddenly disappear forever? Would ecosystems thrive? What remnants of our industrialized world would survive? What would crumble fastest? Life After People is a television series on which scientists, structural engineers, and other experts speculate about what might become of Earth should humanity instantly disappear.

This is a timeline of all the events that take place in the Life After People franchise. This timeline includes events depicted in the original Life After People Documentary special that aired on January 21, 2008, Life After People: The Series which aired from April 21, 2009 to March 16, 2010 and the Latino-America sin Humanos special that aired October 29, 2010.

Oil refineries still running across the world, especially at the Houston Ship Channel, however the feeder tanks run out and deadly gasoline vapors fills the tank. Runaway temperature rupture the reactor, creating sparks and the fumes explode where it then reach to the holding tank and it explodes. The process repeat till the entire oil refinery is aflame.
At the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, the tram of the Satellite Transit System continues to arrive and depart along the abandoned airport.
1 day
Most fossil fuel power stations around the world begin to shutdown, causing cascading blackouts worldwide once they run of fuel.
Nuclear power plants automatically shutdown into safe mode without people to consume the power.
Wind-driven turbines may continue to provide power, but without proper maintenance, their rotors will seize up overtime.
Hoover Dam takes little notice in the absence of people, providing the American Southwest with its virtual limitless amount of fuel from Lake Mead, allowing it to run for months & even years and making it one of the last artificial lights on the planet.
As museums lose power, the ideal conditions for the preservation of Egyptian mummies shutdown and the body starts to decay immediately.
Times Square is still glittering with lights but the street is silent, with only 50 decibel hum of the air conditioning units sounds the city.
In San Francisco, the cable cars are frozen in their tracks in the world's steepest urban hills, hanging in a wire thread, after power went out across the city.
Artificial satellites continues to soar over the north and south poles and while the solar panels continue to power them, the ground stations are empty.
As power fails across Rio de Janeiro, Christ the Redeemer become the last light to glow in the darken city.
At Levittown, gas leak still occurs and it only took a spark like stoves pilot light to ignite and explode the entire kitchen of the house.
The twinkling Christmas lights dim at the Aldridge's Always Christmas Store as the power grid fails.
As with other powerplants across the world, the plants at The Geysers automatically shutdown and super heated steam from deep inside the planet has no release causing the pressure to build.
In Washington D.C., the president's dog Bo wanders through the empty halls of the White House, soon he must escape to survive.
2 days
The New York City power grid fails and the glow of hundreds of trademark illuminated signs in Times Square have plunged into darkness.
Once power fails, the water pumps in the subways' systems no longer operates and the tunnels will flood in 36 hours.
Breweries in St. Louis explode when built-up pressure ruptures fermentation tanks.
Rats began moving into the casinos of Las Vegas in search for food as the power grid fails along the Strip.
The cattle stop lactating and the milk absorb back into the body with the process taking two weeks. Eventually, the cattle begin to starve and began to push against the gates and if it fails, they eventually become weaker and starve to death.
The fish at Pike Place Market in Seattle rot as ice melts and attract animals like rats, coyotes, and raccoons.
The loss of power at the sugar refineries has shut down the plants ventilation systems allowing sugar dust to buildup and eventually sparks, igniting the sugar dust and the refineries explode.
The pumping stations along the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System shutdown and oil stops moving through the pipeline.
In Valdez, Alaska, without humans to shutoff the flow of oil, the storage tanks continue to feed the oil tankers till it eventually overflow and spill millions of gallons of oil into the harbor.
At the United Nations Headquarters, an eerie glow still filters through the hallways of offices cause by strontium oxide aluminate. The markers can only glow for up to 20 hours and without electric lights to recharge them, the vast labyrinth soon join the rest of the city and the world in total darkness.
3 days
The first rainstorm after people hits Chicago and without people to manipulate the water levels, it cause the lower areas of downtown to flood.
Meanwhile at the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, the high river levels begin surging toward the gates of the Lockport controlling works causing the cascade of water to erode the piers, which result with the gates burst, flooding Joliet, and the entire towns of American Midwest are wipe away.
In Madame Tussauds Las Vegas, the failure of the Las Vegas power grid have air conditioning to fail and the wax celebrities dematerialize.
The Lacy dogs began scavenging for food and water in Central Texas until its former home is useless making it to faces decision to scavenge in the wilds.
At the Gulf of Mexico, 34,000 miles of undersea pipes from the oil platforms clog with undelivered oil, but watertight valves keep the oil from leaking into the ocean.
Once people disappeared, three types of lice, the head lice, body lice, and crab lice, begins to die off without its human hosts and eventually become extinct.
Without people, sheep are in grave danger to predators, but some have a chance for survival to the ones protected by Anatolian Shepherd Dogs, breed for over 6,000 years to help shepherds to watch over the flock.
Domestic turkeys faces tough times after people disappeared and the turkeys cannot breed or fly cause by humans to make turkeys more appealing making it the last generation of Thanksgiving turkeys.
While some battery powered radio still on, all conventionally powered radio stations have ceased its operation. Only the solar-powered radio station KTAO in Taos, New Mexico still broadcasts.
The pumps that pump water out of the Naica Mine fails and water begins to reclaim the mine, along the infamous Cave of the Crystals.
4 days
As power failed across Hawaii, the hands atop the clock of the Aloha Tower in Honolulu stop moving.
It also means the failure of the USS Missouri's electrically powered rust protection system and the ship would soon began to rust.
In Detroit, at the city's waterworks plant, some machines still humming because it switch to generator power once grid fail. However, there is no one to turn on the faucet and pipes began to max out, including 4 foot diameter pipes which makes it the weakest link to the system and one by one, the pipes burst and the water flows up to the street of Detroit into 10 foot high fountains.
InRio de Janeiro, the Christ the Redeemer is claimed by the night as its illuminating lights turn off and so does its electric forcefield.
At Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in Southern California, the German Shepherds, without their superior officers, goes AWOL as hunger became a new commanding officer.
With the absence of planes in the sky to create condensation with their contrails, the absence of the artificial cloud cover quickly change the climate on Earth.
5 days
Raw sewage began flowing into the rivers around Manhattan in New York City as the 93 pump stations around the city fails one by one.
Left unchecked, it produces methane gas where it finds its way into the subways and being lighter than air, its ultimate destination is the area around Grand Central Terminal, sitting on one of the highest natural points in Manhattan.
1 week
In London, without royal engineers to rewind it, Big Ben stops and the chimes is silence.
The Los Angeles power grid fails and the U.S. Bank Tower is no longer occupied. How long will it survive?
From Florida to Texas, the invasive water hyacinth imported from South America takes over the lakes and rivers without people to control their spread.
In the vast fresh water bayous outside New Orleans, escaped pets have become new treats for alligators.
The machinery that filters and oxygenates the tanks at the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas shutdown and the fish begin to suffocate and succumb to increased bacteria levels.
