Ephemeros for

Landmarks

Every landmark has a timeline. See how the places worth visiting are changing — and add your photo to the record.

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Pick a fixed viewpoint

A “spot” is a documented frame — coordinates, compass heading and tilt — that anyone can find again.

Line up with the ghost

The previous photo floats over your camera so every capture matches the original framing exactly.

Watch change unfold

Aligned photos become a timelapse — and an open, research-grade record of how the place changes.

Statues, arches, viewpoints, town squares, waterfalls, city gates — landmarks are the most photographed places on Earth, and almost every photo of them disappears into a camera roll. Ephemeros gives each landmark one fixed frame instead: a spot with a set framing that everyone photographs the same way, so all those photos line up into a single, living timelapse of the place itself.

The landmark stays put. Everything around it moves — seasons, light, crowds, scaffolding, restorations, the skyline behind it. That's what a landmark spot captures.

What a landmark spot gives you

See it as it stands today. Before you visit, check the spot: is it under scaffolding, in autumn colour, snowed in, freshly restored? The newest photo is the answer, and the timelapse is the context.
Watch it across the years. Renovations come and go, trees grow, the backdrop fills with construction — play years of a famous view in seconds.
Adopt a landmark. Live near one? Keep its record alive with a photo whenever you pass. The most loved landmark timelapses are built by locals, one frame at a time.
A QR at the viewpoint. Every spot has a printable QR sticker — scan it on site and it takes you straight to the framing, ghost overlay ready.
Build landmark trails. Group the landmarks of a city or a region into a list — a walking tour where every stop shows you its own history.
Restorations on the record. Scaffolding up, wraps on, wraps off — a landmark's repair years are part of its story, and the timelapse keeps them.

A postcard shows a landmark on its best day. A landmark spot shows the truth: the place as it actually looks, week after week, year after year — recorded by everyone who ever stood in front of it and cared enough to line up the shot.