Google announced a new way to view your location history within Google Maps named Timeline.

The Timeline button should be available within the Google Maps navigation menu on both desktop and mobile devices. It pretty much works like the location history feature, that you can access now in your Google account.

The Timeline feature is more user friendly, prettier and more story-like.

You can access it via the side menu by clicking on Timeline. Note, you may not see it yet even if your location history privacy is set to on:

Then here is a GIF of how it works:

Pretty cool.

Forum discussion at Google Maps Help.