Vatican City

Vatican City

: The stonewall “border” separating Rome and Vatican City

: Statue of a pine cone placed in front of that half-dome?

: Distant view of the Golden Globe. The GG consists of two spheres – one inside another. The outer spins around while the internal one remains immobilized. This symbolizes how the church remains the immovable center of our world…in their very humble opinion.

: Pissin’ out his motherfuckin’ mouf

: Hercules and Co.

: Laocoon and His Sons – bunch of dudes with little steroid-shrunken dicks

: Sexy ceiling

: I don’t know what the sculptor was thinking giving a bad ass dude like Hercules such a tiny, pinky-sized pork sword – “so schmall”

: Pope’s party pad

: Gettin’ Egyptian with it

: More ceiling art

: Another Egyptian bro

: Pope convention

: One of the few remaining statues with eyes made of precious jewels that hadn’t been stolen by random jag-offs over the years.

: A roped-off mosaic on the floor made of lapis lazuli – a rare old stone worth way more than all the shit around it.

: This ceiling had been painted in a manner that gave off the impression it’d been sculpted.

: The Map Room. Possibly the sweetest room I’ve ever been in.

: Map Room ceiling

: Must’ve been a football field worth of ceiling art in the Map Room.

: The final stretch

: Orgy

: Lovely

: Art overdose

: Green-faced Goblin

: Throwin’ down the papal shocker

: All this art is fabulous, but where the bitches at?

: Beard-O

: The Vatican Obelisk in all its glory

: St. Peter’s Basilica

: St. Peter’s interior. It’s a monster.

: Cavernous

: Best dome I ever got

: Bernini’s baldacchino – a 98 ft. tall piece of bronze that stands above the altar.

: Bernini’s “Throne of St. Peter”

: When filling out an application while in Vatican City, I found out that sodomy is a prerequisite for becoming a Swiss Guard.

: View of the Vatican Obelisk from atop the dome of St. Peter’s

: The pope’s stomping grounds

: Vatican City coat of arms

: One last shot of the Vatican Obelisk for good measure