In Rome, black cats roam freely without fear of getting killed as the instruments of the Devil.
The stench of garbage attracts raccoons and start invading the homes by entering in the chimney which turns the entire home into a heaven of food and water.
On the high seas, rats have taken over a cargo ship carrying 30,000 tons of wheat and the rats started eating and breeding.
At grocery stores, power went out and the process of decay begins from meat and dairy products to produce as it starts to spoil. Also joining in are the rodents with the rats became the first to arrive and mold spores, which feeds on everything.
In New York City, the linseed oil paint smolder the soaked rags at The San Remo causing the apartment to burn and turn it into a different kind of hot property.
Palm Springs still remains powered thanks to the wind turbines that still supply the city with electricity.
In Chicago, the electric barrier in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal that protects the Great Lakes from the invasive Asian carp shuts down when the emergency generators fails.
Seagulls and Canada geese flock to airports to graze without fear of being hit by planes.
10 days
Produce begins to rot on supermarket shelves.
Pets still trapped inside houses can drink the water leaking from thawed freezers but a mass die-off of dogs would begin as they starve. Those that can escape homes will begin to scavenge for food but many of the unique features from different breeds became a major handicaps in the fight for survival.
Household pests like rats and mice thrive on the remaining food supplies but once it runs out, it'll return to the wilds where their numbers would be greatly diminished.
Greyhounds have escaped from the 40 dog tracks across the United States and roam free but their competitive nature keeps them from cooperating together to scavenge food and because it can easily be injure, its survival is short lived.
Meanwhile in New York City, the Asian long-horned beetle which arrived from China in the 1990s returns to continue to spread without humans to curtail the infestation.
Without power to the cooling pools, spend fuel rods at nuclear power plants began to boil the water and the fuel rods become a bonfire once it reach 700 degrees causing radiation to spread across the environment and contaminating the site.
Guide dogs raid the abandoned grocery stores after it fled to its former home, causing the store to be a lifeline.
2 weeks
At Buckingham Palace, the Queen's royal corgis are all alone and start scavenging for food and water inside the palace where they easily located it with the bathrooms and the Royal Kitchen that could last them for months.
In the zoos of Washington D.C. and Los Angeles, elephants, using their superior intelligence and powerful trunks, were able to break out from their enclosure and begins a new life in the urban jungle.
3,000 tons of garbage have been uncollected in Hollywood and some sewer systems deliver the garbage directly into the ocean where the final destination being the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Some of the 400,000 wolves begin invading homes from the smell of rotting food in kitchens.
In Las Vegas, the flashing lights and deafening clamor of slot machines in the casinos finally fall silent and turns dark.
Despite without humans to exterminate the rats in Las Vegas, Rat Terriers would continue to hunt it down.
3 weeks
Water began to scarce in Los Angeles when the Los Angeles Aqueducts denied the city its main water source once power fails and the water backs up & creates new reservoirs.
Inside milk containers, lactic acid bacteria multiplied into tens of thousands causing the dairy products to curdle, sour, and explode.
Lack of artificial refrigeration has caused most butter to go bad and melt but some will survive in the deep underground in northern Europe.
1 month
Without people to restock the liquid nitrogen, the more than 100 cryonically frozen bodies as well as 400,000 human embryos & eggs and sperms also frozen in clinics, begin to thaw and decompose.
Only the Immortality Drive aboard the International Space Station become the last hope for future intelligence species to restart the human race.
On the outskirts of Atlanta, kudzu begins to spread as it reek havoc across the city.
The 60 million pigs in North America begins to struggle as they begin to starve and resort to cannibalism.
In Los Angeles, the green lawns, trees, and gardens are withered as the city returns to a desert climate.
In Washington D.C., without water being pumped away from the city, it begins to flood.
On the Potomac River, beavers returns to the city as usual like nothing has happen.
In Phoenix, the waters of manmade lakes begins to dry up within weeks after the shutdown of all treatment plants.
The two hydroelectric power plants that divert water from the Niagara Falls shuts down without people to consume the electricity causing the Niagara River to rise 13 feet and the falls to have doubles the flow of water.
Downstream of Niagara Falls, the Maid of the Mist docks gets blasted away from the rising tides of the Niagara River.
Natural gas begins to expand in their own tanks without humans to continuously open and close valves to maintain proper pressure, which cause the tanks to rupture in a catastrophic chain reaction.
Without humans to tend the reindeers, it join their herd cousins the caribou and face the challenge of of 3,000 mile migration in Alaska.
In Glacier Bay, Alaska, snow and ice build-up creates a weight on luxury cruise ships where they weren't designed for causing the ship to lean and tilt over.
In the surf of Los Angeles, only the solar powered LED lights of the Pacific Wheel on the Santa Monica Pier still lightens the coastline.
In the Netherlands, without people to close Maeslantkering, Rotterdam floods from the North Sea and the rainstorm causing the works of art in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen to be wash away.
In the tunnels below Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, the Satellite Transit System has broken down with only the emergency battery backups for the public address system still working.
Without electricity demand, the generators of Itaipu Dam automatically shut down causing the Paraná River to overflow the dam.
6 weeks
At San Diego Wild Animal Park, lions escape their enclosure and soon expand their range in search of food.
2 months
The surviving millions of pigs escape into the wilds where they start breeding with feral swine causing the pig hybrid to be more leaner, meaner, and more mobile with larger tusks and more hair.
In Arlington National Cemetery, the automatic relighting system of John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame fails and the first rainstorm snuff out the flame for good.
Storage of oil and gas at the world's oil refineries haven't run out and the apocalyptic firestorm still continues especially at the Houston Ship Channel.
Without food to be supplied by people, the free ride of raccoons have come to the end as they return to the wild with the species surviving after the mass die-off.
3 months
At the Vatican City, the computerized climate control system inside the Sistine Chapel failed but the lack of moisture and body heat from visitors is helping to preserve Michelangelo's artwork.
After depleting all of food supplies in the Buckingham Palace, the Queen's corgis escape into London in order to survive.
In the United States, pets lucky enough to escape face rabies and the virus would spires for over 30% in the coming years.
Oil refineries across the world including at the Houston Ship Channel have finally exhausted their fuel and with refineries in ruins, the 1.2 trillion barrels of crude oil that still lays untapped beneath the Earth's surface would never rise to propel any manmade machines again.
In Central Texas, the Lacy dogs thrive by discovering food in the scrub lands by hunting feral hogs, which their numbers exploded without hunters to keep their numbers in check.
In grocery stores, produce have shriveled up and meat have entirely decomposed with rodents like rats moved from meat to dry goods and inside of dry goods are insects which food manufactured have let insect eggs inside of it.
Meanwhile, a specific brand of snack cakes could last last well beyond it's original expiration date of 25 days thanks to the preservatives.
