Places shiri16 Wants to Go

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

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

An abandoned 17th-century baroque hunting lodge with a wonderfully strange architectural plan.

An 18th century fountain and two columns are all that remains of Rome's forgotten river harbor.

Roman politician Herodes Atticus built this nymphaeum to honor his wife, whom he may have murdered.

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

Also known as the Square Colosseum, this building is a prime example of fascist-era rationalist architecture.

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

This gallery commissioned by Cardinal Spada is known for its magnificent optical illusion.

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

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.

A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.

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

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

A huge enchanting public park just outside the ancient walls of Rome.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

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

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

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

This Roman arch marks the location of an ancient gate at one of the Seven Hills of Rome.

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

This beautiful park on the outskirts of Rome protects the ruins of two colossal ancient aqueducts.

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.