Places eternalmd31 Wants to Go

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

These spartan apartments are provided to clergymen visiting Vatican City.

The Vatican's secret porn-festooned bathroom was painted in erotic murals by one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance.

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

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

The first statue to be added to Saint Peter's Square in over 350 years is an ode to migrants and refugees around the world.

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

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

See one of the earliest depictions of a Christian ceremony – with a woman at the center!

When this 400-year-old fountain fell into disrepair, officials covered the mess up with what looks like a giant soup tureen.

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

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

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

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

This unassuming bridge is most likely one of Michelangelo's unfinished masterworks.

This gallery commissioned by Cardinal Spada is known for its magnificent optical illusion.

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.

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

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

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

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

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

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