Places hornbackelijah Wants to Go

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

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

Inside this building is another country within Rome, a sovereign entity without a physical territory.

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

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

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

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

The remains of this 2nd-century Roman temple are incorporated into a modern building.

For more than a century, this hole-in-the-wall near Termini Station has been serving what some say is the greatest porchetta sandwich.

Plaques on its facade commemorate the Tiber's most destructive deluges.

This small Roman arch was transformed into a dwelling by the founder of the Trinitarian Order.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

A burial vault located under Tiber Island in the middle of the Italian capital.

A fortified medieval basilica on the Caelian Hill preserves extraordinary frescoes and one of Rome's most beautiful hidden cloisters.

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

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

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

A forgotten "city of water" underneath the famous Trevi district.

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

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

This small church was constructed over the ruins of three temples dating to the Roman Republic.

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

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