A list of unusual websites for those who are bored

Tired of the news and your social media feed no longer pleases you? There are places on the internet where you can easily spend an entire evening without ever opening social networks. Here you can listen to a radio station on the other side of the planet, watch sharks and bears, ride through the streets of an unfamiliar city, observe changes on Earth over decades, and try to spend imaginary billions.

We have updated our collection of unusual websites: removed outdated projects, fixed addresses, and added new fun. All sites are grouped by theme, and each has a short hint on where to start. Choose a theme based on your mood—and you might be surprised how many unusual things are hidden on the internet!

Money and incredible scales

1. Spend 100 billion dollars

Spend Bill Gates' Money is a game where you have hypothetical $100 billion. You can buy hamburgers, cars, yachts, and football clubs, watching your balance decrease. It's a playful sum, not an up-to-date estimate of Bill Gates's wealth.

Try it: buy one of each of the most expensive items and see how much money remains.

2. See wealth to scale

Wealth, Shown to Scale is an unusual visualization where one pixel represents one thousand dollars. Just start scrolling the page to feel the difference between a million and a billion.

The project uses historical wealth estimates from around 2020, not current data.

Try it: scroll the page to the right and see how long it takes to reach the end of the visualization.

3. Look at a million-dollar museum of the internet

The Million Dollar Homepage is a page where British student Alex Tew sold advertising pixels for one dollar each in 2005. The result resembles a bright mosaic of the early commercial internet.

Try it: examine the advertising images and guess which of these companies still exist today. You don't need to click on old advertising links: some domains have long changed owners.

Travel and unusual cameras

4. Peek into someone else's window

WindowSwap is a collection of views from windows of people living in different corners of the world. One window overlooks a quiet courtyard, another—a busy street or the sea. Part of the collection is free, with additional features available by subscription.

Try it: turn on the sound and listen to the life of an unfamiliar city for a few minutes.

5. Ride through an unfamiliar city with local radio

Drive & Listen features video drives through streets of various cities around the world. You can listen to local radio stations at the same time and feel like a passenger watching the city from the window.

Try it: choose a city you have never visited and don't change the radio station for at least ten minutes.

6. Watch a city live

EarthCam is a catalog of webcams from city squares, beaches, and popular attractions. The selection of streams depends on the availability of specific cameras.

Try it: open Times Square in New York when it's evening there.

7. Watch Beatles fans

Abbey Road Crossing Cam is a camera at the famous pedestrian crossing near Abbey Road Studios in London. This is where The Beatles took the photo for the cover of the album of the same name.

Try it: count how many passersby try to recreate the famous shot within five minutes.

8. See a 125-year-old light bulb

Centennial Bulb is a website with the history of a light bulb that has been burning almost continuously since 1901 at a fire station in Livermore, California. In June 2026, it marked its 125th anniversary. The site has a dedicated BulbCam page.

Try it: look at the image of the bulb and compare its lifespan to your home light bulbs.

9. Stroll through a museum without buying a ticket

Google Arts & Culture offers artworks, exhibitions, and virtual tours of museums worldwide. Ukrainian collections are also among the available materials.

Try it: find a museum with a virtual route and walk through its halls without closing the browser.

10. Watch wild animals

Explore.org Live Cams features wildlife cameras: from brown bears to birds at nests and sea creatures. Some streams are seasonal.

Try it: find an active camera at a river with bears or a bird's nest and watch for a few minutes.

The planet in real time

11. Track a plane over the ocean

Flightradar24 is a map of aircraft for which tracking data is available. You can see the flight route, aircraft type, and other details. Not every plane appears on the map.

Try it: click on a plane over the Atlantic and find out where it's flying from and to.

12. See how ships move

MarineTraffic is a map of vessels in seas, straits, and ports. The completeness and freshness of data depend on reception zones and information sources.

Try it: zoom in on the Bosporus or Suez Canal and see how many vessels pass through the narrow waterway.

13. Follow a real shark

OCEARCH Shark Tracker is an interactive map of movements of tagged sharks and other marine animals. Coordinates appear as signals from transmitters are received, so it's not a continuous live broadcast.

Try it: pick a shark and trace its route over several months.

14. See how wind flows around the Earth

Earth Nullschool is an animated globe showing weather parameters, winds, and ocean currents. The map lets you switch between different data layers.

Try it: go from air flows to ocean currents and find the Gulf Stream.

15. Find out where the Earth shook today

GEOFON is a service by the GFZ research center providing information about earthquakes worldwide, including recent events.

