Places stephlt25 Wants to Go

One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

Stone memorial that's said to predict the death of the pope and the site of the Cadaver Synod.

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

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

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

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

An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

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

A massive marble foot is tucked away in a small alley near the Pantheon.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

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

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

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

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

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

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

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

An Englishman loses his scalp to a Cheyenne warrior and lives to donate it to a library.