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1800 CE – 2026 CE

Landmarks of the modern era

515 landmarks whose span overlaps this band, grouped by region and listed in order.

Europe · 95

Carnac Stones 3300 BCE – still standing Akrotiri 3000 BCE – still standing Aurora Borealis 3000 BCE – still standing Białowieża Forest 3000 BCE – still standing Cappadocia Fairy Chimneys 3000 BCE – still standing Caucasus Mountains 3000 BCE – still standing Cliffs of Moher 3000 BCE – still standing Curonian Spit 3000 BCE – still standing Danube Delta 3000 BCE – still standing Dolomites 3000 BCE – still standing Geysir Geothermal Area 3000 BCE – still standing Giant's Causeway 3000 BCE – still standing Göbekli Tepe 3000 BCE – still standing Lapland Wilderness 3000 BCE – still standing Lofoten Islands 3000 BCE – still standing Matterhorn 3000 BCE – still standing Meteora 3000 BCE – still standing Mount Ararat 3000 BCE – still standing Mount Etna 3000 BCE – still standing Mount Olympus 3000 BCE – still standing Newgrange 3000 BCE – still standing Norwegian Fjords 3000 BCE – still standing Ordesa y Monte Perdido 3000 BCE – still standing Pamukkale 3000 BCE – still standing Plitvice Lakes 3000 BCE – still standing Postojna Cave 3000 BCE – still standing Santorini Caldera 3000 BCE – still standing Scottish Highlands 3000 BCE – still standing Stonehenge 3000 BCE – still standing Tabernas Desert 3000 BCE – still standing Troy 3000 BCE – still standing Vatnajökull Glacier 3000 BCE – still standing Verdon Gorge 3000 BCE – still standing Wadden Sea 3000 BCE – still standing Knossos 2000 BCE – still standing Hattusa 1600 BCE – still standing Mycenae 1600 BCE – still standing Cádiz 1100 BCE – still standing Ephesus 1000 BCE – still standing Carthage 814 BCE – still standing Butrint 800 BCE – 1800 CE Delphi 800 BCE – still standing Derinkuyu Underground City 800 BCE – 1923 CE Epidaurus 600 BCE – still standing Marseille 600 BCE – still standing Pompeii 600 BCE – still standing Parthenon 447 BCE – still standing Mérida (Augusta Emerita) 25 BCE – still standing Colosseum 80 CE – still standing Hadrian's Wall 122 CE – still standing Pantheon 125 CE – still standing Constantinople 330 CE – still standing Hagia Sophia 537 CE – still standing Canterbury Cathedral 597 CE – still standing Great Mosque of Kairouan 670 CE – still standing Ragusa (Dubrovnik) 700 CE – 1808 CE Abbey of Saint Gall 719 CE – still standing Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba 784 CE – still standing Venice 800 CE – still standing Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela 829 CE – still standing Rila Monastery 927 CE – still standing St. Bavo's Cathedral 942 CE – still standing Westminster Abbey 960 CE – still standing Mount Athos 963 CE – still standing Sveti Tskhoveli Cathedral 1010 CE – still standing Kyiv Pechersk Lavra 1051 CE – still standing Grossmünster 1100 CE – still standing St. Stephen's Cathedral 1137 CE – still standing Notre-Dame de Paris 1163 CE – still standing Borgund Stave Church 1180 CE – still standing Chartres Cathedral 1194 CE – still standing Hamburg 1200 CE – still standing Lisbon 1200 CE – still standing Geghard Monastery 1215 CE – still standing Alhambra 1238 CE – still standing Cologne Cathedral 1248 CE – still standing Florence Cathedral 1296 CE – still standing Dom Tower of Utrecht 1321 CE – still standing St. Vitus Cathedral 1344 CE – still standing Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp 1352 CE – still standing Wawel Cathedral 1364 CE – still standing Milan Cathedral 1386 CE – still standing Antwerp 1400 CE – still standing Jerónimos Monastery 1501 CE – still standing St. Peter's Basilica 1506 CE – still standing St. Basil's Cathedral 1555 CE – still standing Süleymaniye Mosque 1557 CE – still standing Amsterdam 1585 CE – still standing Sultan Ahmed Mosque 1609 CE – still standing Portuguese Synagogue (Esnoga) 1675 CE – still standing Helsinki Cathedral 1830 CE – still standing Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes 1858 CE – still standing Basilica of Our Lady of Africa 1872 CE – still standing Sagrada Família 1882 CE – still standing Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood 1883 CE – still standing

