Take in sprawling views of the Great Wall of China or see the entirety of the iconic Golden Gate Bridge, all without leaving your living room with new panoramic images on Google Earth.

“People using Google Earth will find a new “Photos” layer that includes not only the existing 2D photos from the Panoramio community, but also panoramic photos contributed by users of 360cities.net,” said Wei Luo, Google’s senior geo data strategist, in a blog post. “These high-resolution panoramic photos are marked in Google earth as red square icons. When you click on one of these icons, an info bubble containing an image appears, and clicking on the image again will take you into our photo viewing mode.”

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From this mode you can drag your mouse in different directions on the photo to get 360-degree views of destinations across the globe. Images included from Panoramio and 360cities.net are both from their user-generated catalogs of panoramic photos.

Google recently added a historical layer to Google Earth with the addition of images World War II. With this feature, users can get a better understanding of the total devastation caused by the conflict in cities like London and Paris. You can use it to see photos from as early as 1945 up to present day.

Through a partnership with Slooh, Google Earth also has real-time images from space. Slooh has robotic telescopes in the Canary Islands, Chile, and Australia that provide live images of the heavens that can be seen within the program. It also provides broadcasts of events like lunar eclipses, so through this feature, you can explore space from your desk chair.