360° Panosphere Tours
Click and drag to look around inside of these spherical, panoramic images and follow the arrow links to move between locations. Use the motion-sensitive features of mobile devices to view these tours on tablets, smart phones, and within Virtual Reality headsets.
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine:
On April 26th, 1986, a power surge in Reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant triggered an explosion that resulted in the worst nuclear disaster in history. Now, over 30 years later, the power plant is being decommissioned and thick forests smother the ghost town of Pripyat, a Soviet-era community that was home to almost 50,000 inhabitants at the time of its evacuation. Buildings there have been plundered for anything of value and are slowly crumbling under nature’s aggressive advance.
National Geographic included these spherical panoramas in their coverage of the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 2016. They were all captured in July of 2015.
Elvis Presley’s Graceland:
Located on almost 14 acres south of Memphis, Tennessee, Graceland was the home of Elvis Presley from 1957 until his death in 1977. He and his parents are also buried just north of the mansion in the Meditation Garden. Having opened to the public in 1982 as a museum, Graceland is now the second-most visited home in the US after the White House.
Use this tour to explore all public areas of the Graceland mansion and property. These 360-degree images make up a large part of the iPad audio tour that is included in every Graceland visitor’s experience, an interactive app designed by Unified Field in NYC.
Ancient City of Petra, Jordan:
Founded by the Nabataeans sometime around 300 BC, Petra sat at the junction of several caravan trading routes and prospered for hundreds of years as a trading city. Romans took control in 106 AD and further expanded its grand carvings and structures, but under later Byzantine rule the city declined as trade shifted to sea-based routes. A massive and destructive earthquake in 363 AD accelerated the fall of Petra and it sat mostly quiet until being rediscovered by a Swiss explorer in 1812. Now Petra is the most-visited tourist attraction in Jordan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and considered one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.
E/V Nautilus:
Exploration Vehicle (E/V) Nautilus is a scientific research ship operated by the Ocean Exploration Trust with the mission of “advancing the frontiers of ocean exploration.” The ship is seen here while in port in Long Beach, California.
Carlsbad Caverns National Park:
Descend through the Natural Entrance into Carlsbad Cavern and explore six locations inside of the cave’s largest chamber, the 8.2-acre Big Room.
Death Valley National Park:
The hottest and driest place in North America, Death Valley recorded a temperature of 134° in 1913, that highest air temperature ever recorded on the surface of planet Earth. It is the largest national park in the Lower 48.