4 months
Without farmers to protect their crops with pesticides, insects begin to mow down hundreds of thousands of acres.
At the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, without artificial cooling system that chilled the vault to -4 degrees, temperature begins to warm up and stabilize to 25 degrees.
6 months
Urban areas are returning to the wilds as smaller predators such as coyotes and bobcats which roamed the outskirts of populated areas would become the first new residents while larger predators would wait longer for the habitat to recover till they hunt in the abandoned cities.
In Los Angeles, mosquitoes begins to adapt by breeding in a stagnant swimming pool where it multiplied and can support hundreds of thousands.
In New York City, the Ricoh Billboard still lightens Times Square since it is entirely solar and wind powered, making it the last light to glow in the city.
The manmade lakes at Phoenix have all evaporated and the rivers follow causing the city to be reclaimed by the desert.
Birds flock to the USS Missouri where they drop undigested seeds that lodge into the ships 53,000 square feet of wooden decks.
Without traffic, armadillos thrive in Texas as long as the weather stays warm.
In Washington D.C., the sun, wind, and rain have torn the American flag on the Marine Corps War Memorial to shreds and it only took a harsh wind in a gusty afternoon to blow it away.
Some ski runs across the world begins to look the way it did but others are mysteriously free of growth as if still being groomed by humans.
In Northern California, wildfires burns unchecked but for the coast redwood, it triggers a signal in the trees to sprout new limbs and shoots which make the trees to quickly flourish.
9 months
In the city of Boston, a winter storm ravage the USS Constitution, with the failure of the automatic bilge pumps months ago, the hull starts to leak causing the entire ship to sink into the bottom of Boston Harbour.
1 year
Nature begins to reclaim the land as impervious surfaces like roads can support an abundance of plant life by growing weeds in the cracks, forming a layer of poor nutrient topsoil where clover fields take root, and finally plants and ivy took over in the surface and begin damage the road surface.
Wild animals like the white-tailed deer begun to find their way into the abandoned cities to forage for food.
In Hoover Dam, quagga mussel begins to clog the pipelines feeding cooling water to the generators which cause it to shutdown. and as a result, the American Southwest including Las Vegas finally goes dark.
Without powering the generators, no water passes through Hoover Dam causing the Colorado River downstream to run dry while the water level rise in Lake Mead which eventually spill over the dam.
Triggered by lightning strikes, wildfires rage unchecked as it spread through cities like Chicago, San Francisco, and Rome.
The ivies in the Wrigley Field begins to spread across the whole stadium.
At the United States Capitol, the paint at the cast iron dome starts to break overtime and as it deteriorate, rust begins to be visible.
In the Lincoln Memorial, the drainage pipes starts to cracks and water damage the roof without routine cleaning causing little bit corrosion on the steel by water penetration.
In New York City, the plaza of the Rockefeller Center becomes a natural ice rink, then a garden and the gold skin of the Prometheus statue begin to be strip away, exposing the bronze beneath.
In the Everglades, the invasion of Burmese pythons begins to be heating up against the native alligators and could eventually outgrow them.
At the Burj Al Arab, hot salt air seeps in without air conditioners to battled and humidity causing mold, bacteria, and yeast to eat away the linens and walls while 9,000 tons of steel begins to corrode.
The last survivor of the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas, a rare white alligator, finally dies after a year of conserving energy.
400 commercial nuclear power plants reactor including the military sites unleash the deadly radiation and would become irradiated, miles wide dead zones.
The rats' population in an abandoned cargo ship experienced a population explosion but without people to use the bilge pump, water seeps in the ship, saturate the wheat, and thousands of rat flee to the upper decks.
The prototype Clock of the Long Now stop dead in the Science Museum in London.
Produce have almost completely decompose in grocery stores and some would be extinct like the bananas.
Suburban homes face a new set of enemies in the winter where pipes freeze and burst with the spring thawing the ice and unleashing fountains of liquid flooding the place, in which after the flood comes mold, dry rot, and attracting two insects, carpenter ants and termites, which sets the scene for a primordial battle within the rotting walls.
The wind turbines of Palm Springs becomes vulnerable to the wind itself as 100 mile an hour wind arrives, it cause vibration around the turbines causing it to torn apart, fly off, and cause mayhem.
Despite the electric barriers where long gone, the Asian carp still haven't taken over the Great Lakes because of other man-made barriers still blocking the way including the Chicago Harbor Lock.
At Andrews Air Force Base, Air Force One begins to rust while the tarmac is taken over by brush.
The waters of the flooded Naica Mine have allowed the crystals within the mine to grow up to 100 feet long.
Tropical and subtropical rainforests recover at an incredible rate, deforested areas have been reclaimed by nature.
In Brazil, the Atlantic Forest has begun to expand into São Paulo, grass has started to grow through Paulista Avenue, vines now cover the buildings and the city is slowly reverting back to a tropical forest.
In Mexico, the former Lake Texcoco begins to revive after years of diverting its waters away from Mexico City, soon 70% of Mexico City will be flooded.
2 years
The wires holding the cable cars in San Francisco rust and snap, causing it to break free and becomes an eight-ton missile of wood and steel, and rush down to slice through obstacles like a parked vehicle blocking its way.
Across the bay, the weakened ropes holding a 50,000 ton cargo ship snap from stress causing to set course to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge where the central hull is hit and water begins to fill in the cargo ship causing to sink and snap in half.
Without water from electric pumps, little will grow naturally besides the scrub of the Mojave Desert in Las Vegas.
Within the Las Vegas Springs Preserve Museum at the visitor's center, the voices of man still echo through the halls thanks to the 2,200 solar panels that covers the parking lot.
In the open seas, the rats turned on each other on the cargo ship and every rat dies from starvation or cannibalism and the bodies will become food for the hungry seabirds.
Insects finished off the last of the dry goods and many of them rely on human foods causing insects like store product pests, garden plants pests, and crop pests to become extinct.
Canned foods still rest on the shelves and some were destined to remain edible for hundreds of years but in hot humid regions, canned goods can experience a different fate by thermophilic spores, which cause the cans to explode from the gas produce by it.
Igloos vanish from Earth as the cold Arctic climate evaporates the snow material.
In Latin America, Plants and wild grasses have overrun the crops that once supported humanity.
Two years of uncontrolled replenishment has refilled Lake Texcoco that Mexico City was built in causing the buildings to begin to degrade and be at risk of falling due to the softening of their foundations by flooding.
The seeds remain in seed silos begins to ferment in a dangerous way, causing fires and even large spontaneous explosions.
3 years
The International Space Station loses altitude and falls to Earth, crashing into a nearby city, destroying the Immortality Drive in the process.
In the Los Angeles Freeways, grasses and other small plants quickly take over the freeways from the seed corridors within the roads.
The wind powered Ricoh Billboard in Times Square finally goes dark with no one to replace the lightbulbs.
Horses began to fled from New York City in order to find large patch of grasses around the state of New York.
