A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

Contains some of the world's more disturbing wax anatomical models.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

This subterranean shrine beneath a bike rental store celebrates the iconic Italian scooter.

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

A huge enchanting public park just outside the ancient walls of Rome.

This park on the outskirts of Rome boasts two ancient Roman aqueducts and a medieval tower.

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

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

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

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.

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

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

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

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

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

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

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.

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

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

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

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.