Random Street View
One button, and you are somewhere else. Every destination is a place with real coverage, so you never land in an empty grey panel.
Random location
Finding somewhere…
Picked from 489 places known to have coverage. A truly random point on earth would land in the sea roughly seven times out of ten.
Why a random button is harder than it looks
The obvious way to build this is to generate a latitude and a longitude at random. It does not work. About seventy one percent of the planet is ocean, so most attempts land in water, and a large share of the remainder is desert, ice, forest or farmland with no road and therefore no imagery.
The fix is a curated pool. Every destination here is somewhere already named on this site: a city guide spot, a collection entry, or one of a spread of towns and cities across regions the guides do not cover. That means every teleport puts you somewhere a camera has actually been.
What to do when you land
Look around first, then walk. Click the arrows along the road and move a few hundred metres in any direction, because the interesting part is usually not the exact point you arrived at. If a place holds your attention, save it. If it does not, press the button again.
For something more directed, the collections group places by theme, and the city guides each carry ten spots chosen for a reason.
Questions
Can you explore random locations in Street View?
Yes. Press the teleport button and you land at a random place drawn from a curated pool of 489 locations that are known to be photographed. Each one loads with Street View already open.
Why is the pool curated rather than truly random?
Because roughly seven tenths of the earth is water and much of the remaining land has no Street View coverage. A genuinely random coordinate would put you in the ocean most of the time, which is not a feature.
Can I save a random place I liked?
Yes. Press Save on the panel and it goes to your saved places, which live in your own browser rather than on a server.
Can I share where I landed?
Press Share and the link is copied. It encodes the coordinates and the direction you were facing, so the person you send it to sees exactly the same view.