Virtual Tour of US

Thanks to the map sites on the Internet, it is now possible to take a virtual tour of the major attractions present in the US. First it was Microsoft's http://local.live.com, which provided 'Bird's eye view' of all major cities of the US. With this, you could pretty much see every monument and every building of importance in its high-quality picture, as though you're standing right next to it. I was amazed to see clear pictures of each casino on the Las Vegas strip! This was last year.

Just recently I read about Google having introduced the 'Street View' feature in its map site. With this, you can see a 360 degree view of almost any location on the streets of the US city for which this facility has been enabled. This means that you can view the details of every little street on Manhattan Island! That's pretty amazing. Not just that, the direction arrows on this picture allows you to actually navigate in either directions of the street, thus giving you a feel of actually passing through the street. That's quite good for a virtual tour!