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The caves in Palo Duro Canyon.

The Great Wall of China would be something to see.

Stonehenge - believed to have been constructed from 3000 - 2000 BC

Broughton Castle - England - construction began 1306

The town of Bodicote, Oxfordshire, England, where my mother and grandparents lived, dates to the 11th Century

The church in Bodicote, where grandparents AND my parents were married, dates to the 13th Century...

St Augustine - ???? barely makes a mention.... in comparison.

It's been a while since I was there, but there is a place on the creek where the wagons use to cross. You can see the old wagon ruts going out thru the woods for a ways. This place is about 1/2 mile downstream from the current road. To the oldtimers around, I'm guessing Dad might be the last, this place on the creek was called 'the ol ford', for obvious reasons. Dad says he never remembered it being used and the road was in its present location when he was a young boy.

Another place down same creek a ways is a steep hillside that someone farmed long ago. They took the native iron ore rocks and made there terraces with them. Dad said that he never remembered anyone farming that place.

I referred to Dad in both instances.... Dad will be 96 next month and is about the oldest person around.

My house was built in 1820... 202 years old.

There is a lot of "oldish" stuff here in Virginia.

San Salvador in the Bahamas where Columbus made first landfall.

Magellan’s landfall in Guam.

Hue, founded circa 400 AD. I may have farted a few times when flying overhead.

Everglades was a family camping and hunting place. Began in the early ‘50s, last time I hunted there was ‘86.

All but one of the homes I lived in during those times have been erased by progress.

I’ve been in that exact spot

Graveyard in Portsmouth, NH..... Being from La., it was strange to see grave stones from the 1700's.

I climbed the fantastic Maya pyramid at Chichen Itza. Probably built 1,000 years ago. Walked through the Acropolis one time in Athens.

It ain't that old but I've been under the Lincoln Memorial

Been a few historic places.

Campbeltown
Cyprus
Clover Bend, Arkansas and Shirey Bay
Kinshaza and Kolwezi
Copan and Comayagua

Douglas pass and Canyon Pintado









Seems important to me to recognize that the ground all of our houses sits on has a history that goes back to creation. Prairieville, Illinois will never draw the tourist crowds of Rome or Great Britain. There's history there still.
Some fascinating stuff found in the driftless zone of the upper midwest.

Earth...4.5 billion years old.

Been there a couple of times. It’s an awesome place.
Also Chaco Canyon, and Monument Valley. And Folsom, NM and the Alibates Flint Quarries in the TX Panhandle. It’s probably as old as the Folsom & Clovis sights, as far as early N American tool making by “Native Americans”.

Around here, you have to look hard to find anything man made which is over 100 years old. This part of the country pretty much belonged to the Indians until nearly 1880. There is not much left to show they were here but a few arrow heads.

The College of Idaho in Caldwell Id was founded in 1909. The train depot in town is not much older.

Completed 1910, photo 1918, Sterry Hall College of Idaho




Construction for Owyhee Dam was started in 1928. It is a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Owyhee River in Eastern Oregon near Adrian, Oregon. At 417 feet, it was the tallest dam in the world at that time. As memory serves.

This dam was constructed in the same manner as was used to build Hoover Dam later. Owyhee Dam was actually "proof of concept" for the construction technique.

Rift Valley...

The naming of the Owyhees is a cool little history lesson.

Bottom of the Grand Canyon. The rock is 1.8 billion years old.

Where in tge Canyon did you go?

Backpacked it before but looking for more suggestions.

Safari?

We were on a rafting trip.