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Austin

United States of America · 12 quests

History

1 quest
Texas Capitol, Austin🇺🇸 Austin
Texas Capitol
Its dome rises above the U.S. Capitol

Nature

2 quests
Mayfield Park, Austin🇺🇸 Austin
Mayfield Park
Peacocks roam freely around a stone cottage
Zilker Botanical Garden, Austin🇺🇸 Austin
Zilker Botanical Garden
Dinosaur replicas hide among the living plants

Art

3 quests
Blanton, Austin🇺🇸 Austin
Blanton
Its brightest room has no paintings
Museum of the Weird, Austin🇺🇸 Austin
Museum of the Weird
Sideshow oddities share rooms with monster props
Uncommon Objects, Austin🇺🇸 Austin
Uncommon Objects
Odd things crowd every shelf

Food

3 quests
Mole Poblano, Austin🇺🇸 Austin
Mole Poblano
Chocolate is only one note in this dark sauce
Texas Quail, Austin🇺🇸 Austin
Texas Quail
This small bird is served whole, not sliced
Wood-Grilled Oysters, Austin🇺🇸 Austin
Wood-Grilled Oysters
A Gulf ingredient meets an Italian wood fire

Sport

1 quest
Q2 Stadium, Austin🇺🇸 Austin
Q2 Stadium
Its north end is made for standing

Party

2 quests
Elephant Room, Austin🇺🇸 Austin
Elephant Room
Jazz plays below the street every night
Continental Club, Austin🇺🇸 Austin
Continental Club
Before the bands, it served private suppers

United States of America

Photo quests in Austin

What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around.

Austin holds twelve quests across six categories, with no single one of them defining the place: Art and Food are level at three quests each. The one category with nothing in Austin so far is Beach.

Two of them are tier 1 — finds rather than fixtures, and the one tier whose check-in asks for PRO; the other ten are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers nine of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway.

Art covers the work and the building around it, so a mural on an ordinary street counts alongside the collection with a ticket desk. A food quest names the dish rather than the restaurant: the pin sits on the room that serves it, but what you are going for is the plate. Every check-in works the same way: the geotag your camera wrote into the photo has to land within 200 m of the quest's own point.

By category

Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the Austin quests among them.

Tier 1

The unexpected ones

The two quests in Austin the catalogue files as finds rather than fixtures — the half of a city a guidebook has no room for.

Nearby

Cities near Austin

Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country.

Questions

About quests in Austin

How many photo quests are there in Austin?
12, across six of the seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are Art (3), Food (3) and Nature (2). Nothing in Beach here yet — a category appears in a city the moment a quest is published into it, so the gaps move. Among them: Texas Capitol, Mayfield Park and Blanton.
What is there to do in Austin beyond the obvious?
2 of the 12 quests in Austin are tier 1, which is the catalogue's own mark for a find rather than a landmark: the pipeline that writes it is told that tier 3 is "everything a visitor would expect a travel app to have", and that tiers 1 and 2 are "only the unexpected finds". Austin holds two at tier 1, one at tier 2 and nine at tier 3. The tier 1 quests here are Mayfield Park and Uncommon Objects, which fall under Nature and Art.
Can you do all the Austin quests on one trip?
Most of them, with transport. The outermost of the 12 is 14 km from the middle of the Austin list, so the cluster in the middle is an afternoon and the edges are a bus or a taxi each.
Which Austin quests can you do for free?
10 of the 12 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 12 can be read and travelled to without paying anything — the catalogue is open signed out, on every plan. PRO covers the check-in on the hardest tier, which in Austin means two quests: Mayfield Park and Uncommon Objects.
How do I prove I visited a place in Austin?
Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in Austin is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from Texas Capitol fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way — upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you. The Food quests in Austin sit on the room where the dish is served rather than on the dish, so that address is what the 200 m is measured from.