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Black Pine Animal Sanctuary Free Audio: 0 minutes Stops: 45

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Black Pine Animal Sanctuary provides refuge to displaced, captive-raised exotic animals for the REST of their lives. Visit and tour the 18-acre refuge to meet nearly 100 big and small cats, bears, wolves, primates, birds, and more. Shop the Wolf Den Gifts & Things for gifts and souvenirs. We do not buy, sell, breed, trade, or seek out animals. Thanks for exploring!

Arts District Sculpture Gallery Free Audio: 34 minutes Stops: 9

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Welcome to the City of Williamsburg Arts District and the Outdoor Art Gallery. You are about to tour 21 unique works of art that were selected by a panel of jurors under the theme, “This Glorious Earth.” At the end of the tour you will be given instructions for voting for your favorite sculpture. With the help of sponsors and a generous gift from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the City will make a “People’s Choice Purchase,” of one of the sculptures when the exhibition closes in July of 2016. The Arts District businesses and contributing artists hope you enjoy the tour....

DC Ghost Tour Subscriber Only Audio: 46 minutes Stops: 23

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Uncover the Ghosts of DC and join us on a ghost tour of Washington, D.C.! In this ghost tour, you'll explore twelve haunted places surrounding the White House, where you will hear about the history of each location, the tragic events that occurred there, and the eerie hauntings and ghosts that still linger to this day as a result! You may even witness a haunting on the darkened streets of DC, or in one of the old, haunted structures we will visit! The present day capital of the United States was founded more than 250 years ago, but Captain John Smith first explored the DC area, which was settl...

Elvis In Memphis Subscriber Only Audio: 38 minutes Stops: 15

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From Sun Studios to Graceland, there are few figures that loom as large in the mythos of Tennessee's largest city as the King himself: Elvis Aaron Presley. Born just over a hundred miles down US Route 78 in Tupelo, Mississippi, Elvis moved to Memphis at the age of 13, and just a few years later began his ascendancy to the rarefied air of living musical legend. Over a career of three decades, Elvis Presley forever changed the landscape of popular music and popular culture, and that world-shaking career began and ended here in the city which is aptly known as the Birthplace of Rock and Roll. ...

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park Free Audio: 29 minutes Stops: 8

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Devoted to preservation of a national musical treasure, New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park provides venues, oral histories, seminars, and demonstrations to experience jazz music and culture in the city where it originated, New Orleans. New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park was created by Congress in 1994 to celebrate the origins and evolution of the uniquely indigenous American art form of jazz. A Story rich with innovation, experimentation, controversy, and emotion, the park provides a setting to share the cultural history of the people and places that helped shape the developm...

Lost Symbols of DC Free Audio: 34 minutes Stops: 15

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From the Eye of Providence on the back of the dollar bill to the eagle clutching thirteen arrows in its talons on the Great Seal of the United States, cryptic imagery pervades American symbols, culture, and architecture. Here in the nation's capital, the beating heart of the American government, visitors encounter many such examples of the mystery and majesty of its enduring symbolism. The long conjectured link between the United States government and ancient organizations such as the Freemasons provided perfect material for novelist Dan Brown. Brown had seen huge success with "Angels and Dem...

Edgar Allan Poe Tour of Baltimore Subscriber Only Audio: 34 minutes Stops: 15

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The chilling atmosphere that Edgar Allan Poe created so vividly in his works seems almost not of this world, something that one could only imagine. However, the iconic poet, novelist and short story writer gleaned inspiration from the surroundings in his own life, including many locations right here in his home city of Baltimore. While Poe lived in several locations in the Northeast throughout his life, the writer launched his career in the Maryland capital, wrote many of his most famous works here and was even buried in the city by Westminster Hall. The infinitely influential writer broke in ...

1693: College of William and Mary Free Audio: 37 minutes Stops: 17

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Welcome to the College of William and Mary. Join us on an immersive tour through the College, as we uncover more than 320 years of history. Founded on February 8 1693, William and Mary boasts a wealth of history as America's second oldest College, first University and Law School, and rich in Colonial and Revolutionary and Civil War History. George Washington received his surveyors license here at age 17, Thomas Jefferson studied and lived here at age 16, and two other US Presidents attended class here. The College was named after King William and Queen Mary of England, whom granted the Colleg...

The Beatles in New York Free Audio: 60 minutes Stops: 15

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The Beatles were, of course, an English band. It is common knowledge that the northern English port city of Liverpool was the home city for all four band members, and London became their home later during the Beatles' career. London is also the home of Abbey Road Studios, where the Beatles completed almost all of their recordings. However, what really announced the presence of the singular phenomenon that was the Beatles to the world was their sudden, unprecedented and downright startling success in the United States, beginning here, in the country's largest city and cultural capital. Being...

Roasted In Seattle Free Audio: 27 minutes Stops: 20

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Recently, the large Cascadian city of Seattle has become the hub of a new coffee industry. With the rise of Starbucks a “third wave” of coffee makers are defining the city's culture, and are expanding globally. This third wave follows a model known to sociologists as a “third room” a place that is neither home nor work. In essence, the coffee shop culture evolved from French aristocratic establishment to a place where in all could “live” outside their homes and habits. For centuries coffee shops have been harbors for individuals, from students debating their studies, old friends...

Chinatown Walk Free Audio: 20 minutes Stops: 15

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The Chinatown of San Francisco is widely regarded as the biggest cohesive settlement of Chinese people’s outside of China. It is also known as one of the earliest “Chinatowns” developed in the western world. San Francisco’s Chinatown has a rich and turbulent history both heavily connected to and yet apart from that of San Francisco. From the unique architecture and sense of local pride to the horrors of the San Francisco Earthquake and subsequent firestorm, the habitants of Chinatown have repeatedly exemplified what it mean to struggle, survive and flourish in the melting pot that is A...

Route 66! Free Audio: 148 minutes Stops: 84

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Depending on where you start, Illinois counts as the beginning or end of your U.S. Route 66 journey. But regardless of your destination on the country’s “Mother Road,” Illinois is full of historical stops to brighten your journey. Running from the northeast corner of Chicago to the southwest region of Illinois, Route 66 contained 301 miles of roadway throughout the state before continuing on into Missouri. With major intersections in Chicago, Joliet, Troy and St. Louis, the decades-old route splinters off into larger cities. But, there’s so much to see along the way, throughout the ...

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