Yaquina Bay Lighthouse was abandoned after only three years of operation. Newport's residents believe it’s haunted. @NarrativeRoads' new VoiceMap driving tour follows the Oregon coast from Newport to Lincoln City. 🔗 voicemap.me/newport

Imagine waking up to find British soldiers had taken your city overnight. It happened in Buenos Aires. @walkbsas’s San Telmo tour tells how locals fought back from rooftops, and shows you the cannonball marks still on the Basilica. voicemap.me/santelmo #BuenosAires

No memorial marks what happened in this alley. This walking tour of Chicago's Loop and Theater District passes right by the alley and reveals the deadly tragedy that led to 600 deaths. Swipe to find out the full story. 🎧 🔗 voicemap.me/chicago

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "It was so much nicer than being in a big group, especially in the narrow streets." In Toledo's narrow streets, this reviewer could walk quietly, stop whenever they wanted, and take the city at their own pace. And they still felt like a local was showing them around.

In 2022, Russian vehicles rolled towards Kyiv expecting to take the city within days. Today their wrecked vehicles stand in St Michael's Square, covered in handwritten messages from passersby. Save this for your Kyiv trip. 🔗 voicemap.me/kyiv

One particularly active VoiceMapper has spent the equivalent of 10 days taking tours across 77 destinations and 20 countries. Version 16 of the app, which we’ve just released, was built with VoiceMappers like her in mind. #VoiceMap #AudioTour #SelfGuidedTravel #TravelApp

Old Burial Hill in Marblehead holds more bodies than headstones. Lovecraft based a graveyard on it, and Disney filmed Hocus Pocus here. Historian Erik Smith (@salemvoicetours) walks you through both stories. Save it for Halloween. voicemap.me/burialhill #Halloween #Marblehead

This statue was at the centre of Rome's gossip. Today, nobody recalls why it's even there. @contexttravel's Hidden Gems of Ancient Rome tour points it out and explains how it and the five other statues named Rome’s “Talking Statues” came to be. 🔗 voicemap.me/hiddenrome

Girona says a swarm of flies drove off a French army in the 13th century. The truth was probably mosquitoes. Girona-born guide Miquel Roger narrates VoiceMap's new walking tour of the Old Town. 🔗 voicemap.me/girona #GironaWalk #AudioTour #VoiceMap #Catalonia

One snuffed-out candle hints the Arnolfini Portrait isn't a wedding painting at all. 🕯️ James Payne of @greatartexplained reveals this, an impossibly large mirror and more on his National Gallery audio tour. 🎧 voicemap.me/artexplained #ArtHistory #NationalGallery

A front door on Bath's Royal Crescent landed its owner in court. They were sued over the paint colour. This Family-Friendly Bath's Facts and Fables tour points it out on the city's most photographed street. Swipe to find out why. 🎧 🔗 voicemap.me/bath

"Just about as good as having her walk with us."⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ That's the whole idea behind VoiceMap. GPS-triggered narration starts exactly when you reach each stop, so it feels like your guide is right there beside you. No screen to check, no one to keep up with. Download the app.

A synagogue in Batumi was built after its Jewish community made one promise to the Tsar: they'd pray for a son. Vlad Nameste's new VoiceMap tour walks you through six empires' worth of history, packed into a few streets. 🔗 voicemap.me/batumi #Batumi #Georgia #AudioTour

This concrete blockhouse behind Phu Cam Cathedral isn't decoration. It's what's left of the bloodiest month in Hue's history. @joshuazukas' VoiceMap tour traces hidden Hue from a cruel dynasty to the Tet Offensive. voicemap.me/hue #HueVietnam #VietnamTravel

This tea shop on Sullivan Street looks like any other place to stock up on your favourite tea leaves. In the 1980s, it was something very different. TellBetter's Greenwich Village tour walks straight past it. Swipe to find out why. 🎧 🔗 voicemap.me/stonewall

In 1934, a thief stole two panels cut from one of the greatest paintings in Western art. One came back a few weeks later; the other has never been found. This new VoiceMap tour in Ghent retraces the whole case. 🔗 voicemap.me/vaneyck #Ghent #GhentBelgium #TrueCrime

A Victorian bridge on Hampstead Heath was built for houses that never existed. @fathers_walks_london, local guidebook author, narrates VoiceMap's new Heath tour. Save this for your walk, the link below. 🔗 voicemap.me/heathtour #HampsteadHeath #London #AudioTour #VoiceMap

This carved wooden gate in Kathmandu's Thamel looks like any other doorway on a busy street. It's actually older than the entire neighbourhood built up around it. But Rabi Thapa's Old Kathmandu tour walks straight past it. Swipe to find out why. 🔗 voicemap.me/oldkathmandu

"Tours are prohibited in the red light district, so this was an easy 'go around'." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ On @HistoryOfNL' Red Light District tour, there’s no group to keep up with – just you, the audio, and Amsterdam's most misunderstood neighbourhood. 🔗 voicemap.me/redlight

The only archaeological proof that Pontius Pilate really existed wasn't found in Jerusalem. It turned up in Caesarea's Roman theatre, carved into a stone slab archaeologists nearly overlooked. 🔗 voicemap.me/caesarea #CaesareaWalk #AudioTour #VoiceMap #RomanHistory