Underground Tour of the Queen City

Bet you didn't know this was upstairs

Provided by American Legacy Tours, The Queen City Underground tour is located in Historic Over The Rhine.  It is filled with fun historic facts of infamous entertainers, Cincinnati breweries of course stories of Cincinnati's own mob.  You will learn about such folks as Ezzard Charles (more than just a street, evidently), Wild Bill Hickok, and this Strong Man with a fun story connecting him and the Cincinnati Reds.  Check their website for tour times and ticket prices.

What Karen Said:  Had a fun time on this tour.  Without giving too much away it was interesting to hear about Buffalo Bill and his time here (remember that story about the arrow and the apple on the head?), the history of the Chicken Dance, the wonderful stories about the Cincinnati Beer Gardens and so much more.  Descending into the recently uncovered sub basement of a historical breweries fermenting tunnel was very cool!  Take the tour - the tour guides are knowledgeable and fun and it is very educational.  I enjoyed it so much I book a wonderful book about the cities brewery history that I read in a matter of days.

Beer in the basement's basement.

What Colleen Said: I'm not going to lie... this tour was pretty cool.  It started off learning about the history of buildings... I was a bit too cool for it at that point.  Seriously, I'm not s history buff and I am not going to try to be.  Sure, maybe the history of Imelda Marcos, but telling me the history behind some boxing match in a building that will be torn down in a few months... snooze fest.  But somehow magic insued and I was able to be won over.  Going into the building that once housed The Warehouse and learning there was a"hidden" staircase... okay, my underaged-fake-ID-yeilding self was like, "REALLY!? that's so cool."  From there the stories got more interesting.  Learning about my fellow law breakers and how they circumventing those prohibition era laws.  Then we headed down to a basement, below a basement to what was a brewery.  The only thing missing down there was there was NO beer, and NO Fraggles.  Alas, even without Red, it was still pretty cool.  See the picture of me holding it up?  Yeah, it wasn't going to go anywhere, but I like to look mega tough.