Top North America Audio Guides - page 103

The Museo Vivo del Muralismo houses Diego Rivera's most ambitious mural cycle—over 1,000 square meters of revolutionary frescoes covering three floors. On this self-guided museum tour, you'll decode 140 panels that depict Mexico's labor traditions, ethnically diverse celebrations, and revolutionary struggles. Through Mexican writer Diana Coronado's research into Rivera's life, you'll uncover stories about censored poems, artistic rivalries, and how the painter transformed Renaissance techniques into distinctly Mexican visual narratives.

Philadelphia has been burying its dead for 300 years, and then forgetting where it put them. On this self-guided audio tour, you'll trace what happened to the city's lost graveyards, from potter's fields and epidemic victims to graves discovered under parking lots. The tour starts at Washington Square, one of William Penn's original five parks, which holds an estimated 4,500–7,500 bodies beneath its manicured lawn. From there, you'll wind through the streets of Old City, past the site of Benjamin Franklin's grave and the National Constitution Center, before heading north toward Franklin Square, where an 1830s church cemetery and it's tombstones were just buried under the dirt. Along the way, you'll discover how a clandestine 1950s archaeological dig under Washington Square – kept secret for political reasons – unearthed a soldier who may or may not have been American. The tour ends at the site of the First Baptist Burial Ground.

The Bloomingdale Trail was built on a former railway line that once served as the industrial backbone of Chicago's north side. On this self-guided audio tour through Bucktown and Wicker Park, you'll hear how the factories, immigrants, and artists who lined these tracks transformed two scrappy neighbourhoods into some of the city's most sought-after real estate. The tour starts at Walsh Park, the eastern terminus of The 606, named with a nod to Chicago's universal zip code prefix. Further along, you'll stop at the Damen Avenue Arts Plaza, where the Flat Iron Arts Building stands as a reminder of how artists were deliberately recruited to revive a struggling neighbourhood. The tour ends at Western Avenue, the longest continuous city street in the world at 24.5 miles, where the trail continues west into Logan Square and Humboldt Park.

St. Petersburg, Florida has been reinventing itself since a Russian immigrant named its streets after his homeland in 1889. On this self-guided audio tour, you'll trace the city's transformation from a quiet railroad town into a cultural destination. The tour starts at the St. Pete Pier, a 26-acre waterfront park that replaced the beloved Inverted Pyramid structure in 2020 after nearly two decades of public debate. From there, you'll follow the bay south past Benoist Centennial Plaza, where pilot Tony Jannus took off on January 1st, 1914 – carrying St. Petersburg's mayor on the world's first scheduled commercial airline flight. The route continues south along Beach Drive, past the Museum of Fine Arts and the St. Petersburg Yacht Club, before ending at the Salvador Dalí Museum, whose hurricane-engineered glass structure houses the largest collection of Dalí's work outside Spain.

Denver has reinvented itself more times than almost any other city in the American West. On this audio tour, you'll trace its path from a gold-rush outpost to the capital of the Rockies, and hear how it survived a railroad bypass, a silver crash, and mid-century bulldozers. You'll start at Coors Field, then pass the Dairy Block, a 1920s milk-bottling plant turned boutique hotel and food hall, and Wynkoop Brewing, the brewpub that revived this neighborhood in the 1980s. You'll stop at Union Station, whose facade was Denver's answer to a railroad that almost bypassed the city. You'll continue down the 16th Street Mall, then reach Larimer Square, Denver's oldest block, saved from demolition when Dana Crawford bought it after her car broke down there in the 1960s. You'll finish at the Federal Reserve Bank, where a free museum lets you watch currency processed and sends you home with shredded cash. In 60 minutes, Denver tells you its own story: boom, bust, and back again.

