While many of us can't hop on plane to visit those places, thanks to Google's new they’re just a mouse click away.

The project allows you to virtually tour 132 historic sites in 18 countries. Sites include Stonehenge, Pompei, Shark Bay in Australia, Yosemite National Park and the palace at Versailles.

From the World Wonders home page, you can choose a virtual tour by location or by theme.

Once you arrive at a site, you can immerse yourself in it. You can "walk" around using Google's Street View technology. Since automobiles weren't allowed in some of the sites in World Wonders, Google had to use cameras mounted on to create street views of the locales, the company explained in a .

In addition to taking a ground-level tour of a site, you can display information about it with a click.