50 legendary internet rabbit holes you can spend hours exploring👇
1.
zoom.earth — Watch the world via live satellite imagery
2.
flightradar24.com — See every plane currently in the sky
3.
marinetraffic.com — Track all ships at sea in real time
4.
windy.com — Live map of winds and storms
5.
lightningmaps.org — Watch lightning strikes hitting Earth in real time
6.
earthquake.usgs.gov — Live list of recent earthquakes
7.
submarinecablemap.com — Ocean cables carrying the internet
8.
globalforestwatch.org — Watch forests disappear from space
9.
worldometers.info — The world's statistics, second by second
10.
internetlivestats.com — Current number of tweets and searches being posted
11.
thetruesize.com — Compare the true sizes of countries
12.
oldmapsonline.org — Maps from centuries ago
13.
davidrumsey.com — Archive of 150,000 historical maps
14.
openstreetmap.org — World map drawn by volunteers
15.
window-swap.com — Look out the window of a random person around the world
16.
virtualvacation.us — Virtual walks through cities
17.
mapcrunch.com — Teleport to a random spot on Earth
18.
atlasobscura.com — Catalog of the world's strangest places
19.
neal.fun — Interactive knowledge experiences
20.
htwins.net/scale2 — Scale journey from atom to universe (Updated HTML5 link)
21.
eyes.nasa.gov — Explore the solar system in 3D
22.
stellarium-web.org — Real sky map in your browser
23.
apod.nasa.gov — NASA's astronomy picture of the day
24.
images.nasa.gov — NASA's entire visual archive, free
25.
pudding.cool — Visual articles told through data
26.
ourworldindata.org — The state of the world with real data
27.
gapminder.org — What we mistakenly think we know about the world
28.
informationisbeautiful.net — Visualizing complex data
29.
data.worldbank.org — World Bank's open data
30.
data.tuik.gov.tr — Turkey's official statistics database
31.
archive.org — Archive of millions of books, films, and software
32.
gutenberg.org — 70,000 free books whose copyrights have expired
33.
openlibrary.org — Record of every book in the world
34.
loc.gov — U.S. Library of Congress digital archive
35.
europeana.eu — Europe's cultural heritage archive
36.
dp.la — America's digital library collection
37.
artsandculture.google.com — Tour museums from home
38.
rijksmuseum.nl — Download artworks in high resolution
39.
wikiart.org — Archive of 250,000 artworks
40.
publicdomainreview.org — Forgotten visual treasures of history
41.
openculture.com — Free archive of culture and education
42.
metmuseum.org — Met Museum's open collection
43.
musicmap.info — Family tree of music genres
44.
radiooooo.com — Pick a country and decade to listen to that era
45.
listen.hatnote.com — Turn Wikipedia edits into audio
46.
wikipedia.org — Random knowledge well
47.
timeanddate.com — Time, sunrises, and sky events
48.
sciencedaily.com — Live stream of science news
49.
arxiv.org — Free preprints of scientific papers
50.
observablehq.com — Visualize data with live code
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