Sometimes when you’re slogging your way through a somewhat monotonous and super-long workday, your mind begins to wander — oftentimes in the direction of an escape. You begin thinking about the next time you can toss up an "out of the office" email signature and drive or jet away for a few days’ worth of well-earned vacation.

With recent advancements in virtual reality touring technology and offerings, you can now add an immersive, often interactive element to your destination-related daydreams.

A VR tour — whether they’re via an app or web browser, used with or without a VR headset — is one of the newest and most useful tools that exist when it comes to helping you choose a destination or plan a trip.

These tours enable you to — from pretty much anywhere — test-drive the activities and attractions destinations offer, in case you aren’t sure where exactly you want to go, or if you don’t know what all you’d like to do at a destination during your stay.

Here are five apps and websites where you can travel window-shop. Just make sure you browse while you’re on a break — maybe wait to travel window-shop until, say, lunchtime.

Las Vegas is a popular destination for both work and play. The city has proactively embraced VR tours with its recently launched app, Vegas VR, a companion to the GeoVegas immersive desktop experience, which offers 360-degree video tours of attractions, hotels and more.

“Las Vegas is always looking for innovative ways to engage visitors,” says Cathy Tull, senior vice president of marketing for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA). “[Vegas VR] allows us to showcase the destination to first time visitors and remind Vegas enthusiasts about all of the unique offerings.”

The app is a new way for visitors to connect with Las Vegas, and it even offers custom-built itineraries for food lovers, first time visitors and more.

Providing potential visitors with the tourism test-drive capabilities that VR tours offer is especially crucial for a destination like Vegas, since there are so many activities in and around town. Vegas VR allows travelers a chance to plot out a trip that suits their travel style and desires.

Launched in 2007, Google Street View was one of the first services to provide panoramic views from rural and urban streets around the world. In the ensuing years, Google has added to its repertoire of 360 views of all kinds of interesting attractions, including world landmarks and natural wonders, museums, arenas and restaurants, among others.

YouVisit specializes in VR tours and has one of the world’s largest collections of interactive VR content. You can use its website or one of its apps (with or without a VR headset) to tour all kinds of places all over the world, including Croatia by boat, New York City by helicopter, the Caribbean by cruise ship and a slew of other destinations. YouVisit also offers a bunch of hotel and resort tours to help you pick a place to stay once you’ve nailed down a destination.

This app offers 360 videos and virtual tours that you can download, so you can watch them even if you’re taking a work break somewhere where you don’t have wireless access (and don’t want to burn any mobile data). You can virtually visit Ireland’s Rugged Coast, take a short walk in Prague and check out local attractions in Denver, to name just a few options.

This app allows users to upload and share their own 360 videos — so once you get to your destination you can actually contribute some of your experiences to the app itself. The videos are grouped by categories like landscape, entertainment, educational and sport, and you can search for specific videos of activities or locations you’re interested in.