Despite its name, The Treasury on the Plaza has nothing to do with Spanish gold. St. Augustine's first and only skyscraper went up in 1926, the same year the city's famed Bridge of Lions opened. At six storeys, it so alarmed locals that the city promptly banned tall buildings to protect its colonial skyline. The building spent most of its life as a bank, operating under names from The First National Bank of St. Augustine to The Atlantic Bank Building, before becoming a private event venue in 2014.

It sits on the Plaza de la Constitucion, laid out in 1573 to Spanish King Philip II's specifications and considered the oldest planned public space in the United States. Nearby Treasury Street, barely seven feet wide, was deliberately built so two men could carry a chest of gold from the harbour but no carriage could squeeze through to steal it.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours untangle the real from the imagined here, tracing the Spanish Treasury's piracy-proof street design, the Plaza's role in everything from colonial rule to the Civil Rights movement, and the story of a small city that built one skyscraper and immediately regretted it.