The Cutty Sark was built in Scotland in 1869 to be the fastest tea clipper afloat, and she was. The timing, however, was spectacularly unlucky: the Suez Canal opened the very same week she first set sail, handing the tea trade to steamships that could take the shortcut.

Rather than retire gracefully, she pivoted to the Australian wool run and routinely beat rival vessels back to London by three weeks. She even lent her name to a whisky brand, smuggled into Prohibition-era America by Captain Bill McCoy, whose honest dealing gave rise to the phrase "the Real McCoy."

Named after a witch in Robert Burns's poem "Tam O'Shanter," her figurehead depicts Nannie clutching a horse's tail, a scene Burns would probably appreciate, still drawing crowds. A 2007 fire nearly ended the story, but a £46 million restoration brought her back, and she now sits raised above her Greenwich dry dock so visitors can walk beneath her hull.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours trace the ship's unlikely survival through four separate lives, from tea races to wool runs to Portuguese neglect to her rescue in Falmouth, while a ghost tour unravels the supernatural tales that have clung to her since her maiden voyage.