Places clpartin Wants to Go

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.

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

This historic recreationist school churns out warriors that may very well have had a fighting chance in Rome's pits of the day.

Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.

The best preserved Paleochristian basilica in Rome hides a number of oddities and secrets.

Roman-era ships unearthed...

A huge enchanting public park just outside the ancient walls of Rome.

One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

Rome's ancient Etruscan rival, now a park full of ruins.

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

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

The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.

This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.

A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.

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

An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.

An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.

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

This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.

This Roman arch marks the location of an ancient gate at one of the Seven Hills of Rome.

One of seven Jewish catacombs in Rome and one of only two open to the public.

The Pope’s secret escape route.