The WorldWidePanorama is a huge gallery of panoramic images that keep being built from the contributions of more than one thousand photographers all around the world – amateurs and professionals alike. More panoramas are added every quarter, and every quarter has its own theme.
Another “world view” can be found at The World Wide Panorama, a project originally sponsored by the Geography Computing Facility at the University of California Berkeley.
Don’t forget about the Cloud (portal.gplates.org). Virtual globes show Earth as it is today while others allow reconstructions through geological time 1.1 billion years ago!