Every fact checked against its source. Legends told as legends.

Research

Every fact in a tour traces to a published source, primary records wherever we can find them. A surprising claim needs two independent publishers before we tell it as fact; otherwise we tell it as one source’s account. Legends are told as legends, and where historians disagree, we say so.

Writing

The narration is written with AI from that research, for the ear: each stop has a question, the people involved, something to look at, and a payoff. The ending of each walk is written to change how you see what you just walked through.

Checking

Separate checking passes review the claims and the storytelling. What you are asked to look at from each stop is checked against maps and photographs, and anything that can only be confirmed on the ground is listed for a person to check.

Approval

A human (actually a real person!) checks, verifies, and approves every tour before it is sold.

Voices

The narration voices are AI-generated. No narrator you hear is a recording of a person reading the script. We work to say the names of people and places the way locals do.

Pictures

Photographs come mostly from Wikimedia Commons, each credited with its license. Some tours also include illustrations made for The3DTravel with an AI image tool. They are always labeled as illustrations, because they show the mood of a place, not its exact details.

What we leave out

Prices and opening hours change too often to narrate, so the tours point you to official sources instead. Inside museums, the narration complements the signs; read those too.

Keeping tours current

A place is never static. There’s always something being built or torn down, and always some new want for something new to be built. Cities are alive as much as humans are alive, but in their own way. To bring their most current stories to you, we regularly review and adjust our tours for new discoveries, old facts brought into new light, and construction, because there’s pretty much always construction.

Found something that has changed, or that we got wrong? Please write to [email protected].