Places nikisb Wants to Go

Next to the Leaning Tower of Pisa is a cemetery home to ancient sarcophagi and disturbing murals.

Before it was buried by volcanic ash, this fast-food restaurant fed the hungry hordes of ancient Rome.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

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

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

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

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

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

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

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

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

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

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

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

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

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

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

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

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.