I just come around to this with the chrome extension that shows interesting places on the new tab in Chrome. Really Really interesting - more than the classic cule de sac.
btw: the extension is called Earth view from Google Maps
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/earth-view-from-google-ma/bhloflhklmhfpedakmangadcdofhnnoh
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