It’s so hard to find a hotel with really good art in it anymore…if only the inn at Murecina, a little south of Pompeii, were an operating hotel/spa – as it was in A.D. 79 – instead of of an archaeological dig site, it would surely be booked year-round. Archaeologists first discovered the inn in 1959, and found several delicate frescoes that had been preserved when the explosion from Mount Vesuvius buried the building in ash. Since then the scientists have unearthed a reclining river god holding a cornucopia, a winged Minerva, and an image in miniature of an elegant maritime villa. – Archaeology