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Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

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

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

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

The Pope’s secret escape route.

A Nesting Doll of Churches.

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

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

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

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

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

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

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

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

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

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

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

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

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

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

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

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

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.