[johnfowles]

Well one thing is for sure Google maps and/or the original Microsoft local.live.com
and its bird's eye views (now nicely intergrated in the Bing decision engine as bing maps are wonderful time wasters!
Fresh from my travels round Toronto
I turned to other Canadian landmarks plus the UK and Australia
I failed to find any streetviews of
Niagara or Montreal's Mount Royal Chalet but I did find the
Vancouver steam clock

pity the google camera came by 17 minutes after a steam eruption though!!
I am surprised that the Australian contingent has been quiet so far since there is some limited streetview coverage of both Sydney and Melbourne
I could look at Flinders Street just across the Yarra from where we stayed in 2007 but was unable to get near to this wonderful sculpture

the most memorable being I saw in Melbourne after Mende!!
I did better in Sydney where after some dogged travelling from the spot chosen by google for "circular quay" I was rewarded by this splendid and evocative full screen view which I used the printscreen button to capture .
I decided to try Bristol UK in particular the 4 brass tables known as " the nails" in front of the Corn Exchange
where per the wiki:-
Deals could be closed by payment on the nails—the popularly supposed origin of the saying "pay on the nail" or "cash on the nail".However, this origin of the term is disputed. Whatever here is one of them