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The hidden engineering that holds the city up — plus a few details the Bad Historian invented.", "neighborhood": "Embankment", "tour_type": "History Tour", "tags": [], "duration_minutes": 50, "stop_count": null, "price_usd": 9.99, "currency": "USD", "is_free_preview": false, "cover_image_url": "https://euuqfgxiwmpxyscuzcqv.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/images/tours/london/london-how-london-was-built/cover.jpg", "trailer_audio_url": null, "url": "https://badhistorian.com/walking-tours/london/london-how-london-was-built/", "api_url": "https://badhistorian.com/api/tours/london/london-how-london-was-built.json" }, { "slug": "how-to-build-the-impossible", "title": "How to Build the Impossible", "subtitle": null, "city": { "slug": "florence", "name": "Florence", "country": "Italy" }, "description": "A reject block of marble became the David; a dome that shouldn't stand still holds; a 1401 contest built a genius by making him lose. 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A family who paid the biggest tax bill in art history in Picassos — France lets you do that — and the state hung the payment in a mansion Parisians nicknamed Salted after a skimmed salt tax. Marcel Proust's cork-lined bedroom, where he wrote a million words lying down. The prettiest neighborhood in Paris is named after a swamp, its poshest square has been wearing fake painted brick for four hundred years, and the loudest fight on its oldest street is over falafel. Most of what the Bad Historian tells you on this walk is true. Some of it he made up — you find out which at the end.", "neighborhood": "Le Marais", "tour_type": "Neighborhood Tour", "tags": [], "duration_minutes": 33, "stop_count": null, "price_usd": 9.99, "currency": "USD", "is_free_preview": false, "cover_image_url": "https://euuqfgxiwmpxyscuzcqv.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/images/tours/paris/paris-le-marais/cover.jpg", "trailer_audio_url": null, "url": "https://badhistorian.com/walking-tours/paris/paris-le-marais/", "api_url": "https://badhistorian.com/api/tours/paris/paris-le-marais.json" }, { "slug": "mackinac-island-banned-cars", "title": "Mackinac Island — The Island That Banned Cars", "subtitle": null, "city": { "slug": "northern-michigan", "name": "Northern Michigan", "country": "United States" }, "description": "Eight miles around the Great Turtle — an island where cars have been illegal since eighteen ninety-eight and roughly five hundred horses do all the work. A fort that surrendered without firing a shot, a doctor who spent eight years studying a hole in a living man's stomach, a hotel built in ninety-three days by candlelight, and an 'ancient legend' that was written in nineteen seventy. Most of what the Bad Historian tells you is true. A little of it he made up — you find out which at the end.", "neighborhood": "Mackinac Island", "tour_type": "History Tour", "tags": [], "duration_minutes": 44, "stop_count": null, "price_usd": 9.99, "currency": "USD", "is_free_preview": false, "cover_image_url": "https://euuqfgxiwmpxyscuzcqv.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/images/tours/northern-michigan/mackinac-island-banned-cars/cover.jpg", "trailer_audio_url": null, "url": "https://badhistorian.com/walking-tours/northern-michigan/mackinac-island-banned-cars/", "api_url": "https://badhistorian.com/api/tours/northern-michigan/mackinac-island-banned-cars.json" }, { "slug": "garden-district", "title": "Mansions, Money & Magnolias", "subtitle": null, "city": { "slug": "new-orleans", "name": "New Orleans", "country": "United States" }, "description": "Walk through the most expensive temper tantrum in American real estate history. 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A trapeze acrobat who taught herself to paint by watching Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec work, then became the first woman admitted to the French Salon — she kept a goat that ate her bad drawings. A donkey whose tail painted a masterpiece accepted into an official Paris art exhibition. Montmartre was its own tax-free town until eighteen sixty, and that's the real reason every broke genius in France ended up on this hill. Most of what the Bad Historian tells you on this walk is true. Some of it he made up — you find out which at the end.", "neighborhood": "Montmartre", "tour_type": "Art Tour", "tags": [], "duration_minutes": 49, "stop_count": null, "price_usd": 9.99, "currency": "USD", "is_free_preview": false, "cover_image_url": "https://euuqfgxiwmpxyscuzcqv.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/images/tours/paris/paris-montmartre-geniuses-gluttons-goats/cover.jpg", "trailer_audio_url": null, "url": "https://badhistorian.com/walking-tours/paris/paris-montmartre-geniuses-gluttons-goats/", "api_url": "https://badhistorian.com/api/tours/paris/paris-montmartre-geniuses-gluttons-goats.json" }, { "slug": "monuments-to-the-dead", "title": "Monuments to the Dead", "subtitle": null, "city": { "slug": "washington-dc", "name": "Washington DC", "country": "United States" }, "description": "How America learned to remember — by fighting about it every single time. 