- 17776, “What Football Will Look Like in the Future”
A very normal story about the future of American football.
- 20020, “The Future of College Football”
The very normal sequel to the previous entry.
- All Around Nevada
As the title suggests, explore all around the state of Nevada (and a few other places) with this collection of panoramas and virtual tours.
- Apple Search: The Search for "Lost" Heritage Apples
Follow one man’s journey to find heritage apple varieties and keep them from going extinct.
Archive of Our Own and Wattpad
Fanfiction (and some original works) galore!
- Astronaut
Drift between recently posted YouTube videos, all with undescriptive titles and almost zero views…
- Awkward Zombie
Katie Tiedrich’s webcomic about video games that’s actually about video games.
- Bogleech.com
The website of the insidious Bogleech themself, full of grossly grotesque horror, comedy, and horror comedy. Explore the RPG setting of Mortasheen, read the Awful Hospital webcomic, look at… Pokemon reviews, and more.
- “But can it run Doom?”
Welp. AO3 can apparently run Doom.
- Cameron’s World
Scroll through a big collage of images found on old GeoCities pages.
- Death in Diorama
In the 1940’s, a woman by the name of Frances Glessner Lee built a series of dioramas titled: “The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death.” This site tells the history of Lee and the impact she had on forensics, and it also includes interactive versions of 4 of Lee’s dioramas for you to explore. Keep in mind that these are not puzzles with solutions to be found, they are simply exercises to teach investigators how to identify potential evidence. (Note: These may be dioramas, but they’re dioramas that depict death scenes in incredible detail. They may be a bit graphic, so view at your own risk.)
- End Poem
The entirety of Julian Gough’s “End Poem,” formatting and all. Technically it was originally written for the ending of Minecraft, but it’s now fully in the public domain. Now it’s just the “End Poem.”
- EXP TV
A live 24/7 channel of old, odd, and obscure media! This stuff gets weird.
- Going to Weather
A nautical 1840s ghost story about a landsman, second mate, and captain at sea on the whaleship Valor. This webcomic updates monthly.
- If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel
A pretty accurate (perhaps too accurate) scale model of the solar system, where the entire scale is based on the moon being the size of 1 pixel.
- It Eats Planets
A gritty sci-fi webcomic that seems pretty cool so far. (Note: it’s very gory in places and very nude in others. The website is also a tad bit eye-straining.)
- Jolley Comics
Comics, art, and short stories by Sarah Jolley, creator of comics such as The Property of Hate, Duck Doodle Comics, and Doctor Who: Into the Inkwell. HIGHLY recommend the Doctor Who comic and the Great God Grove comics if you’re into either of those things.
- Lackadaisy
Tracy J. Butler’s webcomic about gangster cats in Prohibition-era St. Louis. The comic does end unfinished after 174 issues (because it’s being adapted into an animated web series!!!), but it’s still absolutely worth the read.
- LaStill
LaStill is the 2046 industry standard of tools manufacturing! What? It’s not 2046 yet? Uh…don’t worry about that. Just join the waiting list and perhaps explore the website while you wait for your tools.
- Livermore’s Centennial Light Bulb
Webpage of the world’s longest-burning light bulb. The website itself has a lovely old internet charm to it, and among other things, you can watch a webcam of the lightbulb in action (and since it’s lit in a California fire station, you might catch the firefighters up to something as well.)
- MapCrunch
Get dropped into random neat places on Google Street View.
- Monterey Bay Aquarium Live Cams
See what some of the animals at the Monterey Bay Aquarium are up to in a wide array of live cams set up in the enclosures! All cams run from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Pacific time, with occasional narrated feedings at the times designated on the live cam.
- Museum of Failure
Read about the histories of failed products and innovations.
- MyRetroTVs
Channel surf through six decades' worth of retro TV and music.
- Offline Church
A short experience that only works on a mobile phone in airplane mode. Also, yes there’s religious iconography but the experience itself is not religious in nature.