Expected timescale where battery powered wrist watches would last and finally stop.
Guide dogs would die of starvation and would not be able to scavenge to survive because of several thousand hours of training hinders its instincts to hunt and leftovers of human society becomes scarce.
In Sacramento, the earthen levees begins to fail one after another during a winter storm with The Pocket being the first to be decimated while others where overtop by the water and breaches begins to spread.
Sacramento International Airport is inundated by more than 10 feet of water while 5 feet of water surrounds the California State Capitol.
Dogs that were able to survive in Sacramento face a new set of challenges with swimming dogs adapt to the repeated floods while other specialized breeds wipe out.
The rubber seal in the Chicago Harbor Lock fails from ice damage and the Asian carp begins colonizing the Great Lakes.
In Yellowstone National Park, the small surviving pockets of the Rocky Mountain locusts grows in the absence of humans.
4 years
In Sydney, corrosion is threatening to seize up the hinges that allow the Sydney Harbour Bridge to expand and contract.
Despite the invasion of Asian carp, it come face to face with the sea lampreys that was accidentally introduced from Lake Erie by the Saint Lawrence Seaway and wages war in the Great Lakes.
The reservoir of NORAD operations facility in Cheyenne Mountain Complex begins to leak due to lack of maintenance and would cause the structural integrity to slowly dripping away.
5 years
Most roadways around the world are disappearing beneath the greenery.
In London, Buckingham Palace is breached by vines and moss.
In Moscow, Red Square becomes green as it is overtaken by plant life.
In New York City, Central Park is untended and sprout with saplings causing the entire park into a forest.
In Washington D.C., the monuments are swallowed by greenery and the National Mall have become jungles as zoo animals occupy the park.
Escaped zoo animals dramatically change the environment like lions and tigers, where they were better at further south but are capable of figuring out what to do and how to survive.
Weeds have transformed Boston including its historic district, where the Old North Church is invaded by pigeons, vines, and maple trees.
At Chicago, the walls and stands of Wrigley Field are covered in ivy while buckthorn begins to taken over the pitch where it can grow up to 10 feet tall.
Beneath the waves not far from Miami, dolphins begins to learn the remnants of human civilization.
In Downtown Miami, escaped chimpanzees follow flocks of birds into the apartment buildings to eat their eggs but one intelligent chimp realizes that they need to let some eggs to survive in order to extend the food supply, which began the first steps towards animal husbandry.
In Atlantic City, feral cats moves in at the waterfront casinos along with bats that could make it a potential bat cave.
Rattlesnakes begins to return as an arm race between the rodents and snakes begins.
Lake freighters still prowl through the Great Lakes and all were heading to Niagara Falls however the International Railway Bridge is in the way and blocks the ship on its direction.
A typhoon bearing 200 mph wind struck Taipei causing glass to shatter on the lower levels of Taipei 101, allowing water to gush inside.
A degraded circuitry inside Air Force One fails and deploys the false target flares, causing the plant growth underneath the plane to catch fire and the flames soon reach the fuel tanks where it to explode and destroys the plane.
At Carlsbad Caverns, the influence of man still continue to felt as steady flow of toxins continue to flow into the caverns from cars like oil, antifreeze, and other fluids and if a lightning strikes one, it explode and leak all the melted plastic and chemicals associated with it.
Skyscrapers in Chile become home to birds of prey.
Hotels near the Brazilian coast begin to be degraded by the tide.
6 years
In the Mayacamas Mountains, the Geysers geothermal power plant explodes when years of pressure build up have let water touches the magma underneath the power plant causing a huge amount of superheated steam to overwhelm the power plant’s corroded pipes.
8 years
In Saturn, the mission of Cassini has ended but without Mission Control to operate its descent into Saturn's atmosphere to its demise, the probe and its stowaways extremophiles continues to orbit the gas giant.
After escaping the White House, Bo escape into the banks of the Potomac River before ending up in Chesapeake Bay where his natural instincts as a Portuguese water dog has taken effect and lives on a steady diet of fish, shellfish, and clams.
10 years
In Chicago, the Sears Tower is slowly deteriorating from years of rainwater as combination of snow, wind, and rain off Lake Michigan batter the structure causing the plates to peel off the building and crash into the streets below.
Without the Los Angeles Aqueduct to import billions of gallons water, the huge Canary Island palm trees lining at the streets of Beverly Hills are decaying and slowly dies from the top to bottom.
Outside of Los Angeles, lightning strike sets off a fire in the hills and fire rage across the city, burning the interior of the U.S. Bank Tower, the plant life between the fireproof stainless steel panels of the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the latex paint of the Hollywood Sign, and destroying the entirety of Grauman's Chinese Theatre.
Massive sandstorms called haboobs run rampant across Phoenix, breaking into the buildings and allowing the monsoon rains to fill inside the buildings to create mud.
In Philadelphia, the wind broke the windows of the west wing of Independence Hall allowing sunlight to beam down on the Declaration of Independence and erase the words within it.
In France, Lascaux II crumbles as steel and plaster construction falls apart.
The original Lascaux have returned to a natural balance without without body heat and daily disturbances of people.
In Las Vegas, the solar panels of the Las Vegas Springs Preserve Museum fall prey to dust and debris causing the last voices of man to fall silent and the lights to dim out.
The Grand Central Terminal in New York City has become a gathering place for owls.
The methane that has seeping into the tunnels beneath the MetLife Building are being mixed by other toxic fumes which eventually ignites from oxidation and results in a large explosion at the base of the building.
The manicured grounds of Oglethorpe University are covered in kudzu and wild poinsettia but the granite structure holding the Crypt of Civilization still stand secure.
In Dubai, the cables supporting one of the Burj Khalifa's window washing machine break loose and falls 2,000 feet to the desert below.
At Santa Monica Pier, the deck planks deteriorate and the buildings began to sink one after another through the pier.
The system's inverter of the Pacific Wheel which converts the solar power's DC current into usable AC electricity fails and the Ferris wheel turns dark.
Outside of Sacramento, water level is dangerously high at Folsom Dam which accumulated silt and dumping water in faster than it can flow out in a winter storm, resulting the collapse of the dam.
The massive amount of water released during the dam burst destroys the remaining levees of Sacramento, flow through the city, and wiping away all infrastructure within the city including the California State Capitol and Sacramento International Airport.
Airports are already crumbling and many weren't built to last.
Cars stranded in Latin America for ten years are devoured by rust and vegetation.
In Mexico City, the Zócalo has been submerged, the National Palace and the Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral have been flooded but it only takes one earthquake for the entire square to be completely submerged.
15 years
Outside of Atlantic City, the deteriorating structure of Lucy the Elephant is on its last legs and a single storm weakens one leg and the rest of the structure falls.
In Pearl Harbor, the lines holding the USS Missouri snaps and the ship breaks away from the dock, adrift within the harbor.
