Whether you’ve been looking to see the Big Apple, whether you’re a common visitor or even if you live here and miss your city, you’re lucky and, while you’re doing so, you can be more informed about the unexpected words and the words you had no concept made up of in New York. Untapped New York, a site with engaging items about New York history, as well as local amusement tours, offers others a two-month free subscription to their virtual excursions. And it’s not typical Central Park Tours or going to the most sensible thing about the Empire State Building: those excursions take you to places in New York that you didn’t even know you were looking to see. This includes an underground subway tour, a virtual tour of Grand Central Terminal and an excursion to the iconic Fulton Fish Market.
Even if you’re lucky enough to see the Great Wall of China in person, at most, other people can’t make a stopover in the 3000 kilometers on a singles trip. But now, everyone can live more than 2000 years of history thanks to this virtual tour to the Great Wall of China. If you don’t know where to start, the site offers tips, depending on what you need to see, such as sections built during the Ming dynasty between the 14th and 17th centuries, located in the suburbs of Beijing, adding Badaling, Mutianyu, JinshanlingArray Juyongguan, Gukou and Jiankou.
No, you won’t be able to snap the Instagram-required selfie of yourself in front of the ruins, but you do have the chance to visit Machu Picchu, one of the most popular travel destinations in South America—virtually, at least. Operated by YouVisit, the tour allows visitors inside the world-famous ruins, offering 360-degree views of the ancient fortress. There’s even a feature that brings the site’s famous alpacas into your home—without the long trip or the bad smells.
Located in Egypt, the pyramids of Giza are the last wonder of the ancient world and a detail in many wish lists: delve into those ancient mysteries that researchers still can’t for an older plot. While we may not be able to stop at them at this time, thanks to Google Street View Treks, we can take a full virtual tour of the pyramids. Built about 5,000 years ago outdoors in the ancient city of Memphis, the pyramids of Giza served as tombs for Egyptian kings. Now we can make 360 degree excursions of the pyramids and the landscape without even leaving home.
Perhaps Mount Everest wasn’t on your to-do list, but now you don’t have to let distance or lack of education stop you from living as it is base camp. In 2011, a Google team spent 12 days traveling 70 km on the world’s highest mountain and, fortunately for us, recorded everything. Now, thanks to Google Street View Treks, everyone can enjoy a virtual tour and a 360-degree view of their journey. In addition to a collection of key camp panoramas, the team also captured attractive places such as a Buddhist monastery.
Civil War and American history buffs make it a point of visiting Gettysburg, Pennsylvania—home to the battle widely considered to be the turning point of the Civil War. Again, the National Parks Service comes to the rescue by offering multiple virtual tours of various parts of the Gettysburg National Military Park, built around the 16 stops in the audio tour, including Warfield Ridge, Little Round Top, and the Peach Orchard.
If you’ve secretly sought to be the next Jacques Cousteau and explore the underwater world of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, this is your chance. The Google Street View Treks team organized a virtual tour of the world-famous wish list site. With six of the ocean’s most impressive coral reefs, those 360-degree underwater prospects will transport you from your couch to the warm waters of Australia.
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