This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

This hidden alley near the location of Rome's first theater was the site of a curious miracle.

A 15th-century monumental Latin inscription on this house celebrates Lorenzo Manilio's love for Rome.

In the early Roman Empire, people deemed traitors and criminals were tossed to their deaths from this rock.

This statue is the only female representation of Rome's "talking statues."

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

The first Russian Orthodox church in the Catholic city of Rome in almost a thousand years.

This Italian stadium makes liberal use of fascist statuary to evoke classical sporting arenas.

An unremarkable wooden wheel built into the side of one of Rome's oldest hospitals was part of a policy to reduce infant exposure.

The charred, dead skeleton of an oak tree is said to have consoled a dying 16th-century Italian poet.

The Italian revolutionary's legendary wife is portrayed on horseback waving a gun and holding her child in this memorial on the Janiculum.

Among the busts of heroes of the Roman Republic of 1849, there is also a statue of a boy and his dog.

More sculpture than building, this architecturally significant temple was built on the spot of Saint Peter's crucifixion.

A small cell adjacent to this church was once the bedroom for a renowned saint.

This ancient market is often referred to as the oldest shopping mall in the world.

The "Great Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

The only remaining arch of the oldest stone bridge in Rome stands in the middle of the Tiber.

A rare example of a medieval house in Rome adorned with a melancholic inscription.

This small, ancient Roman temple was once a church dedicated to the patron saint of penitents.

This curious, round temple is the oldest still-standing marble building in Rome.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.