Provıncetown, Massachusetts

The Pilgrims landed in Provincetown in 1620, signed the Mayflower Compact on the water and sailed on to Plymouth, which has taken the credit ever since. The town took it well. It went on to fill up with Portuguese fishing families, painters, playwrights and drag queens, all of them still sharing one narrow main street.

A day in P-town, as locals call it, can come down to a malasada, a lap of Commercial Street where the dress code is more, a gallery or three and the afternoon ferry. Good fun, and all of it built on stories nobody had time to tell.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours tell them: the Azorean and Cape Verdean families who built the wharves, the fish shack where Eugene O'Neill's first play was staged, the painters who came for the light, and the ghost stories that start after dark. Press play and stay a while longer than the ferry allows.