About TourGraph
TourGraph is a place you visit because it makes you smile. We surface the world's most surprising, weird, and wonderful tour experiences — from fairy hunting in Iceland to midnight street food crawls in Bangkok. No signup. No tracking. No algorithms deciding what you see. Just serendipity.
136,256
tours indexed
2,645
destinations
205
countries
Four Pillars
Every feature and design decision passes all four tests.
Zero Friction
No signup, no login, no cookies beyond essentials. A stranger lands here and is delighted within 5 seconds.
Instant Smile
Warm, witty, wonder-filled. Never snarky. The goal is “oh wow, I didn't know that existed.”
Effortlessly Shareable
Every piece of content has a unique URL and a beautiful preview card. See something fun, share it, your friend smiles too.
Rabbit Hole Energy
That “one more click” quality through genuine curiosity, not dark patterns. You came for one tour and 20 minutes later you're somewhere unexpected.
Features
Tour Roulette
One button. Random tour. Weighted toward extremes — highest rated, cheapest, weirdest, most expensive. Press again.
Right Now Somewhere
Time-zone-aware tours happening where it's golden hour right now. Instant teleportation feeling.
The World's Most ___
Superlatives from the global tour catalog. Most expensive. Cheapest 5-star. Longest. Each one a shareable card.
Six Degrees of Anywhere
491 chains connecting cities through real tours with surprising thematic links. One random chain, full timeline, “Surprise Me” to explore another.
How It's Built
Next.js with React Server Components for instant page loads and SEO-friendly OG previews.
Express + TypeScript API serving data from SQLite — sub-50ms queries, clean separation of concerns.
Viator Partner API for tour data: photos, pricing, ratings, and descriptions across 300,000+ experiences worldwide.
Claude API for AI-generated witty one-liners and Six Degrees chain connections.
TypeScript throughout, strict mode, zero lint warnings.
Built By
TourGraph is built by Nikhil Singhal, a technology executive with 25+ years of experience building products at Expedia, T-Mobile, Microsoft, and startups. Previously CTO at Tour Guy (AI-powered travel, 400% efficiency gains) and Imperative (scaled $1M to $4M ARR). Based in Seattle.
Read the origin story to learn how TourGraph went from a competitive analysis that said “kill the project” to a site that makes people smile.