Places melodml Wants to Go

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

One of São Paulo's tight urban intersections has become a haven for graffiti artists ever since a single Batman started the trend.

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

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

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

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

This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

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

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

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

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.