Catedral de San Juan Bautista

Built in 1521 on the Calle del Cristo in Old San Juan, destroyed by a storm, rebuilt in 1529, and still standing — the Catedral de San Juan Bautista holds the tomb of Juan Ponce de León and serves as the national shrine to Our Lady of Divine Providence, patron of Puerto Rico. Pope Paul VI named it a minor basilica on January 25, 1978, at the request of Cardinal Luis Aponte Martínez. The brief says it's the second-oldest existing cathedral in the Americas. That's the kind of fact a building earns.