The Upper West Side is one of Manhattan's most layered and cinematic neighborhoods, shaped by Gilded Age ambition, immigrant ingenuity, and a long tradition of attracting creative misfits. On this self-guided audio tour, you'll trace how a sparsely populated stretch of farmland north of the city became home to some of New York's most storied buildings, boldest personalities, and most enduring cultural institutions. The tour starts at Columbus Circle, where a monument to Christopher Columbus marks the gateway to the Upper West Side. Along the way, you'll hear how the Metropolitan Opera was founded out of Gilded Age spite, why the Ansonia once kept live seals in its lobby fountain and a farm on its roof, and how the fictional gang wars of West Side Story were filmed among the rubble of a real neighbourhood being demolished to build Lincoln Center. The tour ends at Zabar's on Broadway, the legendary New York culinary institution that has been feeding the Upper West Side since 1934.

Mackinac Island's West Bluff is one of the Midwest's finest collections of Victorian architecture, built by industrialists escaping the heat and grime of post-Civil War cities. On this self-guided walking tour, you'll trace the stories behind eleven of these grand cottages, from the lumber barons and meat-packers who built them to the governors and immigrants who shaped their legacy. The tour starts at the Walter C. Newberry Cottage, the first home past the Grand Hotel. You'll walk along the bluff, passing Queen Anne turrets, wraparound verandas, and shingle-style facades, while hearing how wealthy families competed for leases on this National Park land starting at just $25 a year. Along the way, you'll discover how business partnerships, family dynasties, and architectural rivalries played out side by side on this single stretch of shoreline.

San Francisco's northern waterfront packs more history into a single walk than most cities manage in an entire district. This self-guided audio tour starts at the Palace of Fine Arts, a romantic rotunda. You'll stroll past the restored tidal marsh of Crissy Field, along rehabilitated coastal dunes, and through the grounds of the former Presidio military base, learning how this land passed from Spanish colonizers to Mexican authorities to the U.S. Army before becoming a national park. As you walk toward the Golden Gate Bridge, you'll hear stories of its construction during the Great Depression. The tour ends at Fort Point, the only brick fort on the West Coast, built in 1861 directly beneath where the bridge now stands. Its four levels of cannons, Civil War-era exhibits, and rooftop views of the bridge from below make it an extraordinary final stop. This walk rewards the curious – bring layers, as the wind picks up near the bridge.

The Petitcodiac River has shaped Moncton for at least 2,000 years, and its story is far stranger than most visitors expect. On this walking tour, you'll follow the river from Indigenous portage routes and Acadian rebellion to shipbuilding boomtowns and a causeway that nearly killed the river entirely. Starting at Bore Park, you'll learn how the Bay of Fundy pushes 100 billion tons of water twice daily into the Petitcodiac, sending a visible wave rolling upstream at 13 kilometres an hour. From there, walk riverbanks where Acadian rebels ambushed British soldiers, hear how Mi'kmaq travellers rode the tidal bore in birch bark canoes, and meet Molly Kool North America's first licensed female sea captain, who fought prejudice occasionally by brandishing a lumber log as a weapon. The tour ends back at Bore Park, where the last stand of the tragic Acadian rebel leader Beausoleil comes to a fitting but melancholy end.

Denver sits exactly one mile above sea level, and nearly everything about it reflects that outsized ambition. On this self-guided walking tour, you'll trace the city's arc from silver boom to civic grandeur, hearing stories of con men, socialites, heist masterminds, and the unlikely figures who shaped a metropolis at the edge of the wilderness. The tour starts at the Denver Pavilions on the 16th Street Mall and quickly leads you to the Brown Palace Hotel, the city's most storied address, where presidents, royalty, and the Beatles have all checked in - and at least one guest has never quite checked out. Along the way, you'll walk through Civic Center Park - a grand neoclassical showpiece built by a mayor obsessed with Paris - and past the U.S. Mint, where a brazen 1922 armed robbery left one man dead, $200,000 missing, and a frozen corpse in a nearby garage. The tour ends on the west steps of the State Capitol, where you'll look out over Civic Center Park and the Rocky Mountains.

