Oldest tourist sites in the world that shouldn't exist, but they do
Published on: Dec. 8, 2025, 6 p.m. | Source: Times of India
When you look at the world’s oldest tourist sites, their survival often feels improbable. Many of these places were built thousands of years before modern tools, construction science, or digital preservation techniques existed. They stood through conquests, natural calamities, climate shifts, looting, and human negligence. Some were even abandoned for centuries. Logically, they should have disappeared, buried by sand, eroded by rain, or destroyed by war. Yet they continue to stand, allowing visitors to witness the earliest chapters of human civilisation.
