Digital Age: Inside the Stern, Austere Airports of Your Travel Nightmares

Tuesday, December 3, 2013, by Amy Schellenbaum

This holiday season, Google has given humankind the great gift of Google Maps within transportation hubs, launching a service that allows over-preparing travelers Street View inside 16 airports, 59 rail stations, and 16 popular points of interest. This is, of course, in addition to the Ikea floorplan maps Google floated a year ago, as well as the Street View tours available for everything from earthquake-ravaged Japan to the canals of Venice. Inspired by Gizmodo, which recently showed off some of the features of the latest perk, here's a peek inside the symmetrical and oddly beautiful-in-a-utilitarian-way airport interiors that just might make the long holiday lines and delayed flights a smidge easier to bear.

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