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A golden grasshopper has survived being burned down twice. A goose dodged the slaughterhouse for 38 years and got a funeral. And a cathedral rebuilt by an astronomer refused to fall during the Blitz while everything around it burned. How London burned and rose again — plus a few details the Bad Historian invented.", "neighborhood": "St Paul's", "tour_type": "History Tour", "tags": [], "duration_minutes": 45, "stop_count": null, "price_usd": 9.99, "currency": "USD", "is_free_preview": false, "cover_image_url": "https://euuqfgxiwmpxyscuzcqv.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/images/tours/london/london-st-pauls-great-fire/cover.jpg", "trailer_audio_url": null, "url": "https://badhistorian.com/walking-tours/london/london-st-pauls-great-fire/", "api_url": "https://badhistorian.com/api/tours/london/london-st-pauls-great-fire.json" }, { "slug": "architecture", "title": "Steel, Stone & Ego", "subtitle": null, "city": { "slug": "chicago", "name": "Chicago", "country": "USA" }, "description": "Chicago burned to the ground in 1871 and stacked the strangest concentration of ambition in America on top of the ashes. A newspaper tower studded with 149 pieces chipped off other people's landmarks. 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A walk through a city that cannot leave a finished building alone: a jeweller who designed his own house, a confectioner refused a private bridge over a public street, a theatre that burned down on the night of Macbeth, and a smuggler's palace full of Rodins.", "neighborhood": "Palma Old Town", "tour_type": "Architecture Tour", "tags": [], "duration_minutes": 60, "stop_count": null, "price_usd": 9.99, "currency": "USD", "is_free_preview": false, "cover_image_url": "https://euuqfgxiwmpxyscuzcqv.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/images/tours/mallorca/mallorca-architects-wouldnt-leave-it-alone/cover.jpg", "trailer_audio_url": null, "url": "https://badhistorian.com/walking-tours/mallorca/mallorca-architects-wouldnt-leave-it-alone/", "api_url": "https://badhistorian.com/api/tours/mallorca/mallorca-architects-wouldnt-leave-it-alone.json" }, { "slug": "barbary-coast", "title": "The Barbary Coast", "subtitle": null, "city": { "slug": "san-francisco", "name": "San Francisco", "country": "United States" }, "description": "Seven stops. Seven lies. One Emperor. 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A Victorian glass house. A hidden garden designed by a man who cashed in his life insurance for flowers. And roughly twelve thousand unmarked graves. 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The man who actually did the math was erased from history for seventy-five years. 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Cherries, lumber, and the asylum with a wine bar — a comedic walking tour of Traverse City where most of it is true and some of it definitely is not.", "neighborhood": "Downtown Traverse City", "tour_type": "History Tour", "tags": [], "duration_minutes": 40, "stop_count": null, "price_usd": 9.99, "currency": "USD", "is_free_preview": false, "cover_image_url": "https://euuqfgxiwmpxyscuzcqv.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/images/tours/northern-michigan/traverse-city-greatest-hits/cover.jpg", "trailer_audio_url": null, "url": "https://badhistorian.com/walking-tours/northern-michigan/traverse-city-greatest-hits/", "api_url": "https://badhistorian.com/api/tours/northern-michigan/traverse-city-greatest-hits.json" }, { "slug": "london-east-end-whitechapel", "title": "The East End & Whitechapel", "subtitle": null, "city": { "slug": "london", "name": "London", "country": "United Kingdom" }, "description": "One building here was a French church, then a synagogue, then a mosque — the same walls handed down through wave after wave of refugees. Big Ben and the American Liberty Bell were cast in the same tiny Whitechapel yard. The 'Elephant Man' built a paper cathedral with one hand. And the most feared gangster in London shot a man dead in a pub, steps from where the Salvation Army was born. The real East End — refugees, rebels, and the Kray twins — with a few details the Bad Historian invented.", "neighborhood": "Shoreditch", "tour_type": "History Tour", "tags": [], "duration_minutes": 50, "stop_count": null, "price_usd": 9.99, "currency": "USD", "is_free_preview": false, "cover_image_url": "https://euuqfgxiwmpxyscuzcqv.