This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

A hidden workshop for creating and restoring Papal mosaic masterpieces.

These spartan apartments are provided to clergymen visiting Vatican City.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

Believed to be the remains of the lost Temple of Minerva, this nymphaeum has been known by its misnomer to this day.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

An unremarkable wooden wheel built into the side of one of Rome's oldest hospitals was part of a policy to reduce infant exposure.

An alchemist's "magic door" stands in the middle of a Roman park.

A huge enchanting public park just outside the ancient walls of Rome.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

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

Rome's semi-secret peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

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

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Rome is now home to a stunning food museum and library.

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

Quirky outsider art transforms this garden shop into a little stone fantasyland.

A tiny, heartwarming piece of art hiding in plain sight.