Places thatdude Wants to Go

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

The remains of the left arm of the levitating philosopher-saint are kept in a 13th-century Neapolitan basilica.

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Ever hear of the Milazzo Cage?

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

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

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

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

A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.

Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.

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

The Pope’s secret escape route.

The "Great Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

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