- Pineapple Willy’s Beach Cam
Ever wonder what’s going on at the beach? Check out not just one, but two webcam feeds at Panama City Beach, FL! (these are set up by/at a restaurant on the beach, btw; it’s not just some random person with a camera.)
- Project Gutenberg
Free, public domain eBooks, baby! Use them for school, use them for research, use them for fun, use them for pretty much whatever.
- San Francisco FogCam
Originally set up as a student project, this webcam on San Francisco State University's campus is the world’s oldest running webcam feed. It’s mostly here for its historical significance, as the feed updates every 20 seconds, but it is interesting to check in every now and again to see if anything interesting is going on.
- Silken Flame
A cute little wordpress blog about vintage Barbie stuff. I really like mid-century fashion, so if you’re into that, mid-century graphic design, or just Barbie herself, I recommend checking this one out.
- The Courier’s Guide to the Mojave Wasteland
Cosplayer and Fallout aficionado Kate Aces travels to real-world locations around the Fallout: New Vegas map. Learn about the places you know and love and check out some pretty cool cosplay.
- Space Jam Website
November 15, 1996. The classic Looney Tunes movie “Space Jam” is released. To promote it, a website full of activities for kids to explore is created. Decades later, the website is somehow still up in all its old internet glory. Come on and slam, dear user, and welcome to the jam.
cc - The Nicest Place on the Internet
Feelin’ down? Stop by the nicest place on the internet for a seemingly endless stream of virtual hugs from folks all around the world.
- The Pitch Drop Experiment
Running since 1927, the University of Queensland’s pitch drop experiment was made to prove that pitch is, in fact, a liquid. To date, only 9 drops have fallen, but the university has set up a webcam pointed at the experiment to catch when the 10th drop finally falls. Luckily for you, this webcam is freely available to view online!
- The SCP Foundation
An absolutely massive collaborative writing project wiki about the SCP Foundation, a clandestine organization that identifies, studies, and contains anomalous beings that don’t follow the laws of nature and threaten the sanity of humanity as we know it. SCP articles are written in a pseudo-academic format and are usually considered horror writing, but there’s an entire section of the wiki dedicated to joke articles (and since I’m a bit of a scaredy cat, the joke articles are where I spend most of my SCP time.)
- The Wanderers’ Library
Another massive collaborative writing project wiki, this time centering around a pocket dimension library that contains every book that’s ever been, will be, and never be written. The general tone of the website is far more magical and whimsical than the scientific horror vibes of the SCP Foundation (its sister site.)
- “Try to Find Your Way Out of My Wizard Maze” UQuiz
I didn’t want to put UQuiz itself on here for reasons, but I’m making an exception for this. The Wizard Maze UQuiz is not a quiz… It’s an experience. So, can you find your way out of the wizard maze?
- TV Tropes
Get lost reading about tropes in the all-devouring pop culture wiki!
- Watching Grass Grow
Another webcam livestream for the list. This is exactly what it sounds like; one “Mr. Grass” put up a webcam facing their yard for you to watch the grass grow (and any other yard-related shenanigans that may occur!)
Welcome Home and AwayFromPryingEyes
A multimedia horror project following the search for a forgotten 70s puppet show called “Welcome Home.” The first link belongs to the in-universe Welcome Home Restoration Project and is mostly full of charming WH media they’ve found, while the second link belongs to someone named W and documents WH-related anomalies they’ve run into. (Note: Both sites occasionally go down for updates. If that happens, wait a few days and then try again.)
- Where We Parked
Sure, I’ll put an entire podcast here. Listen to Kevin Perjurer (of Defunctland fame) and Jack (from Theme Parks Shouldn’t Exist) talk about the nicheist, sometimes only tangentially theme park-related topics. (Person of the Century and 50’s Prime Time Café are my favorite episodes so far.)
- Ƿicipǣdia
It’s just good old Wikipedia! Well…except for the fact that everything is written in Old English.
- Wikitok
Discover random Wikipedia pages in a format similar to a TikTok feed.