Seriously 2000s??? The Parisians built Notre Dame almost 1,000 years ago and a) it's still standing and b) it's looking as gorgeous as ever. I don't even know how you go about constructing something like this without motors and electricity, let alone designing something so grand with complete knowledge that it will be built, more or less, by hand.

People always want to know where all the cowboys went, but personally, I'm much more interested in the architects' whereabouts.