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Radio Garden puts thousands of live stations on an interactive map. It is useful as a radio player, but the real appeal is being able to move from a familiar city to somewhere you know nothing about in seconds.
Same Energy is for the moment when you can recognise the image you need but cannot describe it. Start with a picture or a broad visual category, then move through related images by similarity rather than keywords.
WindowSwap shows submitted window views from homes around the world. The videos are deliberately uneventful: weather, traffic, birds, neighbours and the sound of a room continuing somewhere else.
The Public Domain Review is an editorial project devoted to unusual works from art, literature and the history of ideas. It combines careful essays with image collections drawn from material that is free of known copyright restrictions.
Are.na lets you save images, links, files and text into channels that can remain private or connect with other people’s collections. It feels closer to a shared notebook or studio wall than a conventional social feed.
Neal.fun is a growing collection of projects that explain an idea by letting you interact with it. Some are games, some are visual essays, and some are difficult to classify beyond “this belongs in a browser.”
Marginalia Search deliberately favours small, text-heavy and independent websites over the pages that dominate conventional search results. It is one of the clearest ways to look beyond the commercial web without relying on a random-site button.
Wiby searches a deliberately compact index of lightweight pages that resemble the early personal web: hobby sites, essays, collections and small projects with little interest in growth hacking.
Cloudhiker maintains a large catalogue of unusual websites and turns it into a guided random walk. Categories and community ratings add enough structure to avoid the dead-link feeling of older random-web projects.
Earth Nullschool turns global forecast and observation datasets into a fluid, explorable globe. Wind becomes moving particles, while overlays reveal temperature, ocean currents, waves and atmospheric chemistry.
MapCrunch drops you into a random Google Street View location and removes the need to decide where to go first. Geographic filters can keep the journey within a country or region when completely random travel is too broad.
Radiooooo presents recorded music as a map and timeline. Choose a country, select a decade and let the station move through tracks associated with that place and period.