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

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

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

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

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.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

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

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.