Gordonsville, Virginia has been a crossroads of American life for more than two centuries. On this self-guided walking tour, you'll trace how every shift in transportation – from stagecoach to steam engine to automobile – left its mark on this small town. You'll also discover how the women excluded from its formal economy turned that exclusion into one of the most remarkable entrepreneurial stories in American history. The tour starts at the Gordonsville Visitor Center on Main Street, where you'll walk north past sixty years of railroad-era architecture – merchant homes with elaborate porches, four historic churches built within thirty years of each other, and a street whose survival owes everything to the town's gradual decline. Along the way, you'll visit the site of Gordon's Tavern, where a historical marker lists Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and Lafayette among those who stopped here.

Ketchikan has always drawn people chasing gold, fish, fortune, or a fresh start, and not everyone succeeded. This self-guided audio tour surfaces the scandals and tragedies cruise lines skip, and how Indigenous people, immigrants, and workers pushed back against exploitation. From the Rock statue, you'll pass Harding's 1923 Masonic cornerstone site, the courthouse behind two Supreme Court cases, and the firehouse, now Uncharted Distillery, linked to a fire chief's disguised return to set more fires. The route continues to Creek Street, the red-light district, for the truth about Dolly the Sporting Woman, and the New York Cafe, whose Japanese-American owner survived WWII internment thanks to neighbors, ending at East Street Pier overlooking Pennock Island, Tongass National Forest, and the cruise ships.

A single overheard conversation on Yaquina Bay in the 1860s sparked Oregon's oyster rush - and this self-guided driving tour retraces the boom-and-bust trail it set off, from the coast to the Willamette Valley. Starting in Newport, the route hugs Yaquina Bay's oyster farms, then winds through Toledo's Victorian streets past a paper mill's conveyor slinging timber waste across the river. It merges onto Highway 20 - the longest road in America - and detours through the ghost town of Chitwood, crossing a red 1800s covered bridge before cresting the Coast Range. Bellfountain Road passes raptor-topped fence posts, century-old oak trees, and fields producing 99% of the nation's hazelnut supply, before rolling on to Eugene. Perfect for road-trippers who want more than a drive-through of rural Oregon, this tour closes atop Skinner Butte, where Eugene's founder built his cabin in 1846. Install the VoiceMap app and enter the ticket code from your confirmation email to start driving.

On this self-guided audio tour of Toledo, you'll embark on a voyage of Toledo’s maritime history, rewarded by Maumee River views. Join Tedd Long, writer and curator of Holy Toledo History and soak up the Port of Toledo and its maritime history on this immersive walking tour along downtown Toledo’s riverfront. You’ll follow a winding path beside the Maumee River to just past Promenade Park, where you’ll see the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Bridge before heading back towards the starting point. Along the way, Tedd will tell you why the Warehouse District was centred on Swan Creek, and how canals helped to transform the Glass City into what it is today. You’ll also learn about the great history of the Maumee River and how, when the wind changed direction in 1894, it saved downtown Toledo. You’ll have the opportunity to explore modern Toledo, too, by visiting nearby attractions like Promenade Park and Imagination Station, or dining and drinking al fresco along Summit Street.

Discover picturesque Maumee, a vibrant river town rich with history, on this self-guided walking tour. Starting on East Wayne Street at the charming Federal Inn, you’ll explore historic homes and buildings that have shaped the town’s story. Stroll down to the Maumee River, where you’ll hear about early settlers, Native American villages, and the area’s colorful past. Along the way, pass by the Governor’s Inn, once a 1930s bordello now rumored to be haunted, and learn why St. Paul’s Episcopal Church had to remove its original bell tower. You’ll marvel at Saint Joseph Catholic Church, discover hidden gems like Clara J’s Tea Room, and wander Uptown Maumee’s shops, cafes, and candy stores, each stop revealing stories from Maumee’s past. From the riverbanks to the historic churches, this 60-minute walk immerses you in the unique heritage that makes Maumee a true gem of Ohio.

