5 Pointz preserved by Google Street Art archive

Popular website Google–perhaps you've heard of them?–recently launched its Cultural Institute, an online archive that takes you on private tours of some of the world's best museums, art sites and public landmarks. But it's not just the classics on display—the new Street Art collection showcases past and current graffiti from around the globe, which means that anyone can check out shots of the lost 5 Pointz street art.

As WNYC's Studio360 reported, the gallery turns back the clock on 5 Pointz, showing walls covered with hundreds of incredible murals from the warehouse's last five years as a street-art canvas. So although the space was whitewashed to make room for, you guessed it, condos, the graffiti now lives—on the Internet, that is—alongside some of the greatest works of art of the 20th century. Now, when you get hit with 5 Pointz nostalgia, you can take a virtual tour of the lost art (and then visit the White House without having to put on pants or take a trip to Versailles and the Louvre without knowing a lick of French).