(Man, it's amazing how hard it is to find some of these images...)
The Earth as seen from Voyager 1: stolen from NASA/JPL/CalTech.
The Western Hemisphere from satellite radar altimetry:
North America from a weather satellite (also stolen from NASA).
California:
This next map has been viciously stolen from the US National Imagery and Mapping Agency (ya, yet another military orginaziation: www.nima.mil). That big, huge, yellow splotch in the top center is San Fransisco.