Places kcleland67 Wants to Go

A Nesting Doll of Churches.

One of seven Jewish catacombs in Rome and one of only two open to the public.

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

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

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

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

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

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

A rather vulgar example of the transition from Latin to the Italian vernacular.

Romans decided this 16th-century "talking statue" was so ugly, they named it after a primate.

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

Its interior is adorned with some of the best examples of early Christian mosaics.

Rome's first modern graffito is all that is left of a peaceful protest from the 1970s.

A magnificent waterfall is also home to the remains of a Roman hydraulic engineering system.

Roman politician Herodes Atticus built this nymphaeum to honor his wife, whom he may have murdered.

In the early Roman Empire, people deemed traitors and criminals were tossed to their deaths from this rock.

A monumental fountain in Rome features a large statue of Moses that has been criticized for centuries.

This ancient market is often referred to as the oldest shopping mall in the world.

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

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

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

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

An oasis of beauty, tranquility and botanical research in the middle of Rome.