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/images/tours/london/london-east-end-whitechapel/cover.jpg", "trailer_audio_url": null, "url": "https://badhistorian.com/walking-tours/london/london-east-end-whitechapel/", "api_url": "https://badhistorian.com/api/tours/london/london-east-end-whitechapel.json" }, { "slug": "brooklyn-bridge-family-business", "title": "The Family Business", "subtitle": null, "city": { "slug": "new-york", "name": "New York City", "country": "USA" }, "description": "How three Roeblings gave their bodies to a bridge. 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And the last of them gave every masterpiece to Florence forever, on one condition: none of it could ever leave.", "neighborhood": "San Lorenzo", "tour_type": "History Tour", "tags": [], "duration_minutes": 60, "stop_count": null, "price_usd": 9.99, "currency": "USD", "is_free_preview": false, "cover_image_url": "https://euuqfgxiwmpxyscuzcqv.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/images/tours/florence/the-family-that-owned-florence/cover.jpg", "trailer_audio_url": null, "url": "https://badhistorian.com/walking-tours/florence/the-family-that-owned-florence/", "api_url": "https://badhistorian.com/api/tours/florence/the-family-that-owned-florence.json" }, { "slug": "french-quarter-cheat-code", "title": "The French Quarter Cheat Code", "subtitle": null, "city": { "slug": "new-orleans", "name": "New Orleans", "country": "United States" }, "description": "Beignets, Baronesses & Eight Blocks of Trouble. 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Eight stops through the French Quarter — eighty percent true, twenty percent invented.", "neighborhood": "French Quarter", "tour_type": "Food Tour", "tags": [], "duration_minutes": 90, "stop_count": null, "price_usd": 9.99, "currency": "USD", "is_free_preview": false, "cover_image_url": "https://euuqfgxiwmpxyscuzcqv.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/images/tours/new-orleans/french-quarter-cheat-code/cover.jpg", "trailer_audio_url": null, "url": "https://badhistorian.com/walking-tours/new-orleans/french-quarter-cheat-code/", "api_url": "https://badhistorian.com/api/tours/new-orleans/french-quarter-cheat-code.json" }, { "slug": "paris-grand-boulevards", "title": "The Grand Boulevards: The Man Who Demolished Paris", "subtitle": null, "city": { "slug": "paris", "name": "Paris", "country": "France" }, "description": "One man demolished nineteen thousand seven hundred and thirty buildings to rebuild Paris — including the house he was born in. 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A Ziegfeld palace Disney found with mushrooms growing in the third row, a fourteen-million-pound theater lifted thirty feet into the air rather than demolished, a skyscraper built as a memorial to a dead teenager that became the most famous address in pop music, and the room where fifty thousand people wrote in for seven hundred and twenty-eight seats. Ten stops from West Forty-Second Street to Rockefeller Plaza.", "neighborhood": "Times Square", "tour_type": "Culture Tour", "tags": [], "duration_minutes": 38, "stop_count": null, "price_usd": 9.99, "currency": "USD", "is_free_preview": false, "cover_image_url": "https://euuqfgxiwmpxyscuzcqv.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/images/tours/new-york-city/nyc-the-hit-factory/cover.jpg", "trailer_audio_url": null, "url": "https://badhistorian.com/walking-tours/new-york/nyc-the-hit-factory/", "api_url": "https://badhistorian.com/api/tours/new-york/nyc-the-hit-factory.json" }, { "slug": "paris-islands-and-the-river", "title": "The Islands & the River", "subtitle": null, "city": { "slug": "paris", "name": "Paris", "country": "France" }, "description": "In nineteen eighty-four, sewer workers found a live crocodile under the oldest bridge in Paris — she got a name, an enclosure decorated to look like the sewers, and a death certificate. A queen waiting for the guillotine got an escape plan smuggled into her cell inside a flower, and answered it by pricking holes in paper with a pin. And an army of carpenters just rebuilt a cathedral roof with hand axes — on purpose, because that's how the first crew did it eight hundred years ago. Two islands, one river, one ice cream shop so confident it closes for the summer. Most of what the Bad Historian tells you on this walk is true. 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Ernest Hemingway, too broke for lunch, catching pigeons in the Luxembourg Gardens and smuggling them home in his son's stroller. A bookshop owner with zero publishing experience who put out the most important novel of the twentieth century because every real publisher was afraid of it. And a bookstore where thirty thousand travelers have slept for free among the shelves — the rent is one page of your life story. Most of what the Bad Historian tells you on this walk is true. Some of it he made up — you find out which at the end.", "neighborhood": "Latin Quarter", "tour_type": "History Tour", "tags": [], "duration_minutes": 37, "stop_count": null, "price_usd": 9.99, "currency": "USD", "is_free_preview": false, "cover_image_url": "https://euuqfgxiwmpxyscuzcqv.