Among the busts of heroes of the Roman Republic of 1849, there is also a statue of a boy and his dog.

The Italian revolutionary's legendary wife is portrayed on horseback waving a gun and holding her child in this memorial on the Janiculum.

A small cell adjacent to this church was once the bedroom for a renowned saint.

This statue is the only female representation of Rome's "talking statues."

According to local folklore, this Roman sepulcher was once a throne for the Devil.

An abandoned 17th-century baroque hunting lodge with a wonderfully strange architectural plan.

Known for centuries as the famous Roman emperor's burial place, this monument is actually something else.

This basilica is dedicated to two saints, one of which is known more for his famous quote.

A fortified medieval basilica on the Caelian Hill preserves extraordinary frescoes and one of Rome's most beautiful hidden cloisters.

Roman politician Herodes Atticus built this nymphaeum to honor his wife, whom he may have murdered.

A massive marble foot is tucked away in a small alley near the Pantheon.

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

Romans decided this 16th-century "talking statue" was so ugly, they named it after a primate.

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

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

Its interior is adorned with some of the best examples of early Christian mosaics.

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

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

In the early Roman Empire, people deemed traitors and criminals were tossed to their deaths from this rock.

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

The best preserved Paleochristian basilica in Rome hides a number of oddities and secrets.

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

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.