A professor of mine introduced me to GeoGuessr by using the game in place of our final exam. It's based on the images of places all around the world taken by the Google Earth cameras. So if you love to wander aimlessly on Google Earth, exploring neighborhoods and far off places, this is exactly the game for you! In addition to the internet version, there is also an app. You can play with or without a time limit, or you can even play with a group of people who are online at the same time. You must use your surroundings to guess not only the country that you are in, but even down to the street you're viewing. The closer you guess to your actual location, the more points you get!

I love this game for so many reasons, one of which is that I'm a broke college student and mom, and there is no way I will ever be able to travel to all the places I want to go in my lifetime. I plan to make some trips abroad in the future, but for now I can play GeoGuessr and dip my toes in the lake of world culture even when I am not actually present. In a single set of challenges, you can choose to see any country in the world, or you can narrow it down by continent or country. Thanks to GeoGuessr I've been to several countries that speak foreign languages and actually learned some foreign phrases in my quest to find my location.

So I wanted to share with you some of these fantastic locations. Each of these images is an actual screenshot of the game, so there will be some blurry patches and extraneous information.

1. One of the Pitcairn Islands

2. Mountain pass near Beatenberg, Switzerland

3. Saline Royale d'Arc-et-Senans, France

4. Pine Lake, Wood Buffalo National Park, Alberta, Canada

5. Tomb of Pori Bibi, Bangladesh