City skyline at dusk
Audio Walking Tours

The city is the show.
Just press play.

Self-guided audio tours with stories worth retelling, a narrator worth quoting, and a game that keeps everyone guessing.

Same city. Very different tour.

Most audio tours read like a textbook. Ours read like the best conversation you've ever overheard.

A typical audio tour

"The Willis Tower, formerly known as the Sears Tower, was completed in 1973. At 1,450 feet, it held the record as the world's tallest building for 25 years. The building was designed by the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and contains 104 elevators."

A Bad Historian tour

"The Willis Tower — and if you call it that to a local, they will correct you — was the world's tallest building for 25 years. That's 25 years of pure, uninterrupted bragging, which in Chicago is basically the entire point of building anything."

No group. No schedule. Start when you want. Pause for coffee. The audio plays as you walk.

The Game

Everything is true. Except a few things aren't.

Every tour mixes real history with convincing fiction. At the end, you guess which is which. Try it now.

1

Chicago reversed the flow of an entire river so its sewage would stop poisoning its drinking water.

Chicago

2

Al Capone ran a soup kitchen during the Great Depression that fed over 5,000 people a day.

Chicago

3

Marie Laveau, New Orleans' Voodoo Queen, was also one of the city's most sought-after hairdressers.

New Orleans

That's what every tour feels like. Stories so good you can't tell what's real.

Interactive

Ask the narrator anything

Curious about something you just heard? Want to know more about a building you're standing in front of? Ask a question and get an answer — in character, in context, about exactly where you are.

"What else happened here?"
"Where should I get lunch nearby?"
"Is that story actually true?"
Better Together

Bring friends for $4.99

Add up to 3 friends to any tour. Everyone gets the full experience on their own phone — same stories, same game, same arguments about what's real.

Up to 3 friends per tour
$4.99 add-on

People keep telling us about it

"The kids didn't look at their phones once. We're still arguing about which stories were real. Doing another city next month."

JT
James T.
Chicago · family trip

"I've lived in New Orleans for 12 years and I learned things I'd never heard before. Also the narrator is hilarious. I was laughing out loud on the street."

SR
Sarah R.
New Orleans · local

"Way better than a guided group tour. We went at our own speed, took breaks when we wanted, and the quiz at the end actually made us pay attention to the stories."

MK
Mike K.
Chicago · weekend trip

See what the fuss is about

Download the app, pick a city, and start walking. The first episode is free.

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