A Vagabondish post tipped us off on the latest happenings at Flickr: the introduction of the Flickr Places feature. Since the photo-sharing site put up a particularly neat map of the world, the Flickr gang is quite excited about letting us travel the world through photographs submitted by people everywhere.

Basically, because members geotag their pictures, you can search for a location on Flickr Places and be taken to see all the snaps that have been taken there. Search for Rockefeller Center, for example, and Flickr will zoom in and pull up pictures of the Christmas tree and ice skating.

The front page of Places has an ever-rotating pick of six different places around the world, and you can pick the places that interest you and find out what there is to see there. It's bit of desktop travel that's perfect for daydreaming between vacations.

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It's Monday, so you probably don't want to work your brain too hard. We'll help you out: Check out this roster of strange monuments across the world. It's enough weird sculpture to keep you scractching your head for at least the rest of the day. While it's tempting to pick the giant thumb as our favorite, we kind of like the Slovakian photographer the best. Mostly, we wish these pictures were issued as a series of trading cards--that'd be a great way to scare small children and get your travel chuckles at the same time.
 
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Sorry, we can't resist those stylish Europeans. Especially when they are Finns in need of some droogs! O, my brothers, HEL Looks is real horrorshow. Viddy well!  Sorry, we'll stop.

HEL Looks is a site, like Still in Berlin, that chronicles Helsinki street fashion. Remember, they've got a small window of time when they don't have to cut open a seal and wear it for warmth over there, which makes their fashion choices all the more impressive, we think.

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A great tradition in travel is the postcard. Send it to friends and family or hold onto them for a record of what you've seen. It's like having a official snapshot of a vacation. Or proof of being a "boob inspector".

But they are also records of a time and place. Photographer and Filmmaker Julien Donada is what we'll call a postcard archeologist. He visits the places pictured in old postcards and documents the changes in the same frame of the photo. This has taken him to California, Bulgaria, Paris, and Instanbul, to name a few.

We just can't wait till he finds a postcard from Las Vegas sixty years ago. Nary a buffet in sight!

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Boss Tweed has a great set of New York City photos that have been featured around the web.

The photo above is of 25 Fifth Avenue beween 9th & 10th streets.

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Communism is all about sharing, right?

[image via KennethInShanghai]

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He recommends making other people comfortable when catching them with your lens- "People will open up to you if they realize you really like them, and that will come through in the photo."

One of Blaine's pics is featured above-check out his site for more...

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