Middle East · 63

Jericho (Tell es-Sultan) 9000 BCE – still standing Ur 3800 BCE – still standing Al Wahbah Crater 3000 BCE – still standing Asir Mountains 3000 BCE – still standing Badab-e Surt 3000 BCE – still standing Bayuda Desert 3000 BCE – still standing Bozzhira Valley 3000 BCE – still standing Danakil Depression 3000 BCE – still standing Dasht-e Lut 3000 BCE – still standing Dead Sea 3000 BCE – still standing Edge of the World (Jebel Fihrayn) 3000 BCE – still standing Jebel Shams 3000 BCE – still standing Mount Damavand 3000 BCE – still standing Musandam Peninsula 3000 BCE – still standing Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter) 3000 BCE – still standing Socotra Island 3000 BCE – still standing Wadi Hadramaut 3000 BCE – still standing Wadi Rum 3000 BCE – still standing Wadi Shab 3000 BCE – still standing Wahiba Sands 3000 BCE – still standing Great Pyramid of Giza 2560 BCE – still standing Great Sphinx of Giza 2500 BCE – still standing Baalbek 2000 BCE – still standing Temple of Karnak 2000 BCE – still standing Valley of the Kings 1539 BCE – still standing Mount Nebo 1400 BCE – still standing Temple of Luxor 1400 BCE – still standing Abu Simbel 1264 BCE – still standing Meroe 750 BCE – still standing Persepolis 515 BCE – still standing Aden 500 BCE – still standing Axum 400 BCE – still standing Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion 400 BCE – still standing Alexandria 331 BCE – still standing Petra 300 BCE – still standing Palmyra 200 BCE – still standing Western Wall 19 BCE – still standing Church of the Nativity 326 CE – still standing Church of the Holy Sepulchre 335 CE – still standing Yazd Atash Behram 470 CE – still standing St. Catherine's Monastery & Mount Sinai 548 CE – still standing Muscat 600 CE – still standing Mosque of the Companions 615 CE – still standing Al-Masjid an-Nabawi (Prophet's Mosque) 622 CE – still standing Great Mosque of Sana'a 630 CE – still standing Al-Masjid al-Haram 638 CE – still standing Cairo (Fustat) 641 CE – still standing Dome of the Rock 691 CE – still standing Al-Khamis Mosque 692 CE – still standing Al-Aqsa Mosque 705 CE – still standing Umayyad Mosque 715 CE – still standing Imam Reza Shrine 818 CE – still standing Al-Azhar Mosque 970 CE – still standing Shrine of Imam Ali 977 CE – still standing Sultan Sanjar Mausoleum 1157 CE – still standing Rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela 1181 CE – still standing Shah Mosque 1611 CE – still standing Nasir al-Mulk Mosque 1888 CE – still standing Our Lady of Lebanon 1908 CE – still standing Al-Muhdhar Mosque 1914 CE – still standing Darvaza Gas Crater 1971 CE – still standing Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque 2001 CE – still standing Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque 2007 CE – still standing

