Places deeza Wants to Go

It's believed that these columns marked the end of the Via Appia.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.

This bustling Italian plaza is built on the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheater.

Where mountaineers were checked for lice before entering the city.

The memory of the ancient unit of measurement of local builders.

A massive engineering and hydraulic marvel dating back to the 3rd century BC

Medieval streets buried beneath a papal fortress now form an underground city you can walk through.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

This seaside Italian village doesn't just look Escher-esque, it actually inspired the mind-bending artist.

A monument to the moth that saved Australia from a cactus crisis.

This shrine to film's most iconic wasteland wanderer is located in the very outback where the movies were shot.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

A freedman baker’s lavish tomb has a relief showing various stages of Roman bread making.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

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

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

Legend has it that this bronze orb, which sat atop an ancient Egyptian obelisk, once held the ashes of Julius Caesar.

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

A statue representing a lost Roman profession that was vandalized for centuries.

Hidden away in an alleyway, this diminutive chapel is said to be the smallest church in Rome