Wonders of Street View: weird website review & sites like it

Wonders of Street View is a curated tour of oddities spotted by Google's camera cars, presented one at a time on a clean map-and-photo interface. You get things like unusual buildings, people in strange costumes and scenes that make you wonder what the photographer thought of the day. Each stop is a real Street View location.

Browse them in order, or hit the Random button for a surprise. It is a reminder that the camera car sees everything, including the things that look staged but were not.

It is part of Neal Agarwal's neal.fun collection and works on phones, though a bigger screen helps. Plan on about five minutes, or longer if you start to wander off along the roads. A good fit for anyone who likes maps, travel or simply enjoys the weirder parts of the real world.

Tips for getting the most out of it

Use the Random button when you want a surprise.
Take your time with each stop; the details are the joke.
A larger screen shows more detail.

Questions about Wonders of Street View

What is Wonders of Street View?

It is a curated collection of strange and wonderful places found on Google Street View. You can browse them in order or jump to a random one, and look around each location as you would in Street View. You can find it at neal.fun, and odd-sites.com lists it as a five-minute visit.

Do the Wonders of Street View locations change?

They are a curated list rather than a live feed, so the set of stops is chosen by the creator. The scenes themselves come from Google Street View imagery, which Google can update over time. We check the link daily, so you can see whether it is still alive.