Rome, Italy
Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatory
A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.
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Rome, Italy
Casina delle Civette
A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.
Rome, Italy
The Catacombs of San Sebastian
Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.
Rome, Italy
Natural Monument of Galeria Antica
An Italian ghost town that fought obscurity, until a mysterious illness brought it to its knees.
Rome, Italy
The Aventine Keyhole
Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.
Rome, Italy
Hendrik Christian Andersen House Museum
The former home of an Italian artist is now a shrine to his ambitious works.
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 Wax-Encased Remains of Blessed Anna Maria Taigi
The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.
Rome, Italy
Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls
One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.
Rome, Italy
Saint Catherine Russian Orthodox Church
The first Russian Orthodox church in the Catholic city of Rome in almost a thousand years.
Rome, Italy
The Sweating Cenotaph at the Archbasilica San Giovanni in Laterano
Stone memorial that's said to predict the death of the pope and the site of the Cadaver Synod.
Rome, Italy
The Martyr Murals at Santo Stefano Rotondo
Charles Dickens was not a fan of the ghastly wall dressings in this 6th century church.
Rome, Italy
Rome's Gladiator School
This historic recreationist school churns out warriors that may very well have had a fighting chance in Rome's pits of the day.
Rome, Italy
Centrale Montemartini
Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.
Rome, Italy
Saint Victoria's Incorruptible Body
The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.
Rome, Italy
Cloaca Maxima
The "Great Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.
Rome, Italy
CinecittÃ
The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.
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Rome, Italy
Museo Nazionale delle Paste Alimentari
This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.
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Veii
Rome's ancient Etruscan rival, now a park full of ruins.
Rome, Italy
Monte Testaccio
This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.
Rome, Italy
Tempietto at San Pietro in Montorio
More sculpture than building, this architecturally significant temple was built on the spot of Saint Peter's crucifixion.
Rome, Italy
Keats-Shelley Memorial House
Museum dedicated to literary greats of the Romantic Period is also the home in which Keats met his untimely end.
Rome, Italy
Ospedale delle Bambole (Doll Hospital)
A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.
Rome, Italy
Basilica di San Clemente
A Nesting Doll of Churches.
