Places tinolasvegas Wants to Go

This ghost-town bar has bullet holes and plenty of stories lurking within its walls.

An arresting temple full of mosaics as colorful as the politician they memorialize.

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

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

This hidden alley near the location of Rome's first theater was the site of a curious miracle.

The Pope’s secret escape route.

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

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

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

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

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

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

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

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.