Virtual Tours of Astronomical Observatories

• Arecibo Observatory (Puerto Rico)
  A clickable map of the world's largest single dish radio telescope, with explanatory text as well as pictures on a fast, well-connected server.
• Big Bear Solar Observatory (Caltech)
  The tour page has nice pictures, but the full-size ones are huge.
• Bulgarian National Astronomical Observatory - Rozhen
  Pictures of the largest telescope in southeast Europe and itsmates.
• Chamberlin Observatory (Denver University)
  A linear tour with lots of history and explanations.
• Gemini Observatory A QuickTimeVR tour of Gemini North
• Griffith Observatory (Los Angeles)
  Illustrated textual tour of the nation's premier public observatory
• Haystack Observatory (Massachusetts)
  From an aerial photo, you can click into information about various radio (and optical) telescopes at the site.
• Indian Hill Observatory (Ohio)
  A tour through time as a group of amateur astronomers clear a dark site and build an observatory
• James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (Mauna Kea, Hawaii)
• W.M. Keck Observatory (Mauna Kea, Hawaii)
  Not a tour, but lots of pictures and a site plan
• Kitt Peak National Observatory
  Not a tour, but their visitor brochure has a map and pictures.
• Kuiper Airborne Observatory (NASA Ames, Mountain View, CA, no longer flying)
  Lots of time and money was put into this memorial to the KAO, which is no longer flying. Unhappily, bit rot has set in, and most of the pictures are gone. I helped discover the rings of Uranus using its telescope in 1977.
• Lick Observatory (University of California, Santa Cruz)
  LOTS of clickable pictures, four clear thumbnails per page almost make you think you're on Mount Hamilton. You can also start from the Lick Observatory website. There is a separate tour of NASA Ames' Crocker Dome on Mt. Hamilton, used for the Vulcan photmetric planet search.
• Lowell Observatory (Flagstaff, Arizona)
  John Spencer put together several walks through the observatory navigated by mouse clicks.
• Mauna Kea Observatories (Hawaii) [Aerial Tour]
• McDonald Observatory (University of Texas)
  Hobby-Eberly Telescope Construction Tour
• Mount Hopkins Observatories (Smithsonian Institution and University of Arizona)
  Clickable images of most of the telescopes on the mountain, including both the new and old MMT.
• Mount Laguna Observatory (San Diego State University)
• Mt. Wilson Observatory (California)
• L'Observatoire de Nice (France, en Francais)
  Part of the Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur
• Oak Ridge Observatory (Massachusetts)
  Formerly operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
• Palomar Observatory (California)
  A narrated tour about the prime focus by Jesse Greenstein, who has used it since 1948.
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey (Apache Point, NM)
• SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy)
  Movies and photos of the successor to the Kuiper Airborne Observatory, which also has a tour
• University of Illinois Observatory
• Venezuelan National Observatory
• Weaver Observatory (Wittenburg Univ., Ohio)
  Part of a tour of the whole campus
• Yerkes Observatory (University of Chicago)
• York University Observatory (Toronto, Ontario)