These are the world’s oldest landmarks still standing, relics that defy the erosion of millennia. From the enigmatic pillars of a Turkish hilltop, carved before cities existed, to the sunlit ...

The oldest Catholic cathedral in continuous use in the United States, St. Louis Cathedral was originally built in the early 1700s. The structure standing today is actually the third cathedral ...

Catedral de San Ildefonso, also known as the Mérida Cathedral, is the oldest cathedral in Mexico. Completed at the end of the 16th century, the structure stands tall on the site of an ancient ...

Sean Marrow, a local high school history teacher, is the foremost authority on the legacy of the oldest standing Catholic church west of the Alleghenies. He says that it took the 30-some Irish ...