World's Oldest

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

The oldest pub in Ireland may also be the oldest surviving bar in the entire world.

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

Possibly the oldest living thing in Europe, more likely a pagan survivor.

One of the oldest trees in Britain may have been witness to some of the country's formative moments.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

This series of Armenian caves held the oldest brain, shoe, and winery in the world.

One of the oldest amusement rides in existence was a huge disappointment to its creator.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.

19th century museum with an eclectic mix of curiosities, from Egyptian artifacts to items on archery history to the skull of the world's oldest horse.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.