South Asia · 41

K2 (Mount Godwin-Austen) 3000 BCE – still standing Mount Everest 3000 BCE – still standing Mount Kailash 3000 BCE – still standing Sundarbans 3000 BCE – still standing Thar Desert 3000 BCE – still standing Western Ghats 3000 BCE – still standing Mohenjo-daro 2500 BCE – still standing Lumbini 563 BCE – still standing Bodh Gaya (Mahabodhi Temple) 528 BCE – still standing Sarnath 528 BCE – still standing Sanchi Stupa 300 BCE – still standing Somnath Temple 300 BCE – still standing Ajanta Caves 200 BCE – still standing Temple of the Tooth 300 CE – still standing Tirumala Venkateswara Temple 300 CE – still standing Pashupatinath Temple 400 CE – still standing Sigiriya 477 CE – still standing Kashi Vishwanath Temple 490 CE – still standing Boudhanath Stupa 600 CE – still standing Ellora Caves 600 CE – still standing Potala Palace 637 CE – still standing Kedarnath Temple 800 CE – still standing Bagan 849 CE – still standing Temples of Bagan 849 CE – still standing Calicut 1000 CE – still standing Brihadeshvara Temple 1010 CE – still standing Dilwara Temples 1031 CE – still standing Jagannath Temple 1161 CE – still standing Ramanathaswamy Temple 1200 CE – still standing Konark Sun Temple 1250 CE – still standing Sixty Dome Mosque 1459 CE – still standing Blue Mosque of Mazar-i-Sharif 1481 CE – still standing Goa 1510 CE – still standing Meenakshi Temple 1600 CE – still standing Golden Temple 1604 CE – still standing Taj Mahal 1632 CE – still standing Jama Masjid 1656 CE – still standing Badshahi Mosque 1673 CE – still standing Calcutta (Kolkata) 1690 CE – still standing Taktsang Palphug Monastery 1692 CE – still standing Faisal Mosque 1986 CE – still standing

East Asia · 50

Chocolate Hills 3000 BCE – still standing Gobi Desert 3000 BCE – still standing Guilin Karst Landscape 3000 BCE – still standing Ha Long Bay 3000 BCE – still standing Huangshan (Yellow Mountains) 3000 BCE – still standing Inle Lake 3000 BCE – still standing Jeju Island 3000 BCE – still standing Jiuzhaigou Valley 3000 BCE – still standing Lake Baikal 3000 BCE – still standing Lake Khövsgöl 3000 BCE – still standing Lena Pillars 3000 BCE – still standing Mekong Delta 3000 BCE – still standing Mount Fuji 3000 BCE – still standing Mount Kinabalu 3000 BCE – still standing Phang Nga Bay 3000 BCE – still standing Puerto Princesa Underground River 3000 BCE – still standing Taman Negara 3000 BCE – still standing Yakushima 3000 BCE – still standing Zhangjiajie Pillars 3000 BCE – still standing Great Wall of China 700 BCE – still standing Temple of Confucius, Qufu 478 BCE – still standing Terracotta Army 210 BCE – still standing Guangzhou 200 BCE – still standing Ise Grand Shrine 4 BCE – still standing White Horse Temple 68 CE – still standing Longmen Grottoes 493 CE – still standing Shaolin Temple 495 CE – still standing Bulguksa Temple 528 CE – still standing Shwedagon Pagoda 600 CE – still standing Sensō-ji 645 CE – still standing Quanzhou 700 CE – still standing Fushimi Inari-taisha 711 CE – still standing Leshan Giant Buddha 713 CE – still standing Tōdai-ji 752 CE – still standing Haeinsa Temple 802 CE – still standing Angkor Wat 1113 CE – still standing Sukhothai 1238 CE – still standing Kinkaku-ji 1397 CE – still standing Malacca 1400 CE – still standing Rai Stones of Yap 1400 CE – still standing Forbidden City 1406 CE – still standing Wudang Mountains Temples 1412 CE – still standing Temple of Heaven 1420 CE – still standing Pha That Luang 1566 CE – still standing Manila 1571 CE – still standing Nagasaki 1571 CE – still standing Erdene Zuu Monastery 1585 CE – still standing San Agustin Church 1587 CE – still standing Thiên Mụ Pagoda 1601 CE – still standing Wat Phra Kaew 1782 CE – still standing