In Los Angeles, the Stahl House burns during a wildfire and although the structure survive, the vegetation that binds the soil is burned creating a weakness to the structure.
In suburban homes across the United States, bobcats begin to move in to set up dens.
House dust mites, once relied on the constant supply of human skin, begins to feed on the dander of the bobcats and it's legion of new roommates.
Bed bugs returns to being a parasites for birds and bats.
Human possessions are on the race of survival and the first to go are anything made of paper where it absorb moisture and have a perfect condition to decay.
Case-making moth begins to feed on natural fabrics left by man.
Some shoes could survive by being preserved in deprived environments like peat and mud but for the most, the leather would quickly decay.
The laminate on the particle board on household furniture become unglued causing the laminate to peel away and accelerate the decomposition of the particle board inside.
The thin and shiny gold and silver laminate on trophies begins to peel away or delaminate.
CDs and DVDs begins delaminate, crumble, and oxidize.
Photographs printed on cheap commercial paper rotted away from corrosive acids present in wood pulp.
The more expensive professional photographs could last longer but will eventually succumb to water damage and mold in time.
In New Mexico, the computer inside the solar powered radio station KTAO overheats when the cooling fan grind to a halt and the broadcast finally cease.
20 years
Houston is reclaimed by nature and slowly reverts to the swamp as the JPMorgan Chase Tower looms over the city.
In Astrodome, it swelters to 125 degrees in the summer, artificial grass is swallowed up by seeds and muck, and as it turned into a bat cave, bats contribute to the environment by dropping guano.
In Miami, invasive plants like Brazilian pepper and lygodium are aggressively growing against the buildings.
At Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center, the hundreds of stored military aircraft begins to decay once the Spraylat peels off in the wind, birds build nests in the exposed engine intakes, and the desert storm soon buried the fleet of planes into the desert sand.
The 7,000 foot seawall protecting Seattle from the saltwaters of Puget Sound gives way when gribbles chew through the wood of the seawall and turning much of downtown into saltwater march.
The International Railway Bridge collapse under pressure by ships and ice and the way to Niagara Falls is wide open.
In Milan, cracks begin to appear on The Last Supper from moisture as it flakes away.
In Palm Springs, the desert reconquers the city as the once lush golf courses turned into acres of sand traps, vermin invades the high end hotels, and luxury swimming pools are turned into empty cesspools.
In rural Pennsylvania, a late summer heat sparks a wildfire and advances to the bunkers of the fireworks factory where combined with water that infiltrate the deteriorating bunkers, ignites the gunpowder from fire seeping into cracks and fireworks explode all at once.
At Aldridge's Always Christmas Store, soil built up on the showroom, grass grows in the aisles of decorations, and vines climb up to plastic Santas and toy soldiers.
Fruitcakes shows no sign of decay because of one key ingredient, alcohol, that create an anaerobic environment.
In Alaska, although some reindeers interbred with their cousin the caribou, most died out because it falls behind the caribou from halving calves 1 month behind allowing predators to move in and the breed disappeared.
On Saturn, the Cassini smashes into Enceladus.
The White House returns to the original color being grey and the sandstone is degrading to mud as Washington D.C. returns to the watery wetlands.
In Brazil, the parks of São Paulo have gone out of their limits.
Outside of Mexico City, plant life has invaded the ruins of Teotihuacan without humans to maintain the site, completely covering the Avenue of the Dead, hiding it once again and eventually will disappear under plant growth.
25 years
In the countryside, nature takes over the overgrowing farmlands and crops completely dies.
In the suburbs, feral dogs roam in packs through decaying neighborhoods in order to scavenge for food.
In London, without people to seal off the Thames River with the Thames Barrier, the city floods from the repeated storms coming from the river.
In Amsterdam, water rises from the canals as the city floods from the North Sea.
As metal frames corrode from rust and shrinking the respective seals, the windows crack and fall like the the buildings of New York City which expose the interiors to the elements.
The copper lightning rods on top of skyscrapers are corroded and a lightning strike turn a building like 500 Fifth Avenue into a towering inferno.
Pigeons take up residence inside the buildings and adopt to it as kind of artificial cliff.
Cockroaches force to change habit after people and while some die in the first winter, many would survive by moving underground to find warmth until milder temperatures returned.
The wolf populations multiply by six times each year allowing the population to reach half a million.
Roads are no longer a barrier to the grizzly bears and instead become pathways that lead them back into the heart of their former range.
In the abandoned museums, without people to regulate the heat and humidity, the Egyptian mummies like Ramesses II and Tutankhamun were struck by mold then insects before the entire bodies were reduce to skeleton.
In Moscow, the embalmed body of Lenin inside of Lenin's Mausoleum, shares the same fate as his body rots away like the rotting pharaohs.
At the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, water leaks into one of the missiles of K-129 causing an explosion and the bomb's plutonium core scattered over and any sea creatures would die of radiation poisoning.
In Detroit, the atrium of the Renaissance Center are turned into a forest as shagbark hickories and giant oaks moved in while providing shelters to the local wildlife.
The Crystal Cathedral turns into a greenhouse and the 10,000 glass panels begins to crack and fall out as rubber and gaskets degrade.
Expected timescale where snack cakes like Twinkies could still remain edible.
30 years
Most of the world's dairy cows have died out with only a small surviving pockets begin a rapid evolutionary change that take them back to the wild.
In Denver, the roof of the Wells Fargo Center is covered in snow that drips moisture into the floors below and periodically cause an urban avalanche.
The lower parts of New Orleans is filled with water and ironically the levees of the city to keep water out holds the water within which creates new kinds of aquariums to the city.
Most semblances of a prepared meal have long disappeared with the restaurants in a dilapidated state.
Freeze-dried goods still remain edible.
The grocery stores have quickly deteriorate and the roof collapse from snow and rainfall.
In the American Midwest, the population of the Rocky Mountain locusts flourish once again.
The populations of grasshoppers exploded without people to use pesticides, causing birds to gorge more on it than the locusts.
The body of Chairman Mao Zedong at the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong remains surprisingly intact and if the wax rumor is true, the body on display in Beijing would destined to crack and warp rather than decay.
The City of Bogota is almost unrecognizable
The City of Caracas is once again a great valley.
35 years
In Boston, the wooden steeple of Old North Church collapse during a storm.
Without people to fortifying the beaches, Westhampton Beach, along the low lying areas of Long Island, floods by the Atlantic and the mansions and tens of thousands of homes were damaged.
40 years
In the suburbs, the wooden houses crumble as they are attacked by mold and termite infestations.
Stone houses could last longer but still prone to crumble after natural, chemical, and physical weathering processes and could eventually collapse.
Without people to repair them, minor leaks in earthen dams such as the Trinity Dam in California would burst and collapse.
Expected timescale where fabrics would ultimately decay.
