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Google: Wonders of the World Project

From the archaeological areas of Pompeii to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, Google’s World Wonders Project aims to bring to life the wonders of the modern and ancient world.  By using our Street View technology, Google has a unique opportunity to make world heritage sites available to users across the globe.

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WSJ:  Googles New Frontier:  The Ocean

A new partnership between Google, oceanographers and Catlin Group Limited, an international insurance and reinsurance company, aims to bring clown fish, coral reefs and other delights of the Great Barrier Reef to living rooms across the world through the Internet, using technologies that capture images of the ocean depths. A prototype of the project, called the Catlin Seaview Survey, launched Thursday in Singapore.  Read more...
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Google:  Connect Classrooms

Bring your world into the classroom with Google+.  You can join upcoming field trips or watch videos of old ones.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Monument

Explore the monument for Martin Luther King, Jr. in Washington, DC and learn about his importance from a member of the Smithsonian.

360 Cities

360Cities brings you the world through the largest and fastest-growing collection of immersive, panoramic images on the web. 
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Nature Valley Virtual Park Tours

This is a really great site, where you can take a virtual hike in one of the national parks.  Here's an excerpt from the Nature Valley announcement, "Today, in another effort to stoke everyone’s national parks passions, the company has unveiled Nature Valley Trail View: a 360-degree, panoramic, hi-def digital hiking experience, like a Google street view but for hiking trails in parks. “We videoed over 300 miles of trails from three different national parks: Great Smoky Mountains, Yellowstone and Grand Canyon,” says Scott Baldwin, marketing manager for Nature Valley."  Click here to read the entire article.
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Google Maps Views Virtual Trips

Explore natural wonders and famous landmarks with beautiful 360 degree panoramas.
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AirPano Panoramas

AirPano is a non-for-profit project focused on high-resolution spherical panoramas shot from a bird’s eye view. Being the largest resource for 360° aerial panoramas in the world – by geographical coverage, number of aerial photographs, and artistic and technical quality of the images, AirPano has already photographed over two hundred most interesting locations on our planet. There are nearly two thousand 360° panoramas on our website at the moment.
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3D Wonders of the World

The 3D Ancient Wonders virtual museum allows you to explore ancient wonders by walking through them or exploring them in real time online 3D. To view you will require the free & popular educational online 3D Shockwave Player. Fun online learning experience. 3D Ancient wonders is a collection of 3D interactive archeological reconstructions of ancient architecture, buildings, artefacts and relics. 
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Google Lit Trips

Google Lit Trips are free downloadable files that mark the journeys of characters from famous literature on the surface of Google Earth. At each location along the journey there are placemarks with pop-up windows containing a variety of resources including relevant media, thought provoking discussion starters, and links to supplementary information about “real world” references made in that particular portion of the story. 
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The Secret Door

Step inside and see where it will take you.  Randomly selects places using Google Street view.
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Arounder

This site provides panoramic views of places from all around the world.  

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Global Trek

As you visit each country, you will be asked to keep a travel journal and write about different topics. Keep your journal and a pen next to your computer and write down what you think. Start your journal by answering the following questions:  Why do you think people travel? What are some benefits of seeing the world?
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Arctic Adventure

Free to the entire K-12 community and our worldwide audience of all ages, our programming use the allure of long Arctic journeys pulled by powerful sled dogs and paired with Arctic research as the vehicle to explore natural and social sciences while we experience cultures and life in the Arctic.  The 2015 Serum run will begin on January 24, 2015.
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Museum of Natural History

This comprehensive virtual tour allows visitors using a desktop computer (Windows, Mac, Linux) or a mobile device (iPhone, iPad, Android) to take a virtual, self-guided, room-by-room walking tour of the whole museum. You can even browse a list of past exhibits, which is included on the ground floor map (see upper right map buttons).  The visitor can navigate from room to room by clicking map locations or by following blue arrow links on the floor that connect the rooms. The desktop version includes camera icons to indicate hotspots where the visitor can get a close-up view of a particular object or exhibit panel.   
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Explore Ellis Island

This Scholastic website provides an interactive tour of Ellis Island, meet the young immigrants, immigration data, and a virtual field trip video.
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The Art Project - Google's Virtual Museum

The Art Project let's you explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces. Imagine being able to see artwork in the greatest museums around the world without leaving your chair.   
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Online Tour: Louvre

Visit the museum's exhibition rooms and galleries, contemplate the façades of the Louvre... Come along on a virtual tour and enjoy the view, thanks to the sponsorship of Shiseido.  A QuickTime plug-in is required (version 5 or later).
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White House

President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama are committed to opening the doors of the White House and truly making it the People’s House.
  • Watch exclusive "Inside the White House" videos
  • Tour the West Wing, Residence, East Wing and South Lawn
  • Visit again to watch new videos and learn more
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NASA:  Virtual Field Trip: Geological Exploration

The Virtual Field Trip is an immersive multimedia application developed to support student and user exploration of areas on Earth that have been identified as analog sites to regions on Mars. Analog sites are those areas that share some common traits with sites on Mars and have been identified based on their significance and importance to NASA.
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Take a Virtual Field Trip to the Moon

Lesson plan describing how to take a virtual tour of the moon.
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Scaling Mount Everest

Hundreds of climbers are gathering in Nepal to begin a months-long odyssey up the world’s highest mountain in hopes of spending a few extraordinary moments on its peak. Scroll along the icy path to see what climbers will experience on Everest's South Col, the most popular route up the mountain.
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GeoGeussr

Explore the world.  A game that will take you on a journey all over the world.  From the most desolate roads in Australia to the busy, bustling street of New York. 
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