I always enjoy getting some perspective on my own life by seeing it from different angles. You know, when you crouch down in your bedroom and look under the furniture, sometimes it looks like a whole different world populated by all the things you thought you had lost. Pretty sure there are books written with that as the launching point, actually.
The point is, it's worth looking where you normally don't and refreshing yourself on what's out there. Here are a few of the rarer views to start.