Africa · 54

Atlas Mountains 3000 BCE – still standing Bandiagara Escarpment 3000 BCE – still standing Bazaruto Archipelago 3000 BCE – still standing Blyde River Canyon 3000 BCE – still standing Congo Rainforest 3000 BCE – still standing Drakensberg Mountains 3000 BCE – still standing Ennedi Plateau 3000 BCE – still standing Fish River Canyon 3000 BCE – still standing Jebel Marra 3000 BCE – still standing Lake Chad 3000 BCE – still standing Lake Malawi 3000 BCE – still standing Lake Nakuru 3000 BCE – still standing Lake Retba (Lac Rose) 3000 BCE – still standing Mount Kenya 3000 BCE – still standing Mount Kilimanjaro 3000 BCE – still standing Mount Nimba 3000 BCE – still standing Mount Teide 3000 BCE – still standing Ngorongoro Crater 3000 BCE – still standing Niger Inner Delta 3000 BCE – still standing Okavango Delta 3000 BCE – still standing Rwenzori Mountains 3000 BCE – still standing Sahara Desert 3000 BCE – still standing Serengeti National Park 3000 BCE – still standing Skeleton Coast 3000 BCE – still standing Sossusvlei 3000 BCE – still standing Sudd Wetlands 3000 BCE – still standing Table Mountain 3000 BCE – still standing Taï National Park 3000 BCE – still standing Tibesti Mountains 3000 BCE – still standing Tsingy de Bemaraha 3000 BCE – still standing Victoria Falls 3000 BCE – still standing Virunga Mountains 3000 BCE – still standing Wli Waterfalls 3000 BCE – still standing Thimlich Ohinga 1400 BCE – 1900 CE Leptis Magna 1000 BCE – still standing Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove 200 BCE – still standing Ile-Ife 500 CE – still standing Mombasa 900 CE – still standing Zanzibar 900 CE – still standing Bandiagara Cliff Settlements 1000 CE – still standing Great Zimbabwe 1100 CE – still standing Timbuktu 1100 CE – still standing Great Mosque of Djenné 1240 CE – still standing Larabanga Mosque 1421 CE – still standing Tomb of the Askia 1495 CE – still standing Royal Hill of Ambohimanga 1500 CE – still standing Robben Island 1658 CE – still standing St. George's Cathedral 1848 CE – still standing Christ Church, Zanzibar 1879 CE – still standing Cathedral Notre-Dame du Congo 1914 CE – still standing Namugongo Martyrs' Shrine 1920 CE – still standing Great Mosque of Touba 1963 CE – still standing Basilica of Our Lady of Peace 1985 CE – still standing Hassan II Mosque 1986 CE – still standing

