Places laurynhanley Wants to Go

The Italian revolutionary's legendary wife is portrayed on horseback waving a gun and holding her child in this memorial on the Janiculum.

This small church was constructed over the ruins of three temples dating to the Roman Republic.

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

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

Remnants of a 4th-century church with vivid medieval frescoes and ancient sarcophagi hide beneath this old basilica.

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.

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

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

This curious, round temple is the oldest still-standing marble building in Rome.

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

This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.

This large, circular tomb is the final resting place of the first emperor of Rome.

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

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

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

A Nesting Doll of Churches.

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

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

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

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.

This fresco-covered medieval monastery hangs from the side of a steep cliff.

This lonely minaret with an unusual decorative symbol is all that remains of a historic Ottoman mosque.