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One of my favorite sites for killing time studying geography is Google Sightseeing. Created by James and Alex Turnbull of Edinburgh, Scotland in 2005, Google Sightseeing highlights the most fantastic things to see on the satellite photographs of Google Earth.
Besides the featured shot of the day, there are lots of articles worth browsing. One showed some of the fictitious characters that slipped into the shot when the Google trucks hit the UK. If you look closely at the photo above, you can see Paddington Bear waving to passersby, not far from Paddington Station.
Another article describes nail houses -- homes belonging to people who refuse to move to make way for newer development. The house on the right was used for publicity for the movie Up.
For offline viewing, the blog has spawned a book called Off the Map: The Most Amazing Sights on Earth as Seen by Satellite. Check it out!