50 years
The strain of neglect is beginning to show on the best design manmade structures like the Brooklyn Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge, where their steel cables starts to be weakened by corrosion and go down in time.
Former domestic parrots still retain the words and phrases of human speech.
The descendants of the Queen's corgis still prowl London but after breeding with other dogs, any traits of their royal lineage are long gone and have evolved into a pack of wild hounds.
In Atlanta, kudzu covered much of the city including the Georgia Dome which collapse and during a periodic drought, the kudzu dries and turns into a tinderbox and soon, a lightning strike sparks a fire, spread to the mass of kudzu and burns through the entire city, igniting the nearby Confederate Memorial Carving.
In Chicago, the Wrigley Field is unrecognizable as thick nets of buck-thorns blanketing the playing field and the wooden scoreboard crumbles from termite damage.
In Los Angeles, an earthquake measuring 8.0 dubbed the Big One strikes the city causing the top floors of the U.S. Bank Tower to collapse and the destruction of the Los Angeles City Hall and the Hollywood Sign.
In natural museum across the world, pyrite disease ravages the bones of the dinosaurs and the skeletons on display cracks and crumbles.
One of the stainless steel gargoyles of the Chrysler Building falls to the street of New York City below after corrosion loosen their connection.
Inside of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, the collapse of the proteins have let the lettuce seeds to die first.
In Atlantic City, Steel Pier is turning into a skeleton and collapse after constant wearing away by the ocean.
In Las Vegas, water returns to the city, which gradually alter the landscape.
A hurricane landfalls in Atlantic City and although some of the Atlantic City Boardwalk are buried by sand, others are exposed of it causing the wind to weaken the corroded metal tie-downs and turn the boardwalk into battering rams.
Seawater infiltrate the waterfront casinos of Atlantic City, causing the support subjected to the heaviest load collapse first by one after another where only half the building will fall then the middle and the last.
The roads leading to Pearl Harbor from nearby Honolulu are overtaken by the jungle.
Cars in Detroit starts to decay and turns into a skeleton within another 25 years.
In San Antonio, repeated rain have spawned cycles of flooding along the San Antonio River Walk causing the buildings tilting at odd angles as silt and sand inundate the area which eventually lead to buildings like Tower Life Building to collapse.
At the Alamo, an army of oak trees conquers the structure and begins to demolishing the walls.
Without people to control the crowded space ways, collisions with the almost 3,000 satellites orbiting Earth have multiplied which sends shards to other satellites or slam into each other and falls into Earth where it extinguish in the ocean.
In Seattle, the exterior of the Space Needle have flaked away and steel faces corrosion from leaves while the high altitude restaurant are a roosting place for peregrine falcons.
After cities being silent for generations of birds, the mating calls for songbirds and others have returned to their lower frequencies.
In Dubai, the Burj Al Arab collapses after the metal skin of the building falls away.
In the Gulf of Mexico, a century of hurricanes have reduced the 3800 oil platforms to one and a final wave during a hurricane topples the last rusting oil platform into the deep sea of the Gulf of Mexico.
On top of the Corcovado Mountain, the hands of Christ the Redeemer weakens and falls into the base of the structure.
Train cars carrying chlorine corrode and the undercarriage gives way, spreading chlorine across the environment: killing wildlife and creating a long term death of system, and the aquatic life within.
Although some German Shepherds mated with feral dogs, the distinctive breed will disappear because they couldn't breed among themselves to prevent fraternization in the ranks
Expected timescale on the decay of shoes, where the steel grommets and plastic tip last for fifty-sixty years.
Some ski runs are completely reverted to nature and others still remain thanks to being intensively engineered or graded that defied the return of nature.
The African lions spread out and adapted to the new environment in Southern California turning them into an apex predator and and in enough time, evolve into a new American lion.
During a winter storm, the devastating waves tears into the crumbling Santa Monica Pier and the Pacific Wheel are wipe away by powerful waves and wind but the A-frame shape remains.
The KVLY-TV mast collapses during an ice storm which cause huge stress on the section bolts.
The Spirit of St. Louis plunges from display after 3 cables and clamps that secure it fails.
The last drops of oil and antifreeze make its way through Carlsbad Caverns, where it then reconquered by bats and the guano provides fertile spawning grounds for millions of insects including millipedes, centipedes, and cockroaches.
The Forbidden City is covered in snow and the Hall of Supreme Harmony collapses.
In Versailles, the gardens of the Palace of Versailles are consumed by a forest and parts of the roof of the palace have collapse allowing water to leak into the Hall of Mirrors, rotting the oak supports and the mirror falls & shatters.
60 years
A lake freighter grounded in Niagara River is leaking iron ore while another empty lake freighter sheers off and tumbles over the edge of the Niagara Falls.
In New York City, the MetLife Building is already crumbling and building's steel and glass facade are assaulted by neglect.
In Milan, The Last Supper has flaked away and covered by mold and dust.
In Inglewood, Randy's Donuts collapse and destroys the restaurant below when water pools at the bottom of the hollow portion of the donut.
70 years
Shanghai is flooded from the Huangpu River.
The Oriental Pearl Tower collapses when the foundation of the structure rots away from the Huangpu River.
In Pearl Harbor, the USS Missouri is covered in greenery and vines creep up the structure and the massive 16-inch guns.
75 years
Most of the roughly 600 million automobiles in the world, even in the most forgiving of environments, will have rusted away to barely recognizable skeletal heaps.
In Boston, the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge is wearing away.
The supports under the skybridge of the Petronas Towers buckles from corrosion and falls to the mall below.
In Philadelphia, The elm wooden support that holds the Liberty Bell buckles and the bell splits and ring one last time after it falls.
The former stray dogs evolved back into the wild predators after a mass die-off.
The Jubilee Church still stands bright and tall because it was coated with photocatalytic cement and could last forever.
The Crystal Cathedral collapse from the process of corrosion after the windows all fell out.
Rattlesnakes grow up to nine feet long and have become an apex predator.
A heavy downpour rain cause the Stahl House to collapse and falls off its eroded cliff.
In Sydney, the Sydney Opera House collapse from the moist and salty air and the failure of the pilings cause the building to sinks into the harbour.
In Mexico City, water damage weakened the base of the pillar of the Angel of Independence causing it topple into the waters of Lake Texcoco below.
In Argentina, the Obelisk of Buenos Aires collapses from the failure of the subway below and rheas that returned to the city witness its collapse.
A small earthquake cause the World Trade Center Mexico City to collapse after the softening of its foundation.
The Itaipu Dam is now submerged by Parana river.
100 years
The Brooklyn Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge collapse when their cables snap and the roadway spills into the waters.
Exposed to the uncontrolled environment, Cellulose acetate films and photographs used throughout the 20th century begins to bubble and warp.
In libraries, mold spores struck books and eventually decays.
Lifespan of CDs and DVDs last for a few decades to a few centuries under ideal conditions.
