Everyone's come across them... some interesting story or place related to an image that either Street View or Earth picked up.

Or just interesting images, like this:

http://www.noupe.com/photography/40-bizarre-and-cool-google-earth-photos.html

This was just posted on reddit:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=16.864882,11.953737&num=1&t=h&z=17

And here's the story behind Flight 272:

http://imgur.com/a/2BpKA#DIOeeUo

Edit: After having just watched Chernobyl Diaries two weeks ago, this one on ghost town Pripyat, Russia is also trippy:

http://googlesightseeing.com/2009/10/ghost-town-prypiat-ukraine/