Rome is a big, bustling, polluted metropolis, which for some reason everyone and their Mom wants to or already has visited. It’s a beautiful city, rich with culture, history, and good food. While there’s no end of sites to see, it is also terribly overrated. Try getting off the beaten track and mixing in with the locals or you will end up following the same tourists all over the city, seeing the same tired old sites. The few art museums, which for the most part were completely void of tourists, made a far greater impression on me than sitting at the Fontain di Trevi or shuffling around the dust of the old Forum.