En Route to the Sistine Chapel

It's a big place, the Vatican Museums. Many buildings, thousands of rooms, millions of treasures. Just making a bee-line from the entrance to the Sistine Chapel takes you past a seeming mile of objects that would be prize possessions for most of the world's museums.

One of many old buildings on the beautiful grounds

Another Artemis from Ephesus

A beautiful and beautifully-preserved sarcophagus with busts and more

Mosaic still-life

Another Socrates

In the tapestry hall

Entering the hall of maps, giant wall-sized maps of 17th century Italy; the ceiling 
ornamentation isn't bad, either

Italia antiqua

Campagnia and the Bay of Naples

Venice

Papal parking

"Passport, please; wait a moment...you seem to have exceeded your 90-day 
Schengen Agreement limit; I'm afraid you cannot pass!"