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Look out of a stranger's window somewhere else in the world for as long as you like, then swap to another one.
World Windows sits in Armchair Travel under Wander, and we have it filed as coffee break — five to fifteen minutes of proper attention. It reads as calming and mesmerising.
Street-view wandering, city walks, live webcams and the small miracle of standing on a road eight thousand kilometres away for free.
The largest archive of 360 panoramas anywhere, pinned to a world map and free to browse, covering plenty of places no Street View car reached.
Dashcam footage of a city loop with the local radio playing over it, so you can drive slowly through Istanbul while answering email.
Thousands of public webcams pointed at squares, harbours, volcanoes and building sites, some with archives stretching back decades.
The game that made the genre: dropped into Street View, guess where on the globe you are. The free tier is thin these days.
The whole planet in 3D in a browser tab, with guided Voyager tours for when you would rather be told where to look than choose.
Drops you on a random road somewhere on Earth in Street View and leaves you to work out where you are, or simply wander off down it.
Street-level photography stitched together from volunteers' dashcams and phones, covering a great many roads no Google car ever drove down.
A free street-view guessing game with unlimited rounds, built for people unwilling to pay a monthly subscription to look at roads.