History maps for destinations
The house behind the story. The voice that brings it back. Connect your historic places with video, audio and self-guided walking tours.
Watch. Listen. Walk.
Add a video, an audio story and a transcript to any place. Then connect those places into a self-guided walking tour visitors can follow at their own pace.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Lincoln finished revising the address here before delivering it at the cemetery. Listen to a reading by actor Jim Getty.
Read the audio transcript (opens in a new tab)Recording: National Park Service · Reading by Jim Getty. House photo: NPS, via Gettysburg’s Wander map.
Four downtown stops. One walk through the people and places behind Gettysburg’s history.
Begin where Lincoln arrived in Gettysburg.
Watch the house tour. Hear the words that followed.
Discover the civilian story on Baltimore Street.
Continue to another home shaped by the battle.
Films, interviews and archival footage
Audio stories visitors can take along
Walking tours built around your places
Give the story a sense of place
Visitors may recognize the name of a battle, a building or a person. Your local knowledge connects those names to the landscape: what happened here, why this place matters, and where to go next.
Bring historic homes, museums, memorials and neighborhood stories together on your official map. Add the photographs, guides and practical details that turn curiosity into a visit.
Explore real places on Wander
Begin at the visitor center, see the first day of the battle from Seminary Ridge, then explore the civilian story at Shriver House. Select a place to move through the town and landscape.
Begin with the big picture
Gettysburg National Military Park Museum & Visitor Center
The information desk can help visitors choose battlefield tours and ranger programs. The museum, film and Cyclorama require tickets.
Gettysburg · © Mapbox © OpenStreetMap
More than a list of landmarks
01 · Begin with the big picture
Start with the museum, film and Cyclorama to understand the battle before exploring the places where it unfolded.
02 · See the landscape differently
Discover the first day of fighting and the building’s role as a field hospital, with exhibits connecting the landscape to the people who were here.
03 · Meet the people behind the place
Step into the Shriver family’s restored 1860 home to explore the civilian experience before, during and after the Battle of Gettysburg.
Built around your local knowledge
Create self-guided walking tours with an ordered set of stops. Build around a neighborhood, a person or an era, and let visitors explore at their own pace.
Explore this feature: Let visitors walk through historyAdd video to individual places: an interview with a historian, archival footage or a tour inside the building. Let visitors see why this particular place matters.
Explore this feature: Give every place its own filmAttach audio clips and narration to a place, with transcripts visitors can read. Bring local voices, oral histories and interpretation into the walk.
Explore this feature: Let the story come alongConnect places with parking, entrances and visitor facilities. Add your own access notes so the visit is as considered as the interpretation.
Explore this feature: Remember the practical detailsPut living-history programs, exhibitions and community events alongside the places that host them. Keep the local story growing.
Explore this feature: Give people a reason to returnEmbed the map on your website. Add QR codes to brochures and signs so visitors can step from a printed story into the wider destination.
Explore this feature: Start the story anywhereMake it yours
Yes. Add videos, audio clips and narration to individual places, with captions or transcripts. Use those same places in a self-guided tour so visitors can watch, listen and continue to the next stop.
Yes. Bring your guide, place listings, photographs and interpretation. We help turn that material into places, guides and tours on your destination’s map.
Yes. Build tours and guides around the stories you want visitors to discover, from an architectural walk to a regional heritage itinerary. Each can share the same underlying place information.
Yes. Update descriptions, photographs and visitor information in Wander as your interpretation and programs evolve.
Yes. Embed your destination map or focus an individual page on the places in one story. Visitors can explore without leaving your website.
Bring your destination to life
Bring the places, the photographs and the people who know the history. We’ll build your official Wander map with you.
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