Rome, Italy
Pasticceria Boccione
In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.
Places The Sitch Wants to Go
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Rome, Italy
Metropoliz Museum of the Other and the Elsewhere
An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.
Rome, Italy
The Head of St. John the Baptist at San Silvestro in Capite
One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.
Rome, Italy
Parco degli Acquedotti
This beautiful park on the outskirts of Rome protects the ruins of two colossal ancient aqueducts.
Rome, Italy
The Protestant Cemetery
The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.
Rome, Italy
St. Valentine's Skull
The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.
Rome, Italy
Santa Maria dell'Orazione e Morte
At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.
Rome, Italy
The Mithraeum at Circus Maximus
The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.
Rome, Italy
The Aventine Keyhole
Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.
London, England
Ye Olde Mitre
Down a pint of ale where the Bishop of Ely's servants slept in 1546.
London, England
Dirty Dick's
This pub boasts a curious history and may have inspired a Dickens character.
London, England
Topolski's 'Memoir of the Century'
Tucked inside a South Bank bar is an epic expressionist chronicle of the 20th century.
London, England
Parliamentary Division Bells
A network of bells in the pubs and restaurants around Westminster alerts politicians when it's time to cast their votes.
London, England
Sir John Franklin Expedition Memorial
A tribute to the intrepid explorer and his crew who perished in terrible conditions on an ill-fated expedition to the Arctic.
London, England
The Royal Philatelic Collection
The British monarchy's stamp collection is one of the most impressive in all of Europe revealing generations of royal nerdery.
London, England
'Potteries and Piggeries' Bottle Kiln
A relic from one of London's worst 19th-century slums.
London, England
Fitzroy House
This historic London residence was once the womb of Scientology.
London, England
Severndroog Castle
A monolithic monument in Greater London.
London, England
St. Leonard Church of Shoreditch
Historic church where a number of Shakespeare's actors are buried.
London, England
Dirac Equation
The "beautiful" equation predicting the movement of all electromagnetic particles is engraved in front of Newton's tomb.
London, England
St Augustine's Tower
This medieval church tower has maintained its clockworks since the 16th century.
London, England
Angela Flanders Perfumer
A boutique perfumery fashioned to look like a Victorian-era shop.
London, England
River Tyburn Conduit
A plaque marks the underground site of one of London's "lost rivers."
London, England
'The Ambassadors'
A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.
