Places Lillive Wants to Go

This room of wonder is full of relics, from knights in armor to rare works of art.

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

An 18th-century post box used to alert the church of sick and ailing foreign pilgrims.

This hermitage celebrates the legend of Emperor Constantine's healing from leprosy.

An ancient Egyptian obelisk is now used to commemorate fallen Italian soldiers.

A small but very fascinating fountain in the center of Rome with four books and a deer carved.

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

A deep mark on the remains of a Roman temple, believed to be left by a legendary warrior.

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

An unremarkable wooden wheel built into the side of one of Rome's oldest hospitals was part of a policy to reduce infant exposure.

This unassuming bridge is most likely one of Michelangelo's unfinished masterworks.

A colossal aqueduct from the second century B.C., deeply hidden in a gorge on the outskirts of Rome.

A rare example of a medieval house in Rome adorned with a melancholic inscription.

Believed to be the remains of the lost Temple of Minerva, this nymphaeum has been known by its misnomer to this day.

According to local folklore, this Roman sepulcher was once a throne for the Devil.

This Italian stadium makes liberal use of fascist statuary to evoke classical sporting arenas.

This ancient Roman arch misled treasure hunters for centuries.

One of Rome's most picturesque and original bridges was also a popular choice for Grand Tour artists.

This statue is the only female representation of Rome's "talking statues."

A secret hatch containing two parchments was discovered in this statue over 40 years after its installation.

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

A statue representing a lost Roman profession that was vandalized for centuries.

Legend has it that this bronze orb, which sat atop an ancient Egyptian obelisk, once held the ashes of Julius Caesar.

An abandoned 17th-century baroque hunting lodge with a wonderfully strange architectural plan.