Bryggen is Bergen's waterfront row of wooden wharf buildings, their crooked facades leaning together like old conspirators. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the structure dates to the medieval Hanseatic League, when German merchants controlled Norway's most lucrative trade: dried stockfish, shipped from the Arctic and sold across Europe.

Bergen burned repeatedly, and Bryggen burned with it, rebuilt each time in the same ancient footprint. The narrow alleyways between the buildings once hummed with plague-carrying traders, their immunity making them dangerous neighbours.

VoiceMap's self-guided tours use Bryggen to explore the darker underbelly of Bergen's merchant wealth, following the story of Anne Pedersdotter, the last person executed as a witch in Bergen in 1590. The tours trace how commercial greed and misogyny fed Norway's witch trials, walking listeners through the very alleyways where power and paranoia collided.