Destinations

Every city here has one story we lead with

We do not open a city until we can cover it properly. That means dozens of guides, sources on every claim, and a reason to press play at each stop — not a thin page per landmark.

5
cities with guides
190+
places written
22
tours recorded
6
cities queued
🎧22 tours recorded, playable now
📚Sources cited on every guide
👤Every script human-reviewed
💳No card needed to listen
↩️Refund if a guide is wrong

Quick answer

Which cities can I actually listen to today? San Francisco and the Bay Area are fully live with 22 recorded tours and 99 written guides, including Silicon Valley campuses. Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo and Kyoto have written guides live with audio in production. Taipei, Hong Kong, Singapore, Paris, London and Las Vegas are next — join a city waitlist and you will hear the day it opens.

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Open a city and start with a free preview.

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San Francisco

USA · California
“The Golden Gate Bridge is not, and has never been, red.”
Our home city and the deepest catalog we have: the bridge, the island prison, the cable cars that are legally a moving national landmark, and the Silicon Valley campuses an hour south. Twenty-two guides are recorded and playable right now.
Audio live114 guides22 recorded
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Los Angeles

USA · California
“The Hollywood sign was an advertisement for real estate.”
Beaches, studio backlots, an observatory that has starred in more films than most actors, and the desert light that made the whole industry move here in the first place.
Written guides live · audio in production32 guides
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New York City

USA · New York
“Grand Central's ceiling has the night sky painted backwards.”
Five boroughs, one impossible density of stories: the park that was engineered to look accidental, the terminal that was saved by a First Lady, the bridge that killed its own designer.
Written guides live · audio in production42 guides
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Tokyo

Japan
“Senso-ji was founded by two fishermen who caught a statue.”
A city that rebuilt itself twice in one century and kept its shrines in between the towers. Neon, temples, a fish market that moved, and the world's most punctual train system.
Written guides live · audio in production22 guides
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Kyoto

Japan
“Kiyomizu-dera's stage is held up without a single nail.”
Eleven centuries of capital city, spared by the war and crowded by the world. We write the guides for the hours when the coach tours are somewhere else.
Written guides live · audio in production2 guides

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Written and researched, waiting on the recording queue. Join a waitlist and we will tell you the day it lands — early-access members get it first.

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Taipei

Taiwan
“Taipei 101 hides a 660-tonne golden ball that stops the building swaying.”
Night markets that run on a century-old rhythm, temples wedged between scooter shops, and the mountain trails that start at the end of a metro line.
Opening next · join the waitlist
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Hong Kong

China (Hong Kong SAR)
“The Star Ferry has crossed the same harbour since 1888.”
The most vertical city on earth: escalators as public transport, dim sum trolleys as timekeepers, and a skyline that reads like a stock chart.
Opening next · join the waitlist
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Singapore

Singapore
“The Supertrees are not decoration — they breathe for the conservatories.”
A country engineered on purpose, from the hawker centres that saved street food to the reservoir hiding under the shopping district.
Opening next · join the waitlist
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Paris

France
“Parisians petitioned to have the Eiffel Tower torn down.”
The city that invented the boulevard, the department store and the sidewalk café — and then spent a century arguing about all three.
Opening next · join the waitlist
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London

United Kingdom
“The Great Fire of 1666 killed six people and saved thousands from the plague.”
Two thousand years of city stacked on itself — Roman wall, medieval lane, Victorian sewer, glass tower, all within one block.
Opening next · join the waitlist
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Las Vegas

USA · Nevada
“The Strip is not in Las Vegas. It never has been.”
A city built by a dam, a mob and an air-conditioning invention — with a national park twenty minutes from the last casino.
Opening next · join the waitlist

How we choose the next city

Depth beats breadth. One city done properly out-earns ten done thinly.

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Demand, measured

Waitlist signups and search demand decide the order. Members vote, and Gold members' votes count double.

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Source availability

A city opens when we can cite official archives for the claims we want to make. No sources, no city — that rule has cost us three launches so far.

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Language fit

Destinations where Chinese-speaking travellers are underserved jump the queue. That is our clearest edge and we intend to use it.

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Questions about coverage

Why so few cities?
Because thin coverage is worse than none. A city launches with dozens of interlinked guides and verified sources, which takes weeks of research per city, not hours.
Can I request a city?
Yes — join the waitlist for the closest city and tell us what you actually wanted. Requests are the single biggest input into what we build next.
What does 'audio in production' mean?
The written guide, the sources and the transcript are live and free to read. The recording is queued. You can read the whole guide today and the audio appears on the same page later.
Are the Silicon Valley campus tours real?
Yes — Apple Park, the Googleplex, Stanford and the Computer History Museum are recorded. They are walking guides of the public areas, with the history of how each place got there.

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Free previews everywhere. Four complete San Francisco tours cost nothing at all.