The annals of historyare full of incredible photographs that have allowed us to preserve the world's most glorious moments as they happened. That, and you, seven years ago, at your most drunken, drug-fueled worst.

With the former, however, many of us have wondered what the world long past might have looked like in crisper detail -- with the higher-resolution cameras and incredible color gamuts available to us now. Unfortunately, unless you have an eBaums World brand time machine, it's impossible to go back in time and see firsthand.

But we can get pretty dang close, thanks to modern colorization "techniques."