There should be a name for this.

I live in a geographically interesting area, and the region offers many vistas for a variety of perspectives. But I'll see a building I usually see from street level and swear it should be further over thataway. But maybe it's a different building, just looks like the one I'm thinking of? And why can we see the campus Christmas tree from across town, even though it's behind two towering dormatories? Without the lit tree there, I'd have never known it was possible to see through solid brick buildings.