Americas · 139

Ischigualasto (Valley of the Moon) 9000 BCE – still standing Quebrada de Humahuaca 9000 BCE – still standing Cueva de las Manos 7300 BCE – still standing Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump 3700 BCE – 1850 CE Aconcagua 3000 BCE – still standing Amazon Rainforest 3000 BCE – still standing Angel Falls 3000 BCE – still standing Antelope Canyon 3000 BCE – still standing Arenal Volcano 3000 BCE – still standing Atacama Desert 3000 BCE – still standing Badlands 3000 BCE – still standing Bay of Fundy 3000 BCE – still standing Bora Bora 3000 BCE – still standing Bryce Canyon 3000 BCE – still standing Canadian Rockies 3000 BCE – still standing Carlsbad Caverns 3000 BCE – still standing Cenotes of Yucatán 3000 BCE – still standing Colca Canyon 3000 BCE – still standing Copper Canyon 3000 BCE – still standing Crater Lake 3000 BCE – still standing Denali 3000 BCE – still standing Everglades 3000 BCE – still standing Fernando de Noronha 3000 BCE – still standing Galápagos Islands 3000 BCE – still standing Giant Sequoia Groves 3000 BCE – still standing Grand Canyon 3000 BCE – still standing Great Blue Hole 3000 BCE – still standing Greenland Ice Sheet 3000 BCE – still standing Guanabara Bay 3000 BCE – still standing Hawaii Volcanoes 3000 BCE – still standing Iguazu Falls 3000 BCE – still standing Ilulissat Icefjord 3000 BCE – still standing Laguna Colorada 3000 BCE – still standing Lake Titicaca 3000 BCE – still standing Lençóis Maranhenses 3000 BCE – still standing Mammoth Cave 3000 BCE – still standing Monument Valley 3000 BCE – still standing Na Pali Coast 3000 BCE – still standing Nahanni National Park 3000 BCE – still standing Niagara Falls 3000 BCE – still standing Pantanal 3000 BCE – still standing Perito Moreno Glacier 3000 BCE – still standing Salar de Uyuni 3000 BCE – still standing Sugarloaf Mountain 3000 BCE – still standing Tepui Mountains 3000 BCE – still standing The Pitons 3000 BCE – still standing Tierra del Fuego 3000 BCE – still standing To Sua Ocean Trench 3000 BCE – still standing Torres del Paine 3000 BCE – still standing Valdés Peninsula 3000 BCE – still standing Yellowstone 3000 BCE – still standing Yosemite Valley 3000 BCE – still standing Zion Canyon 3000 BCE – still standing Isla del Sol 2000 BCE – still standing Ha'amonga 'a Maui 1200 BCE – still standing Pulemelei Mound 1100 BCE – still standing Tikal 600 BCE – still standing Crystal River Mounds 500 BCE – still standing Nazca Lines 500 BCE – still standing Great Pyramid of Cholula 300 BCE – still standing Copán 200 BCE – still standing Teotihuacan 200 BCE – still standing Tiwanaku 200 BCE – still standing Mitla 100 CE – still standing Palenque 226 CE – still standing Moʻokini Heiau 480 CE – still standing Chichen Itza 600 CE – still standing Mesa Verde 600 CE – still standing Xochicalco 650 CE – still standing Chan Chan 850 CE – still standing Quilmes Ruins 850 CE – still standing Etowah Indian Mounds 1000 CE – still standing Marae Taputapuātea 1000 CE – still standing Bighorn Medicine Wheel 1200 CE – still standing Cuzco 1200 CE – still standing Easter Island (Rapa Nui) 1200 CE – still standing Langi Royal Tombs of Mu'a 1200 CE – 1800 CE Hovenweep National Monument 1230 CE – still standing Marae Arahurahu 1400 CE – still standing Orongo 1400 CE – 1866 CE Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau 1400 CE – still standing Qorikancha 1438 CE – still standing Machu Picchu 1450 CE – still standing Catedral Primada de América 1512 CE – still standing Havana 1519 CE – still standing Veracruz 1519 CE – still standing Cathedral of San Juan Bautista 1521 CE – still standing Cartagena de Indias 1533 CE – still standing Olinda 1535 CE – still standing Buenos Aires 1536 CE – still standing Callao 1537 CE – still standing Recife 1537 CE – still standing Guayaquil 1538 CE – still standing Iglesia de Santo Tomás 1540 CE – still standing Valparaíso 1544 CE – still standing Potosí 1545 CE – 1800 CE Salvador da Bahia 1549 CE – still standing Acapulco 1565 CE – 1815 CE Rio de Janeiro 1565 CE – still standing Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral 1573 CE – 1813 CE Cartagena Cathedral 1577 CE – still standing Church of San Francisco 1586 CE – still standing Church of São Francisco 1587 CE – still standing Metropolitan Cathedral of Buenos Aires 1593 CE – still standing Portobelo 1597 CE – 1821 CE Iglesia de la Compañía de Jesús 1605 CE – still standing Quebec City 1608 CE – still standing Santa Fe 1610 CE – still standing New York 1626 CE – still standing Boston 1630 CE – still standing San Ignacio Miní 1632 CE – still standing Montreal 1642 CE – still standing Paramaribo 1650 CE – still standing Cathedral of Caracas 1665 CE – still standing Charleston 1670 CE – still standing Mission San Xavier del Bac 1692 CE – still standing Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe 1709 CE – still standing New Orleans 1718 CE – still standing Montevideo 1724 CE – still standing Cathedral of Havana 1748 CE – still standing Touro Synagogue 1763 CE – still standing St. Louis 1764 CE – still standing Igreja de São Francisco de Assis (Ouro Preto) 1766 CE – still standing Mission San Juan Capistrano 1776 CE – still standing Honolulu 1794 CE – still standing El Santuario de Chimayó 1816 CE – still standing Papetoai Temple 1822 CE – still standing Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal 1824 CE – still standing Papeete 1842 CE – still standing Apia 1850 CE – still standing Salt Lake Temple 1853 CE – still standing Washington National Cathedral 1907 CE – still standing Las Lajas Sanctuary 1916 CE – still standing Basilica of Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre 1926 CE – still standing Christ the Redeemer 1931 CE – still standing Parícutin Volcano 1943 CE – still standing Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá 1954 CE – still standing Basilica of Our Lady Aparecida 1955 CE – still standing Cathedral of Brasília 1958 CE – still standing

