How about the Eiffel Tower?  Crop Circles? 

You can do all of these things and even more with a site called Flash Earth.  It’s part of a larger site called Neave.  Besides being able to explore the planet from near or far, you can go to other amazing activities like Planetarium where you can explore the night sky and its constellations.

With Anaglyph you can create 3-D drawings. They look better with those red and blue 3-D glasses, but the site is really cool even without the glasses.

There are many other great “time wasters.”  FYI, though…. you’ll need the latest Flash Player, so be ready to download it if you haven’t updated your computer yet.

If you’re into escape games and other puzzle-type online games, try Bonte Games.  You’ll lose yourself for hours in this site. 

Some of the games are designed by Bart Bonte who says:

“I’m living in Aalter, Belgium and next to keeping you updated on my bonte games, I bring you links to new web games, point and click games, handy web tools and other interesting webstuff.”

It’s the work of Jan Duursema.  

Jan is well known for her artwork which appears in numerous comic book series including Dark Horse Comics’ Star Wars Comics, and Marvel Comics. Some of her more famous characters include The Incredible Hulk, Spider Man, Wolverine, X-Factor as well as in DC Comics’ Hawkman, Wonderwoman and others. She was the creator of Denin and Vila from Naldar, the Twi’lek Jedi Aayla Secura and the Kiffar Jedi Quinlan Vos. She often works with John Ostrander.