Self-guided audio experiences that are actually entertaining. Great stories, real places, and a game at the end to see if you were paying attention.
Start FreeThe interesting stuff — scandals, secrets, surprises. Not boring facts.
Go when you want. Stop for coffee. No group to keep up with.
Some facts are made up. At the end, guess which ones.
Curious? Just ask. We'll answer.
Each tour covers different ground and tells different stories. Pick the one that sounds most interesting — or do them all.
Eight stops through Greenwich Village — where twenty thousand bodies lie under a dog park, a nineteen-year-old kid rewrote American music in a horse stable, and a drag queen kicked a cop and changed the world. Walk the crooked streets the grid forgot and figure out which stories are real.
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Every blade of grass was faked, and there are twenty thousand bodies underneath it. Walk south-to-north through eight of the most photographed spots in Central Park and discover the obsessive who designed it, the community that was erased to build it, and the loaded cannon that sat on display for a hundred and thirty years before anyone checked.
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Midtown
The buildings that lied to your face. Walk two and a half miles from the Flatiron to the Waldorf and discover the unhinged decisions behind New York's most iconic stretch of real estate — a secret spire raised in ninety minutes, a librarian who burned her own diaries, and a hotel built entirely out of spite.
Architecture Tour
See this experienceEvery tour covers different landmarks. Here's what you'll learn about on each one.
8 stories • 2h
Bedford Street.
You're standing in a triangle.
Look at that building.
You're standing on the most important block in American counterculture, and it looks like a pizza place next to a souvenir shop.
See this little curved alley? Minetta Lane.
That's the Stonewall Inn.
+ 2 more stories on this tour
8 stories • 2h
Belvedere Castle looks like a medieval fortress, but it was built in 1869 and has never defended anything except bird watchers.
Bethesda Terrace.
Bow Bridge.
So.
Look around.
Sheep Meadow.
+ 2 more stories on this tour
8 stories • 2h 30m
Bryant Park.
This 'terminal' isn't just a train station - it has a secret platform, a tennis court on the roof, and a hidden bar that was speakeasy during Prohibition.
Grand Central Terminal.
The Chrysler Building.
The Flatiron Building.
The Morgan Library.
+ 2 more stories on this tour
8 stories • 1h 30m
This bridge took 14 years to build and claimed at least 27 lives - including the original architect. It's been sold to gullible tourists more times than we can count.
You've crossed.
If you're on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade — or anywhere along Columbia Heights — turn around.
Look at that entrance.
Stop.
You should be looking at a glass box on the waterfront.
+ 2 more stories on this tour
3 stories • 45 min
Belvedere Castle looks like a medieval fortress, but it was built in 1869 and has never defended anything except bird watchers.
Bow Bridge, one of the most romantic spots in the park, and scene of at least 47 movie proposals.
You are now entering The Ramble, 36 acres of wild forest where anything can happen.
An 843-acre rectangle of nature that took 20 years and 20,000 workers to make look 'natural.' They moved more earth than digging the Panama Canal.
Built during the Great Depression as a flex, this building was so empty for years that New Yorkers called it the 'Empty State Building.' Now it's just empty of affordable rent.
She's been standing there since 1886, but did you know she was almost sent to Egypt? And that her original color was brown, not green? The French really knew how to regift.
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