Places Ryshili Wants to Go

This palace offers an 18th-century European take on Chinese design and architecture.

Every inch of this chapel is covered in craftsmanship from across the world.

Cave shrine on Monte Pellegrino.

This unique museum is home to over 5,000 puppets of all types.

A study of Fascist era Art Deco design in Italy.

This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Once the home of a renowned slaughterhouse, formerly working-class Testaccio is still the place to go for Roman offal dishes.

Inventive Sicilian specialties are executed with flair at this restaurant overseen by chef Ciccio Sultano.

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

Fried artichokes and other Roman–Jewish classics are executed with care at this no-frills cafeteria.

Since 1999, this gelateria founded by a string instrument maker has been turning out some of Rome’s best scoops.

For more than a century, this hole-in-the-wall near Termini Station has been serving what some say is the greatest porchetta sandwich.

Crispy, cheesy rice balls—the Roman answer to arancini—take center stage here.

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 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.

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

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

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.

A Nesting Doll of Churches.

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