Places Michael Woodruff Wants to Go

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

Italian horror legend Dario Argento’s own shop hides a sinister museum-dungeon in the basement.

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

This ancient Roman arch misled treasure hunters for centuries.

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

Romans decided this 16th-century "talking statue" was so ugly, they named it after a primate.

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

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

St. Francesca Romana, patron saint of drivers, resides in the church she founded.

Charles Dickens was not a fan of the ghastly wall dressings in this 6th century church.

This ancient trail climbs the mountain where a Latin League cult worshipped Jupiter, its main deity.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

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

Rome's ancient Etruscan rival, now a park full of ruins.

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

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

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

A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.

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

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

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.

Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.

This ancient market is often referred to as the oldest shopping mall in the world.