Turns out Columbus, OH is interesting.
TourPods has 161 narrated audio stories about Columbus — the hidden history, true crime, food legends, and local lore of its streets, told like a podcast about wherever you're standing.
Columbus Center for Paper and Book Arts
From Fresh Air Classroom to Paper and Press
A school built for health found a second life in the arts.
Ohio Supercomputer Center
Where Ohio Learned to Compute Together
How a Columbus-based center linked research, classrooms, and industry across Ohio.
Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium
Where Ohio State Put Jesse Owens’ Name
A stadium that turns tribute into living motion.
Chadwick Arboretum & Learning Gardens
A Campus That Teaches in Leaves
How Ohio State turned its grounds into a living library of plants.
Scioto Mile
How Columbus Turned Back Toward the Scioto
A riverfront once built to move past became a place to stay.
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When CompuServe Tried to Soften the Screen
A Columbus company tried to make online life feel like home.
The Ohio State University, Columbus campus
How Ohio State Helped Make Columbus a Medical City
A land-grant campus grew into a powerhouse of care, training, and research.
Columbus College of Art & Design
Where Columbus Learned to Draw Big
How an art school helped shape a city’s creative self-image.
Topiary Park
When a Painting Learned to Grow
How downtown Columbus turned Seurat’s famous scene into living sculpture.
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Before Berlin, There Was Columbus
How Jesse Owens became Jesse Owens at Ohio State.
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The Night Columbus Shocked the Boxing World
Buster Douglas’s upset of Mike Tyson became a Columbus story forever.
Nuclear Reactor Laboratory
When Nuclear Science Came to Campus
How Ohio State’s reactor made atomic training a daily campus practice.
Slate Run Metro Park
A Park That Peels Back Central Ohio
At Slate Run, past and landscape meet in one long, revealing walk.
Southern Theatre
How the Southern Kept the Lights On
A theatre’s survival tells a larger Columbus story.
The Ohio State University Columbus campus
How Ohio State Engineered a City’s Reputation
A university’s steady research work helped shape Columbus as an engineering center.
CAS headquarters
The Numbers That Gave Chemicals Their Namesakes
How Columbus helped give substances a single identity the world could trust.
COSI
Where Columbus Learned to Touch Science
How hands-on science helped make COSI a Columbus institution.
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Before America Went Online, Columbus Already Had
How CompuServe turned Columbus computing into an early online world.
Whetstone Park of Roses
When Columbus Gave Roses to Everyone
How a 1953 dedication turned a city garden into a civic ritual.
The Ohio State University Center for Automotive Research
Where Ohio State Built Cars of the Future
How one campus center turned research and student ambition into automotive force.
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When Columbus Learned to Talk Online
How CB Simulator made CompuServe a social pioneer.
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Where a Quiet Creek Carries Wild Abundance
A central Ohio stream reveals extraordinary life and the choices required to protect it.
Scioto Audubon Metro Park
Where a Brownfield Learned to Breathe Again
A riverfront industrial site becomes habitat, trails, and city escape.
Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center
Reading Ice From the Middle of Ohio
How Columbus became a world center for studying ice, climate, and distant glaciers.
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