Point at it.
Ask about it.

Photograph a monument and a voice starts telling you what it is. Ask it anything, walk away when you've heard enough. Every one it recognises is a stamp in your passport.

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The Torre de Belém at the edge of the Tagus, people crossing the footbridge to it

It talks first. You talk over it.

It starts the moment it knows what it's looking at and stops the moment you start. Interrupt it, ask about the thing on the left, tell it to skip the dates. There is nothing to type. In a museum, switch to Read and it writes instead, same conversation, no sound.

The outer wall of the Colosseum in Rome, three rows of arches against a pale sky

Pick who does the talking.

A friend, a guide, a professor or a storyteller, in a voice and a language you choose once. You hear every option before you pick it, and after that the app never asks you anything again. Press play. These are the app's own clips.

Okay, that's the Colosseum. Half of it is missing because Rome used it as a quarry.

Every city you meet gets a stamp.

A visit is the photo, what it was, where, when, and what was said. Visits collect by city. One monument earns the stamp, five ink it black, fifteen turn it red. It counts monuments, not photographs, and the whole passport reads with no signal. Stand in the Hofburg and it can bring up the Habsburgs you met in Budapest last week: it reaches back to your own visits, not to a database.

Vienna 17 monuments · III