While many still associate audio tours with bulky headsets rented from museum ticket counters, commercial startups, artists and storytellers are developing new smartphone-based urban audio walks they ...

Viewing a cool exhibit is exciting all by itself, but hearing your favorite actor describe it while you're there? Now that's an experience. Here are 10 star-studded audio tours from around the world ...

One of the best ways to see Yellowstone National Park is from behind the wheel, moving at your own pace and stopping whe ...

Hundreds of cultural institutions around the world—including the Smithsonian Institution’s 19 museums, galleries, gardens and National Zoo—have closed amid the COVID-19 pandemic. But thanks to a ...

Travelers can now explore locales in New York, Berlin, Marrakech, and beyond. Detour—the audio tour app released earlier this year from former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason—unveiled 10 new tours in six new ...

is the editor of the Platformer newsletter and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast. Almost two years ago, Andrew Mason introduced Detour, an aptly named departure from his previous job as the co-founder ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KELO) — Rapid City is known for being the City of Presidents. So recently, the city leveled up the presidential tours downtown. When walking around downtown, you get to see every ...

For the newly expanded San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the standard, static push-button audio tour simply wouldn’t do. Instead, the museum worked with a San Francisco startup to create a series of ...