Storm water mixed with acidic dropping penetrate the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge causing it to collapse.
In New York City, the copper skin of the Statue of Liberty begins to disintegrate and rivets starts to pull away.
In Houston, the Astrodome crumbles into great chunks and rains down into the stadium.
The Chicago 'L' collapse from disintegration in a domino effect.
In London, The tilt of Big Ben becomes unstable causing it to collapse.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch expands as plastics from North America, China, and Japan arrives.
In the National Archives Building, the encasement seal of the United States Constitution fails but microorganisms cannot attack it without at least 2% oxygen.
The newly built beaver dams in the Potomac River cause the National Mall to be flooded.
On the United States Capitol, the iron dome rust away and attracts pigeons & other birds for an ideal nesting place.
The stainless steel of the Walt Disney Concert Hall corroded away.
In the Los Angeles Freeways, rain transforms parts of it and becomes a gathering place for animals.
The cables of Roosevelt Island Tramway snap and the tram plunges 250 feet into the East River.
In the Florida Keys, parts of the Seven Mile Bridge falls apart and turns into a row of broken teeth.
In Phoenix, mud-filled floors cause the buildings like Chase Tower to collapse.
At the Everglades, the more than 1,000 miles of man-made earthen barriers fails from burrows of thousands of sailfin catfish.
The structures of Kennedy Space Center are victimized by the repeated South Florida hurricanes.
The beaches of Miami are consumed by the Atlantic and the buildings like Blue and Green Diamond collapses into the grasp of the ocean.
One spans of San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge collapse to the deck after dirt clogs in the expansion joint.
Inside the Louvre, the Mona Lisa is consumed by deathwatch beetles.
Fine grains of windblown sand begins to erase the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign.
The 28,500 glass panes of the Luxor Las Vegas are broken but the concrete structure remain because of the stable shape of the pyramid.
The roof of the Turin Cathedral collapse allowing fungus to destroy the Shroud of Turin.
The glazing panels of the Gherkin begins to fall out of the external skin.
Moisture slowly rust the file cabinets allowing mold to spread the files.
Safes are no match from the spreading fires on days on end as it take 2 hours for the heat to begin penetrating the weakened steel and the papers to be incinerate within.
The buildings of Co-op City collapse from the floodwaters and a winter storm.
The Silver Bullet collapse from corrosion cause by water trapped by the sand inside of the rails.
The pressure from the seized hinges and severe corrosion cause the Sydney Harbour Bridge to collapse into Sydney Harbour.
Unchecked tree growth of the London plane covers Grant's Tomb like a shroud.
The Pan-American Highway is now in ruins, and nothing remains but the remains of cars and concrete that were abandoned a century ago.
The descendants of zoo animals in Latin America populate their sites of origin.
The San Roque Gonzalez de Santa Cruz Bridge succumbs to corrosion and collapses.
In Rio de Janeiro, the head and arms of the Christ the Redeemer Statue are covered in vines, creating a carpet of green on the statue.
110 years
Marine animals turns the sunken oil platforms into their new habitats.
120 years
Palm Springs reverts completely into the desert.
The wires of the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway snaps and the gondola hits one tower, triggering a collapse in a domino effect.
125 years
In Moscow, St. Basil's Cathedral collapse from water damage.
The LAX Control Tower at Los Angeles International Airport collapses during a 6.5 earthquake while the Theme Building survives.
130 years
Fruitcakes continue to defy decay.
150 years
In New York City, the support columns of the flooded subways fail causing cave-ins and forming trenches on the streets above.
Vines have grown up the sides of the abandoned skyscrapers to feed off water that allows a vertical ecosystem.
Cats begins to move into the skyscrapers and may evolve into species similar to flying squirrels.
Dogs have reverted to the way of their ancestors with some interbred with wolves.
The population of marine life skyrocketed without people and the ocean recovers.
After a massive die-off, seagulls began to flourish by taking an advantage of the recovering ocean.
In Boston, the John Hancock Tower collapse from corrosion.
Human speech in parrots drop off 90% per generation and the human vocalization disappears.
Herds of elephants begin to appear in the pasture land of North America.
Plant life covers most of the plaza at the Rockefeller Center.
In the Everglades, Burmese pythons dominate the entire swampland and have spread 40% of the lower United States.
The roadway of the Ambassador Bridge falls into the Detroit River.
The central tower of the Renaissance Center collapse and brings down one of the adjoining buildings.
The levees of New Orleans crumbles, lowering the water levels and introducing more saltwater.
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum crumbles during an earthquake.
The MetLife Building collapse and falls into the Grand Central Terminal.
The Clock of the Long Now lies in the rubble after collapse of the Science Museum in London.
The floors of the Gherkin collapse but the skeleton remains.
Monticello crumbles piece by piece.
In Sao Paulo, the Edifício Copan collapse.
In Santiago, the Titanium La Portada collapse from corrosion.
An earthquakes strike Mexico City, causing the Torre Mayor to collapse.
175 years
Plant life returns completely to the former dead zones around the nuclear power plants and the cooling towers collapse.
In Los Angeles, the Capitol Records Building collapse but the echo chambers underneath the building survive.
At the United Nations Headquarters, the roof of the General Assembly Building caves in while the Secretariat Building collapse into the East River.
In Washington D.C. , the sandstone of the White House degrades to mud leading to its collapse.
In New York City, the entombed body of Ulysses Grant at Grant's Tomb is buried under six feet of earth by the London plane.
200 years
Without maintenance, the Eiffel Tower collapse into the Champ de Mars.
In Seattle, corrosion cause the Space Needle to collapse.
Saturated soil around the Empire State Building allows it to lean and collapse from the skyline.
The elevators of the Sears Tower freefalls and the flooded underground floors of the building cause it to collapse.
In Houston, centuries of hurricanes and exposure to nature storms lead the JPMorgan Chase Tower to collapse.
The crumbling floors of the Chrysler Building triggers a cascading collapse.
The moorings of the Grand Canyon Skywalk breaks way and the skywalk falls into the canyon floor.
In Miami, what the chimpanzees learned over the last 200 years would allow them to use the tools and domesticated animals to become a dominant lifeform.
Debris around the shallows of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge forms new land.
The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign falls flat during a desert thunderstorm.
In Denver, the Wells Fargo Center collapse in a violent cascade.
On the Colorado prairie, the descendants of domestic cattle carved out a new way of life in a characteristics similar to a deer.
The population of bisons on the Colorado prairie explodes.
The towers of the Ambassador Bridge yields and falls on both sides of the river.
In San Antonio, the San Antonio River swallows the city.
The Alamo collapse from years of uncontrolled tree growth.
The populations of the Texas Longhorns numbered into tens of millions.
In Taipei, the damper of Taipei 101 fails and the skyscraper collapse.
Around the hills of Hearst Castle, zebras thrive by living in the grassy areas.
