Places Velowulf Wants to Go

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.

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

An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.

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

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

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

An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.

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

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

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

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

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

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

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

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

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

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

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

A mysterious chasm in the heart of the ancient Roman Forum, the Lacus Curtius was once believed to be a gateway to hell.

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

This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

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