Places Ian Engweiler Wants to Go

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

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

A Nesting Doll of Churches.

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

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

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

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

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

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

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

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

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.

This beautiful park on the outskirts of Rome protects the ruins of two colossal ancient aqueducts.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.