Two 17th century swordsmen doing battle? An escape from a building using knotted sheets? A laser zapping a Steelers fan and a Cleveland Browns fan, rendering them love-struck and about to embrace?

That can't be real.

But it is. And it isn't.

Google really did capture those scenes when it sent a car equipped with cameras down Pittsburgh's Sampsonia Way in May to take photographs for its online maps. But these images and most of the other scenes caught on Sampsonia were staged by artists Ben Kinsley and Robin Hewlett. The two set out to explore the boundaries of the real and virtual worlds after Pittsburgh became included in Street View.

The Google feature provides panoramic street-level photographs online so users can get a feel for wherever they might be heading - a virtual reconnaissance mission of sorts. Is there metered parking? A place to eat? What's the neighborhood like?