Independent travelers can enjoy the benefits of a sightseeing tour without the hassles of following a big group with this San Francisco self-guided audio tour. You walk around North Beach with a GPS-triggered smartphone app, and the audio plays automatically, so you can hear the neighborhood's stories while you stroll. Highlights include spotting the Transamerica Pyramid, visiting Jackson Square, walking along Broadway, and more.

On this self-guided walking tour, you’ll discover the Flatiron District's breathtaking landmarks and experience the 19th-century charm of Gramercy, a neighborhood that many tourists don’t get to see. The tour starts in front of the Flatiron Building, from where you‘ll amble around Madison Square Park. As you walk, you'll discover a few of the district‘s secret places, including Worth Monument (a gravesite on Broadway), a statue that kept losing its glasses, and a truncated skyscraper that was supposed to tower over the world. Your walk continues to Gramercy, an upscale neighborhood developed in the 1800s and is largely unchanged today. As you stroll around the perimeter of the exclusive Gramercy Park, you’ll pause in front of a few private clubs and residences to hear about the actors and politicians who lived here in the 1800s. The tour ends at Pete‘s Tavern, one of the oldest bars in the city that lived through Prohibition as a speakeasy.

Explore Prince Edward County’s rich ecology on a 75-minute Picton walking tour led by local ecologist Ewa. Discover how ancient limestone formations, glaciers, and waterways shaped the town’s landscape. Starting at Queen Elizabeth Park, enjoy views of Picton Bay, pass historic sites like Shire Hall and Marsh Creek, and follow Picton Harbour’s ecological evolution. Learn about Indigenous travel routes, native wildlife, marshland ecosystems, and green burials at Glenwood Cemetery. See how Delhi Park transformed from landfill to natural haven. This immersive nature walk reveals how Picton’s geology, biodiversity, and history are deeply connected—perfect for visitors seeking eco-tourism and local insight in Prince Edward County.

On this self-guided walking tour Mexico City's Roma Norte voiced by food journalist Raquel del Castillo you'll experience a blend of cuisine, culture, and architecture. You'll start at leafy Jardín Pushkin, stroll Alvaro Obregón’s Art Nouveau avenue, and stop at top culinary spots—Taquería Orinoco, Churrería el Moro, La Docena, Dosis, and Licorería Limantour. Sample tacos, churros, grilled fish, and café de olla while learning about food traditions, coffee culture, and renowned chefs like Elena Reygadas, Lalo García, and Mónica Patiño. Enjoy shopping, fresh air in two parks, and literary nods to the Beat Generation—Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Bukowski—who found inspiration in the city’s charm. Along the way, you’ll discover where locals eat, drink, and celebrate—getting a true taste of daily life in one of Mexico City’s most exciting neighborhoods.

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Discover Quebec at your own pace and transform every step into an unforgettable experience. This audio guide not only takes you through the most iconic places of Montreal, Quebec and Tadoussac, but connects you to its history, French-speaking culture and natural landscapes in a close and immersive way. Listen, walk and feel cities come alive as you explore without rush, without schedules and with complete freedom. Ideal for curious travelers looking for more than just seeing a destination: living it, understanding it and remembering it forever.

Explore Alaska with the freedom to decide your own pace and peace of mind knowing you won’t miss anything important. This audio guide is designed to accompany you on every road, transforming long journeys into stories, landscapes into experiences and stops at memorable moments. As you drive among glaciers, mountains and wilderness, a voice guides, explains and connects you to the territory, without schedules or groups. If you dream of living Alaska authentically, understanding what you see and enjoying the road as much as the destination, this audio guide is the perfect companion for your adventure.

It is a navigation APP with self-guided routes with audio guide along the West Coast Everything you need to know about the West Coast Points of interest linked to Google Maps geolocation Driving routes along the West Coast Walking routes in the National Parks Walking routes in the different cities Access to Web Panel to customize your own route Access to Panel Web as a repository of travel documents Audio guides with 6 languages available (Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, French, English.)