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The Best Podcast Walking Tours on iTunes

by Samantha DiMauro

May 28, 2015

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High Line Walking Tour by The Bowery Boys: New York City History

The Bowery Boys are a pair of charismatic New Yorkers stocked full of fun facts for their podcast dedicated to the working history of New York City. This tour of the elevated, abandoned train-track-turned-urban-garden known as the High Line comes with a dash of history and a detailed explanation of the surrounding neighborhoods you’ll be passing over on your walk. The tour begins at the park’s southern entrance in the Meatpacking District.

 

Freedom Trail Walking Tour by Fodor’s

Boston’s Freedom Trail has about 101 different ways to explore, but Fodor’s tour is full of incredibly useful and insightful information for each of the 16 sights along the trail. Feel free to start wherever your heart desires, whether the Old North Church or Boston Massacre Site inspires you to walk along the red brick road.

 

DaVinci’s Paris Walking Tour by Frommer’s

This 15-minute audio tour is adapted from Frommer’s day-by-day guidebooks, and designed to be an informative companion for visiting sites from the book The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. The tour starts at The Louvre and walks you through the same artistic scenes you saw in the movie.

 

Check out iTunes to find some more audio tours that are hidden gems in their own right.

 

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