Places We All Pod Down Here Wants to Go

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

The only remaining arch of the oldest stone bridge in Rome stands in the middle of the Tiber.

This small, ancient Roman temple was once a church dedicated to the patron saint of penitents.

The ruins of an abbey believed to have been founded by Charlemagne in the 9th century.

The ruins of the largest gladiatorial school in Rome are largely hidden under modern streets.

A burial vault located under Tiber Island in the middle of the Italian capital.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

This hydrochronometer was invented by a Dominican monk and is a prime feature in this garden.

This subterranean shrine beneath a bike rental store celebrates the iconic Italian scooter.

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

This curious, round temple is the oldest still-standing marble building in Rome.

Rome's ancient Etruscan rival, now a park full of ruins.

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

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

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

A magnificent waterfall is also home to the remains of a Roman hydraulic engineering system.

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

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

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

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

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

This large, circular tomb is the final resting place of the first emperor of Rome.

One of seven Jewish catacombs in Rome and one of only two open to the public.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.