For the past couple of weeks, Google has expanded the Things To Do overlay carousel to allow searchers to scroll through the carousel vertically instead of clicking to a new page to gain more details. This change was spotted a couple of weeks ago by Khushal Bherwani on Twitter.
Here is the new look for the carousel, where you can scroll up and down each individual window to see more details:
Compare that interface to several months ago:
I can replicate this, so maybe it is fully live now?
Here is the full video:
Forum discussion at Twitter.