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

The former home of an Italian artist is now a shrine to his ambitious works.

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

This Italian stadium makes liberal use of fascist statuary to evoke classical sporting arenas.

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

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.

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

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

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

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

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

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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