Try it: see how many earthquakes have been registered in the last 24 hours and find the closest one to your region.

16. Look at tomorrow evening's sky

Stellarium Web is an online planetarium with stars, constellations, and planets. You can choose your location and observation time.

Try it: set your city, move the time forward a few hours, and see which planets will be visible above the horizon.

Music and unusual sounds

17. Listen to the radio from the other side of the world

Radio Garden is a rotating globe with radio stations from different countries. Pick a spot on the map and hear the local broadcast.

Try it: find a small island in the Pacific Ocean and see what radio stations are available there.

18. Work to air traffic controllers' conversations

Listen to the Clouds is an unusual audio mix of available air traffic control radio conversations and calm electronic music. It does not broadcast all airports worldwide.

Try it: play the site in the background and listen while working.

19. Listen to the music of your parents' childhood

Radiooooo is a musical time machine: choose a country and decade, and the service picks records from that era. Some features are paid.

Try it: pick the country and decade in which your parents were born.

20. Understand where modern music came from

Musicmap is a large interactive map of the history and relationships of popular music genres with examples.

Try it: start with blues and follow branches toward rock and electronic music.

21. Turn on a virtual cat

Purrli is a generator of cat purring with sound character settings. It's suitable for those who need an unusual sound background for concentration.

Try it: set the purr of a sleepy cat as if it settled in your lap.

History, science, and space

22. Learn the real sizes of countries

The True Size Of is an interactive map where you can drag outlines of countries and see their sizes without the usual map projection distortions.

Try it: move Greenland to Africa, and Ukraine to Western Europe.

23. Watch how the Earth has changed over decades

Google Earth Timelapse is a satellite animation of changes to the Earth's surface since 1984. It particularly shows the growth of cities, construction, and landscape transformation.

Try it: find Dubai or Las Vegas and watch how the city has changed.

24. Go back to the internet of twenty years ago

Wayback Machine is an archive of web page snapshots from different years. Not all sites and not all page elements are preserved, but sometimes you can see long-gone versions of familiar resources.

Try it: enter kurs.com.ua and open the earliest available archived copy.

25. Find out when a word became trendy

Google Books Ngram Viewer is a tool for comparing word frequencies in digitized books across different years. The chart reflects Google's book corpus, not all human speech.

Try it: compare the English words telephone and computer across the 20th century.

26. Examine Mars in high resolution

HiRISE features images of Mars' surface taken by the HiRISE camera, developed under the direction of the University of Arizona and installed on NASA's orbiter.

Try it: find images of sand dunes and gullies—some look like abstract paintings.

Games and internet madness

27. Descend to the very bottom of the ocean

The Deep Sea is an interactive dive into the ocean depths. As you scroll, creatures from different depths appear.

Try it: scroll all the way to the bottom and see how many creatures you meet along the way.

28. Create anything from four elements

Infinite Craft is a game where you combine elements to get increasingly unexpected combinations. From simple elements you can get objects, characters, and entire worlds.

Try it: set a goal to get the word "money" and find a chain of combinations.

29. Invent the most impossible password

The Password Game is a game that first asks you to create a normal password, then makes increasingly absurd demands.

Try it: get to the chess task without peeking at the solution.

30. Draw so badly that the neural network still guesses

Quick, Draw! is a Google experiment: you have 20 seconds to draw a given object, and the system tries to recognize your drawing.

Try it: deliberately draw sloppily and see how quickly the algorithm guesses the object.

31. Find a forgotten video on YouTube

Astronaut is a project that shows random recently uploaded YouTube videos, usually without descriptive titles and with almost no views.

Try it: don't immediately skip the first incomprehensible video—sometimes that's the most interesting one.

32. Press the button of nonsense

The Useless Web is a simple button that sends you to a random strange or useless website. The quality and availability of the landing pages may vary.

Try it: click ten times and choose the most absurd result.

33. Endlessly go deeper into a painting

Zoomquilt is an unusual animation where one fantastic scene continuously morphs into the next. It feels like the viewer is endlessly flying into a painting.

Try it: open it full screen and just watch the transitions between worlds for a few minutes.

The internet is much bigger than the usual news sites and social networks. Sometimes the best way to distract yourself is to open a completely unfamiliar page and allow yourself a bit of curiosity.

Save this collection: it's convenient to come back to when you want something unexpected—from a virtual trip to an unusual science experiment or a game for a few minutes.

Updated October 19, 2026.