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/images/tours/paris/paris-left-bank/cover.jpg", "trailer_audio_url": null, "url": "https://badhistorian.com/walking-tours/paris/paris-left-bank/", "api_url": "https://badhistorian.com/api/tours/paris/paris-left-bank.json" }, { "slug": "the-night-lincoln-died", "title": "The Night Lincoln Died", "subtitle": null, "city": { "slug": "washington-dc", "name": "Washington DC", "country": "United States" }, "description": "A comedy, a conspiracy, and the longest night in American history. 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Two small things are mine.", "neighborhood": "Jackson Park", "tour_type": "Architecture Tour", "tags": [], "duration_minutes": 55, "stop_count": null, "price_usd": 9.99, "currency": "USD", "is_free_preview": false, "cover_image_url": "https://euuqfgxiwmpxyscuzcqv.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/images/tours/chicago/chicago-obama-center/cover.jpg", "trailer_audio_url": null, "url": "https://badhistorian.com/walking-tours/chicago/chicago-obama-center/", "api_url": "https://badhistorian.com/api/tours/chicago/chicago-obama-center.json" }, { "slug": "postcard", "title": "The Postcard Tour", "subtitle": null, "city": { "slug": "chicago", "name": "Chicago", "country": "USA" }, "description": "Chicago's greatest hits, and the stories behind them. A river the city reversed so its sewage would flow toward Saint Louis. A newspaper tower with 149 chunks of other people's landmarks — the Parthenon, the Great Wall, the Alamo — bolted into the walls. 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A few small things I slipped in myself — see how many you can catch before the reveal.", "neighborhood": "The Loop & Magnificent Mile", "tour_type": "Highlights Tour", "tags": [], "duration_minutes": 40, "stop_count": null, "price_usd": 9.99, "currency": "USD", "is_free_preview": false, "cover_image_url": "https://euuqfgxiwmpxyscuzcqv.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/images/tours/chicago/postcard/cover.jpg", "trailer_audio_url": null, "url": "https://badhistorian.com/walking-tours/chicago/postcard/", "api_url": "https://badhistorian.com/api/tours/chicago/postcard.json" }, { "slug": "paris-postcard-tour", "title": "The Postcard Tour", "subtitle": null, "city": { "slug": "paris", "name": "Paris", "country": "France" }, "description": "A con man sold the Eiffel Tower for scrap metal — twice. A handyman stole the Mona Lisa, took a bus home, and kept it under his bed for two years. 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Twenty percent he invented — you find out which at the end.", "neighborhood": "Paris", "tour_type": "Highlights Tour", "tags": [], "duration_minutes": 58, "stop_count": null, "price_usd": 9.99, "currency": "USD", "is_free_preview": false, "cover_image_url": "https://euuqfgxiwmpxyscuzcqv.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/images/tours/paris/paris-postcard-tour/cover.jpg", "trailer_audio_url": null, "url": "https://badhistorian.com/walking-tours/paris/paris-postcard-tour/", "api_url": "https://badhistorian.com/api/tours/paris/paris-postcard-tour.json" }, { "slug": "london-south-bank", "title": "The South Bank", "subtitle": null, "city": { "slug": "london", "name": "London", "country": "United Kingdom" }, "description": "The rowdy south shore London kept its theatres, brothels, and prisons on — now a power station full of art, a wheel that was 'temporary' for twenty-four years, a warship the government tried to scrap, and the tallest tower in Western Europe. 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A car-free town of millionaires who still ride a horse-drawn bus, a driftwood castle roofed in cast-iron stove legs, a village named after a post-office typo, and the Odawa homeland of the crooked tree, still here today. Most of what the Bad Historian tells you is true. A little of it he made up — you find out which at the end.", "neighborhood": "Tunnel of Trees", "tour_type": "Nature Tour", "tags": [], "duration_minutes": 33, "stop_count": null, "price_usd": 9.99, "currency": "USD", "is_free_preview": false, "cover_image_url": "https://euuqfgxiwmpxyscuzcqv.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/images/tours/northern-michigan/tunnel-of-trees/cover.jpg", "trailer_audio_url": null, "url": "https://badhistorian.com/walking-tours/northern-michigan/tunnel-of-trees/", "api_url": "https://badhistorian.com/api/tours/northern-michigan/tunnel-of-trees.json" }, { "slug": "london-westminster-big-ben", "title": "Westminster & Big Ben", "subtitle": null, "city": { "slug": "london", "name": "London", "country": "United Kingdom" }, "description": "Big Ben is a cracked bell they never fixed. There's a spot near Parliament where a toilet was secretly a phone to the President of the United States. Real hippos are buried under Trafalgar Square. 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