Google street view

At the sidewalk of Tamagawa-josui, which is a canal in Western Tokyo, there was staged a Streetview prank, very likely by the students of a nearby art school, Musashino Art University. These people are well-known to Internet users as Japanese Bird People or Japanese Pigeon People. Edit: Looks like the same gang strikes again! Name: Japanese

Montreal based artist Jon Rafman isn’t the original photographer but instead he explores Google Street Views and takes screenshots of the most unusual and funny sights. The original images were taken by an army of Google's hybrid electric automobiles, each one equipped with nine cameras on a single pole trying to photograph every highway and byway in the world. Here are 36 strangest and funniest Google Street View photos from Jon Rafman's collection with a couple of our own finds.

What happens when Google Maps Street View goes wrong—or right, depending on how you look at it.

Jaqui Kenny roams the world searching for the perfect image without ever leaving home.

Detroit. Once one of the greatest contributors to the United States GDP and home to 1.8 million people, the Motor City is down to just over 700,000

Penalty for violating thousands of citizens' privacy? A $7 million fine, some public service announcements and mandatory privacy training. What a steal!

Schengland est une série du photographe anglais Alan Knox qui colle de belles images de Google Street View sur des panneaux de signalisations présents sur les

See these amazing collages of well known paintings of cities around the world – Istanbul to Saint Petersburg, Tokyo to New York – superimposed on to Google Street View

Google's Street View imagery features plenty of photographs of people, but they're often distorted and almost always feature blurred faces. Street Ghosts

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