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

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

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

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

An eccentric artist's abode in this small Italian town has been transformed into a surreal temple of mosaic madness.

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

Roman-era ships unearthed...

Charles Dickens was not a fan of the ghastly wall dressings in this 6th century church.

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

St. Francesca Romana, patron saint of drivers, resides in the church she founded.

This historic recreationist school churns out warriors that may very well have had a fighting chance in Rome's pits of the day.

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

One man's quest to fix his toilet unearthed over 5,000 artifacts spanning more than 2,000 years of history.

An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.

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

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

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

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

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

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