Like much of the nation, we can’t get enough of Google Map’s awesome new Street View feature – in fact, we look forward to never actually leaving the house again. Now, Rolling Stone has harnessed this new technology to deliver you some of our favorite rock landmarks, available in seconds. We hope this saves you from a long, sweaty pilgrimage to Graceland with that buddy you’ll lose touch with in five years.

Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique, Ludlow and Rivington Streets, New York, NY The cover of the Beastie Boys 1989 masterpiece Paul’s Boutique folds out to a near 360 view of the intersection of Ludlow and Rivington Street in New York’s East Village. The Paul’s Boutique was airbrushed in later, but a restaurant named Paul’s Boutique is currently in that building.

Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti Building, 94/96 St. Mark’s Place, New York, NY These two buildings that grace the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 double LP Physical Graffiti have changed little in the intervening twenty-seven years. It does, however, now house a clothing store called Physical Graffiti. Mick Jagger sits on one of the building’s stoops in the Rolling Stones video for “Waiting On A Friend.”

Grateful Dead House, 710 Ashbury, San Francisco, CA (on the left) The Dead lived and wrote music in this communal home from 1966 until 1968. On October 2, 1967 eight narcotics officers broke the door down and arrested Pig Pen and Bob Weir on drug charges. “That’s what ya’ get for dealing the killer weed,” one of the officers told the group. The Dead moved out the following year. The house was in bad shape for a number of years, but the current owners have restored it to its former glory, according to Bob Weir.

Site of Tupac Shakur Murder, Intersection of Koval Lane and East Flamingo, Las Vegas, NV On September 7, 1996 Tupac Shakur and Suge Knight were on their way from a Mike Tyson fight at the MGM Grand to Club 662 when a vehicle pulled up next to them at this intersection and fired twelve bullets at Shakur. He died six days later at University Medical Center.
Bob Dylan’s First New York Apartment, 161 West 4th Street, NY, NY (building on the left, third floor) In mid 1962, tired of sleeping on friends couches, Dylan bought a studio apartment in this building. He lived there until late 1964. “It wasn’t much, just two rooms above Bruno’s spaghetti parlor, next door to the local record store and a furniture supply shop on the other side,” he wrote in Chronicles Volume 1. “The apartment had a tiny bedroom, more like a large closet, and a kitchenette, a living room with a fireplace and two windows that looked out over fire escapes and small courtyards. There was barely room enough for one person and the heat went.”

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