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One button, one random inhabited spot on Earth in Street View, most of them somewhere nobody would ever have chosen to look.
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Random Street View sits in Armchair Travel under Wander, filed as instant.
About this category: Street-view wandering, city walks, live webcams and the small miracle of standing on a road eight thousand kilometres away for free.
Yes. Random Street View is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Random Street View without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file Random Street View as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Instant": Good within five seconds of loading.
Live HD cameras on piazzas, beaches and ski slopes across Europe and beyond, which is the closest a browser tab gets to a day trip.
City walking videos, driving tours and a guess-the-city game built on top of them, sorted by country for when you cannot travel.
Live webcams sorted by country and theme, from Alpine passes to Caribbean beach bars, with a great many pointed at completely empty roads.
The largest archive of 360 panoramas anywhere, pinned to a world map and free to browse, covering plenty of places no Street View car reached.
Blows one image up into a multi-page halftone poster that you print at home and tape across an entire wall.
Leaves a trail of emoji behind your cursor. There is nothing more to it than that, and nothing more is needed.
A hundred yes-or-no questions about things you may have done, counted downward from 100. A student rite of passage since the 1980s.
The definitive index of American roadside oddities: the giant fibreglass animals, the museums devoted to exactly one thing.
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