You've gotta see this. Using what we assume was the camera projection feature in 3ds Max, digital artist Alexey Zakharov has created some stunningly real-looking videos of long-gone urban scenes, using scans of old photos of New York, Boston and Washington, D.C. as his starting point. Take a look:

New Yorkers among you: Do you recognize the locations of the Manhattan shots? In particular there's a shot of the famed "Bloody Angle" that sent chills up my spine.

Moscow-based Zakharov calls the project "The Old New World." Here's to hoping he creates more!