Should anyone else have the same question, here are the links.

After a transaction is announced to other nodes but prior to it being included in a block, the unconfirmed transaction will be visible from the Bitcoin Charts website:
  http://bitcoincharts.com/bitcoin

Once a miner includes the transaction in a block, then Block Explorer can be used to show the transaction:
  http://blockexplorer.com

  Wiki article: http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Block_Explorer