Oceania · 46

Wurdi Youang 9000 BCE – still standing Kuk Early Agricultural Site 8000 BCE – still standing Budj Bim Cultural Landscape 6600 BCE – still standing Aoraki / Mount Cook 3000 BCE – still standing Blue Mountains 3000 BCE – still standing Bungle Bungle Range 3000 BCE – still standing Cradle Mountain 3000 BCE – still standing Daintree Rainforest 3000 BCE – still standing Franz Josef Glacier 3000 BCE – still standing Gosses Bluff 3000 BCE – still standing Great Barrier Reef 3000 BCE – still standing Great Sea Reef of Fiji 3000 BCE – still standing Kakadu National Park 3000 BCE – still standing Karijini National Park 3000 BCE – still standing Komodo Island 3000 BCE – still standing Lord Howe Island 3000 BCE – still standing Milford Sound 3000 BCE – still standing Mount Augustus 3000 BCE – still standing Mount Bromo 3000 BCE – still standing Ningaloo Reef 3000 BCE – still standing Raja Ampat 3000 BCE – still standing Rotorua Geothermal Area 3000 BCE – still standing Shark Bay 3000 BCE – still standing Tongariro Alpine Crossing 3000 BCE – still standing Twelve Apostles 3000 BCE – still standing Uluru (Ayers Rock) 3000 BCE – still standing Waitomo Glowworm Caves 3000 BCE – still standing Borobudur 800 CE – still standing Prambanan 850 CE – still standing Rangitoto Island 1450 CE – still standing Kingston and Arthur's Vale Historic Area 1788 CE – 1855 CE Sydney 1788 CE – still standing Levuka 1820 CE – still standing Port Arthur Historic Site 1830 CE – 1877 CE Auckland 1840 CE – still standing Te Hau-ki-Tūranga 1842 CE – still standing Nouméa 1854 CE – still standing Old St Paul's 1866 CE – still standing St Mary's Cathedral 1868 CE – still standing Darwin 1869 CE – still standing Broome 1883 CE – still standing St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne 1891 CE – still standing Rabaul 1910 CE – still standing Church of the Good Shepherd, Lake Tekapo 1935 CE – still standing Te Whare Rūnanga (Waitangi) 1940 CE – still standing Cristo Rei of Dili 1996 CE – still standing

Elsewhere · 27

Altai Mountains 3000 BCE – still standing Altyn-Emel Singing Dunes 3000 BCE – still standing Aral Sea 3000 BCE – still standing Charyn Canyon 3000 BCE – still standing Kamchatka Peninsula 3000 BCE – still standing Kolsai Lakes 3000 BCE – still standing Lake Elton 3000 BCE – still standing Lake Issyk-Kul 3000 BCE – still standing Maldives Atolls 3000 BCE – still standing Pamir Mountains 3000 BCE – still standing Scoresby Sound 3000 BCE – still standing Sulaiman-Too Sacred Mountain 3000 BCE – still standing Svalbard 3000 BCE – still standing Ural Mountains 3000 BCE – still standing Valley of Geysers 3000 BCE – still standing Bukhara 500 BCE – still standing Samarkand 300 BCE – still standing Dunhuang 200 BCE – still standing Kashgar 200 BCE – still standing Mogao Caves 366 CE – still standing Nan Madol 1180 CE – still standing Shah-i-Zinda 1370 CE – still standing Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi 1389 CE – still standing Bibi-Khanym Mosque 1399 CE – still standing Kalyan Mosque 1514 CE – still standing Batavia (Jakarta) 1619 CE – still standing Hazrat Sultan Mosque 2012 CE – still standing