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The BBC site Dimensions (with the url howbigreally.com) takes well known objects and extents (e.g. the moon, floods in Pakistan) and projects their geometry onto a map. This provides an interesting way to help understand our world - both natural and manmade.
Here's an example : the moon versus Australia.
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