Pompeii - Street of Tombs 
Outside the gate lies a suburban district of which only the main street has been excavated. This Street of Tombs is, from the scenic point of view, the most attractive part of Pompeii. Lined with imposing monuments to distinguished citizens, it ranks with the Via Appia outside Rome as the most impressive surviving example of the Roman practice of erecting tombs along public roads.
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Villa of the Mysteries
200m/220yd northwest of the Villa of Diomedes, outside the main excavation area, is the magnificent Villa of the Mysteries (Villa dei Misteri; reached from the main entrance to the excavations on a road which runs past the station (500m/550yd) and continues for another 700m/770yd), with the finest surviving ancient wall paintings, preserved in all the brilliance of their original coloring. The most remarkable of these is a frieze 17m/19yd long in the large triclinium with almost life-size figures, dating from the pre-Augustan period (probably based on models of the third century B.C.), which depicts scenes from the Dionysiac mysteries.
