You can get a street view of almost anywhere in the world, making you feel as if you are almost there.
Sometimes, though, the very clever technology doesn’t quite capture moving images as it should – which can create some hilarious results.
In the collection below, photos from all over the world reveal some of the funniest and bizarre distortions created by Google Earth.
One woman looks more like an abstract piece of art after she is snapped lying on a beach and ends up with half of her body missing.
A dog appears to have two heads as it walks along a dirt track somewhere in the world and there’s the man who dared to move his arm while the camera was moving…resulting in his face being replaced by his arm.
Yikes! This snap works so perfectly that this cat looks like a whole new species all together
Picasso would be proud! One woman’s head merges into her back and she loses her arm as she suns herself on a beach
Elbow in the face, literally: This man’s arm appears to be coming out of his face as he is captured at this tourist spot
Ghoulish! This sightseer is nothing more than a floating head with arms as she takes a photo
The lady in this photo looks like something from a science fiction film in this Google Earth image
Rubbed out! This woman enjoys a beer on the beach but loses half of her body and her head
Creepy: One woman floats with just half of her body in a train station in America
This man takes a selfie, but looks as though he has no head and the woman standing next to him is not in great shape either
Looking more like a Salvador Dali painting, with one hand floating around above her head and disjointed legs
This pooch looks like he has two heads as he takes a stroll along a dirt track somewhere in the world
This woman is completely warped in this photo, she looks like she is standing on one leg
This person is no more than a pair of shoes as this shot is taken in Grand Central Station in New York
This looks like a scene from Inception, with the roads bending in very peculiar angles
These girls are soaking up the sun on a pebbly beach but little do they know what they look like through the eyes of Google
The placing of this smart phone is a rather unusual one. There is also a section of a man’s leg, but no sign of the rest of him
One beach-goer is nearly completely swallowed up by Google earth
This looks like something you might see in a horror film – a lifeless floating arm
This tourist poses against an idyllic scene but seems to have lost his legs
These two women have been completely erased except for their legs in this snap
These women enjoying the sun have all merged into one strange pile of limbs