Places Lillive Wants to Go

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

This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.

A mysterious chasm in the heart of the ancient Roman Forum, the Lacus Curtius was once believed to be a gateway to hell.

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

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

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

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

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

A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.

The ruins of the largest gladiatorial school in Rome are largely hidden under modern streets.

This historic recreationist school churns out warriors that may very well have had a fighting chance in Rome's pits of the day.

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

This is the oldest Roman-made bridge in the city still existing in its original state.

This hydrochronometer was invented by a Dominican monk and is a prime feature in this garden.

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

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

A massive marble foot is tucked away in a small alley near the Pantheon.

These hut foundations are believed to be the residence of Romulus, founder of Rome.

Rome is now home to a stunning food museum and library.

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

The only remaining arch of the oldest stone bridge in Rome stands in the middle of the Tiber.

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

This small, ancient Roman temple was once a church dedicated to the patron saint of penitents.