Attacks of salt crystals and a 7.2 earthquake cause the Hearst Castle to crumble.
Earthquakes in Alaska cause the Trans-Alaska Pipeline to spill.
Jesuit temples built in Paraguay in the 17th century could survive better than many modern buildings.
In Rio de Janeiro, one of the arms of the Christ the Redeemer falls.
250 years
In Chicago, the John Hancock Center collapse in a floor-by-floor implosion.
The roof of the Lincoln Memorial collapse, destroying the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the process.
The weight of the Statue of Freedom on top of the United States Capitol cause the dome to cave in.
The rotunda of the National Archives collapse and the words of the United States Constitution fades away by sunlight.
In St. Louis, the keystone of the Gateway Arch buckles which lead to the structure collapse.
In Pearl Harbor, water penetrated the hull of the USS Missouri and the warship sinks into the mud of the harbor bottom but its hull could last long enough to become an underwater reef.
Extreme plant growth chokes the Colosseum but volcanic ash continues to hold the structure.
In Rio de Janeiro, a strong wind topples the Christ the Redeemer.
In Dubai, ocean humidity and a huge sandstorm cause the Burj Khalifa to collapse.
In Sao Paulo, the Edifício Itália collapse.
300 years
In New York City, the Statue of Liberty breaks into pieces and some turns into fossil beneath the ocean floor of the once Liberty Island.
Rabies struggle to survive as it can only infect to a little as several thousand animals per year.
The Liberty Bell is half-buried amidst the trees and the inscription may be one of the last visible pieces.
Within the rubble of Independence Hall, the first blast of air cause the Declaration of Independence to disintegrate.
In Las Vegas, plant life grows in clump wherever the water grows and new pockets of groundwater wreak havoc among the structures.
The Stratosphere Tower collapse during an earthquake.
A category 4 hurricane cause One Shell Square in New Orleans to collapse.
Rising sea level in Annapolis led to the flooding of the crypt of John Paul Jones.
In London, the English weather cause the Gherkin to buckles and falls into the financial district, destroying nearby buildings including St. Andrew Undershaft.
The Marine Corps War Memorial continue to endure as swamp weeds cluster the memorial.
The generators in the Corbis Archive fails causing the refrigeration to stop and the prized photographs deteriorate.
500 years
The most modern concrete structures like reinforced concrete crumbles away once the iron rebar supports inside succumb to the expansion of rust.
The exterior bracing buttresses of the Sistine Chapel fails and collapse in a chain reaction.
The copper rods atop of the Washington Monument fails and a lightning strike leave burn marks on the structure.
In Kuala Lumpur, the Petronas Towers collapse in a progressive effect.
A huge tree overgrown the remains of the Christ the Redeemer.
Corrosion cause the dome of St. Peter's Basilica to collapse.
Expected timescale where the Grand Central Terminal will still be recognizable.
The dome of Thomas Jefferson Building collapse.
Pyramiden continues to be recognizable.
The population of prairie dogs explode and the black-footed ferret returns to hunt down the animal.
Sao Paulo is overtaken by the rainforest.
Rio de Janeiro is consumed by the Atlantic Forest.
Buenos Aires is consumed partly by the waters of Rio de la Plata and partly by vegetation.
Lake Texcoco returned as Mexico City is unrecognizabled.
600 years
In Los Angeles, the concrete core of the US Bank Tower collapse by a moderate earthquake.
The plastics of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch degrades into smaller compounds and continues to toxify the ocean creatures and birds.
1,000 years
Almost all traces of human culture and civilization are unrecognizable.
New York City is transformed by nature as Minetta Street returns to being Minetta Brook, Civic Center turns into an amphitheater of hills, and Times Square turns into a meadow.
Rising sea level cause the Atlantic Ocean to flood Washington D.C. with the Lincoln Memorial still remain intact and the United States Capitol to be similar to The Forum in Rome.
The Washington Monument begins to sink from erosion with submerging being the only chance to remain intact.
An earthquake cause the Taj Mahal to collapse.
Las Vegas becomes little more than a jagged mound and creosote bushes and other rough vegetation colonize the remains of the buildings.
Detroit transforms into a wetlands with massive oak trees.
On the Moon, three Moon buggies left behind by the Apollo missions remain in near mint condition.
In the transformed New Orleans, only the Mardi Gras Beads remain buried in mud and muck.
Mud seeps into the coffins within the cemeteries of New Orleans after geologic forces pile up sediments leading the city to lie beneath the Mississippi Delta.
An earthquake cause the Colosseum to collapse.
Anatolian Shepherd Dogs avoided interbred with other dogs and continue to remain guard duty for the flock.
The Molinere Underwater Sculpture Park transforms into coral reefs.
The statue of El Caballito in Mexico City survives below the waters of Lake Texcoco.
Popocatepetl erupts and destroys what remains of Mexico City.
1,500 years
At the Niagara Falls, the American Falls run dry after the Canadian Falls eroded upstream of Goat Island.
2,000 years
Phoenix once again becomes a vast savanna.
Dolphins still remember their encounters with humans.
Many species thriving in the land are invasive species and have permanently change the landscape.
Within the ruins of the Louvre Museum, the Venus de Milo survives and is being slowly reburied.
The Notre-Dame de Paris still stands because of being held together by gravity.
The text of the Rosetta Disk are accumulate by a kind of microscopic goo and the Smithsonian Institution collapse which lead the disk being crushed in rubble.
The Cheyenne Mountain Complex still stands and it is entombed forever.
4,000 years
Honey stored in glass jars still remain fresh and eternally survive.
5,000 years
90% of the Confederate Memorial Carving on Stone Mountain is still completely intact.
At the base of Mount Everest, glacial ice thaws reveals a long buried mountain climber but water and bacteria soon decompose the body.
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At Oglethorpe University, the site is overgrown on surface level, below ground, the walls of the Crypt of Civilization cracked and breached and moisture and corrosion decimated the artifacts inside.
10,000 years
The radio and television signals that were beamed into space will dissipate at close to two light years and would not even reach to Alpha Centauri.
The Great Wall of China have aged like mountains and could be recognizable for eons.
The Pyramids of Giza endured long enough to be swallowed up by the Sahara Desert.
Hoover Dam collapse during an earthquake.
Mount Rushmore is still recognizable and could be possibly viewed by chimpanzees if it evolve to take up the mantle of civilization.
In Antarctica, huts built by Shackleton and Robert Scott decays and disappears without a trace cause by the warming of the planet.
On the shorelines of the once New York City, descendants of horses roam the beaches and because of lack of nutrients, it evolved to much smaller than their ancestors.
Beneath hundreds of feet of once Manhattan, the vault of the Federal Reserve Bank, flooded from the rising sea level, still holds $200 billion of gold bars intact and the gold could last millions of years.
Descendants of housecats still survive in the wild but those isolated in islands.