Toledo, Ohio

Toledo, Ohio, has a nickname that tells you almost everything: the Glass City. In the 1880s, glassmakers arrived and never left, and by the time Edward Libbey moved his New England Glass company here in 1888, something irreversible had begun. The Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art — a building made almost entirely of the stuff — is the legacy of that obsession.

Most visitors overlook Toledo entirely, which is their loss. The Warehouse District breathes again with breweries and galleries; the Old West End's Victorian homes whisper of old fortunes; the Maumee River still carries the weight of canals and wars and grain elevators lost to fire.

VoiceMap's Toledo walking tours give you the Glass City the way locals know it — gangster hideouts in the 1930s, Underground Railroad tunnels beneath the sidewalks, and a border war Ohio once fought with Michigan over this very ground. Plug in and walk. Toledo has stories you won't hear anywhere else.