Collection
Look at the World
Satellites, street views, the night sky, data, archives and radio — the same planet from six angles. Each one opens without an account; click through and explore it on its own site.
44 sites · checked 2026-11-03
Earth, live
Satellites, wind, lightning and earthquakes — all happening right now.
- Satellite view
Zoom Earth · zoom.earth
Live satellite imagery of Earth with cloud, fire and radar layers
Verified 14h agoOpen site - Global wind and currents
Earth Nullschool · earth.nullschool.net
Live global wind and ocean current visualization with switchable layers
Verified 14h agoOpen site - Wind and weather
Windy · windy.com
A global wind and weather map with animated airflow you can drag
Verified 14h agoOpen site - Forest change
Global Forest Watch · globalforestwatch.org
Satellite view of forest gain and loss, down to individual plots
Verified 14h agoOpen site - Live lightning
LightningMaps · lightningmaps.org
Real-time lightning map, see where the storms are right now
- Live earthquakes
USGS Earthquakes · earthquake.usgs.gov
USGS live earthquake list, filter by magnitude and region
Verified 14h agoOpen site - Undersea cables
Submarine Cable Map · submarinecablemap.com
Map of the world's undersea cables, click one to trace its route
Verified 14h agoOpen site
On the ground
A stranger's window, a random street, a map from another century.
- Someone's window
WindowSwap · window-swap.com
Look out of a stranger's window somewhere in the world
Verified 14h agoOpen site - Virtual travel
Virtual Vacation · virtualvacation.us
Pretend to walk around another city using street view
Verified 14h agoOpen site - Random street view
MapCrunch · mapcrunch.com
Drop into a random street on Earth and guess where you are
Verified 14h agoOpen site - Open world map
OpenStreetMap · openstreetmap.org
The open world map anyone can edit and export
Needs a proxyOpen site - True country size
The True Size · thetruesize.com
Drag countries onto the map to compare their true sizes
Verified 14h agoOpen site - Map quiz
Seterra · seterra.com
Geography map quizzes to learn where every country is
Verified 14h agoOpen site - Earth history
Ancient Earth · dinosaurpictures.org
Drag a timeline to see Earth's plates and life in any era
Space and scale
From the solar system down to a quark — the scale in between is hard to feel.
- Solar system tour
NASA Eyes · eyes.nasa.gov
A NASA 3D tour of the solar system that flies you to any planet
Verified 14h agoOpen site - Live night sky
Stellarium Web · stellarium-web.org
Real-time stars in the browser, drag around to see constellations and planets
Verified 14h agoOpen site - Daily astronomy photo
APOD · apod.nasa.gov
NASA's daily astronomy photo with a short explanation
Verified 14h agoOpen site - NASA image library
NASA Image Library · images.nasa.gov
NASA's full image and video archive, searchable by mission
Verified 14h agoOpen site - NASA 3D models
NASA 3D Resources · nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov
NASA's official free 3D models of spacecraft and planets
Verified 14h agoOpen site - Atom to universe
Scale of the Universe 2 · htwins.net
A zoomable scale animation from quarks up to the universe
Verified 14h agoOpen site
The world in numbers
Replace the vague 'more and more' with an actual curve.
- World data
Our World in Data · ourworldindata.org
Global data visualizations from an Oxford team, charts fully open
Verified 14h agoOpen site - World trends
Gapminder · gapminder.org
Global statistics visualized to show how the world is changing
Verified 14h agoOpen site - Data stories
The Pudding · pudding.cool
Data stories told as interactive visual essays
Verified 14h agoOpen site - Data visualisation
Information is Beautiful · informationisbeautiful.net
A showcase of complex data turned into readable charts
Verified 14h agoOpen site - World Bank data
World Bank Open Data · data.worldbank.org
World Bank open data: indicators for every country, downloadable
Verified 14h agoOpen site - Live world counters
Worldometer · worldometers.info
Live counters for population, energy, food and other world stats
- Internet stats
Internet Live Stats · internetlivestats.com
How many tweets, searches and emails happen every second
Verified 14h agoOpen site - Turkey statistics
TÜİK · data.tuik.gov.tr
Turkey's official statistics portal, with an English interface
Archives and museums
Public-domain books, historical maps and high-resolution art, all free.
- Internet Archive
Internet Archive · archive.org
The Internet Archive, full of books, films, music and old software
- Public-domain books
Project Gutenberg · gutenberg.org
Over 70,000 public-domain ebooks, free and no login to download
Verified 14h agoOpen site - Encyclopedia
Wikipedia · wikipedia.org
The free encyclopedia and first stop for research
Needs a proxyOpen site - Preprint papers
arXiv · arxiv.org
Preprint archive where the latest AI research appears
- Library of Congress
Library of Congress · loc.gov
Library of Congress digital archive: maps, photos and manuscripts
- Rijksmuseum
Rijksmuseum · rijksmuseum.nl
Rijksmuseum's collection with high-resolution downloads
Verified 14h agoOpen site - Public-domain finds
The Public Domain Review · publicdomainreview.org
Visual curiosities from the public domain, with essays
Verified 14h agoOpen site - Free culture
Open Culture · openculture.com
Free cultural media: courses, audiobooks and films
Verified 14h agoOpen site - MIT courses
MIT OpenCourseWare · ocw.mit.edu
MIT OpenCourseWare with free lecture notes and problem sets
Listen
Radio, decades and genres — sound as another kind of map.
- World radio
Radio Garden · radio.garden
Spin a globe and tune into radio from any city
- Radio by decade
Radiooooo · radiooooo.com
Pick a country and a decade, hear the radio of that era
Verified 14h agoOpen site - Genre map
Every Noise at Once · everynoise.com
Lay every music genre out on a map and preview them
- Music experiments
Chrome Music Lab · musiclab.chromeexperiments.com
Small experiments that visualize rhythm, pitch and harmony
Verified 14h agoOpen site - Music basics
Learning Music · learningmusic.ableton.com
Ableton's browser music lessons where you click to hear rhythm and chords
Verified 14h agoOpen site - Synth basics
Learning Synths · learningsynths.ableton.com
An interactive tutorial on synth waveforms and envelopes from scratch
Verified 14h agoOpen site - Wikipedia in sound
Listen to Wikipedia · listen.hatnote.com
Wikipedia edits turned into sound in real time
Verified 14h agoOpen site
