Places kebbers Wants to Go

The ruins of an abbey believed to have been founded by Charlemagne in the 9th century.

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

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

Charles Dickens was not a fan of the ghastly wall dressings in this 6th century church.

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

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

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

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

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

An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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