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Non-profit World Heritage Tours has undertaken a massive project – documenting all sites listed with the UNESCO World Heritage program in 360º-you-are-there “panographies”. Take a gander at the Red Fort in Agra, above. They’ve been at it since 2001 and have 1,030 detailed shots of 161 different sites in countries from Afghanistan to Vietnam. Amazingly, this represents only 19% of the landmarks and historic regions that currently hold the designation. You could easily spend hours on their website; checking out first-person views of places on your lifetime travel list is the next best thing to being there, and highly addictive. Hell, it might take you forever just to get beyond the “woah, trippy!” effect of being able to look at the images from any old angle you please. (via Jaunted)
