I have asked several people what their favorite thing in SL is to do, and the answers always vary; Other than looking for romance, many tell me they love to EXPLORE. (not to mention shopping or clubbing)... I have heard things like snow skiing, skydiving, scuba diving, visiting forests, hiking mountain retreats, grottos, museums, awesome beaches and unusual architecture.
So what are some of your favorite places you have you EXPLORED, and where can everyone find them?
I'll start with mine... (Landmark coordinates will be added HERE once I get home from work and go in world to retrieve it)
Greenie’s World, a fanciful larger than life sculpture that made me feel as small as an insect. It’s a labor of love... this sculpture, with uncanny realism... Arriving there, I was intrigued by started out in a crawlspace beneath the house. I actually thought I was in a maze-like cave. There were arrows giving me clues of how to escape the maze below the house, I crawled out and found a door. I entered the door to the house thinking it was a normal sized house... boy was I ever wrong! I felt as though stepping into the wonderland that Alice entered, stunned by the immenseness inside! Understanding who Greenie is will help us to appreciate his POV. Greenie is a very small green alien with a tiny flying saucer. In one corner we find him cornered by the family cat, poised, ready to pounce at any moment upon the mouse sized Greenie. Near the middle of the room we see Greenie in his saucer making a flying leap over a mouse trap, barely escaping its jaws snapping shut. As I walked by this sculpture, I had to look up to take it all in. HUGE is a small word for the size of Greenie’s World, its well worth the visit!
OK, now it’s your turn... let's hear about where you have EXPLORED (not shopping or clubbing)...
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12-12-2007 08:26
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12-12-2007 08:26
Greenies : this is old news though, and you don't have to go there all the time...once or twice, and you've got the jist.
Nexus Prime : a fantastic cyber-punk society and city based on the P.K.Dick book 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep', and the movie that spawned from it, 'Blade Runner.' The detail and size of Nexus Prime is astonishing. Svarga: probably the most wonderful vegetative area in SL. Wonderful foliage and architecture combined. NASA: if you're a space geek at all...you really should check out NASA (and if it's out yet, the MARS EXHIBIT.) Star Trek Museum: again...if you're a geek...this is a must see. Those are a few good ones. Personally, I stay far away from high traffic areas, clubs, or anywhere with extensive camping. There are some amazing places out there...have a look around. Oh, and what's that one where you walk along a skinny path in hell...and there are amazing sculptie statues and stuff all around? Super cool... _____________________
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Sally Silvera
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12-12-2007 08:26
Heya,
This is a list of places that were recommended in a recent thread (or two  ) on this subject:(Thanks to Tex Nasworthy who took the time to compile this list  )Abbott's Aerodrome Acroplis Alcyon Space Yards Alpine Executive Center (ski resort) Amsterdam (if it's still there) ANWAR Rig Avaria Sims (Grendal's Children) Avilion (castle) Bedrock Black Swan Bliss Buddhist Shrine or Varosha Calleta (Arcadia Asylum's Cologen Cathedral Creative Fantasy (business) Crimson Shadow Rezzable Damania Die Hard 4 Dresden Gallery Dublin Ebuddy Rezzable (Carnival of Doom) Effulgent Brown (homes) Endless Destruction Everwind Furnation Gaxaly Dream Greenies Hanging Gardens of Babylon Hoini (Arabian Nights, Egyptian Palace, Anubia) Hollywood IBM sims Inspire Spacepark Intemptesta Nox International Spaceflight Museum Isle Wyrms Ivory Tower of Prims Kowloon Kyoto Bakumatsi Labyrinth in Hell (maze) Little Philadelphia Madcow Cosmos's skeleton scupltures Midnight Reflections Misty Acres Mocha Cathedral Movix Media Sim Musical Ice Caves Nagasaki Bakumatsi Nexus Prime Palace at Versailles Paris 1900 Port Caledon Port Seraphine Rua Sanctum Sanctorum Scotland Secret Reflections Secret Reflections Serenity Gardens Shona (free box of LM's at ArchTx Edo's store) Sistine Chapel SL Botanical Gardens SS Galaxy (cruise ship?) Staflett HQ at Galaxy Straylight Suffugeum Svarga Temple of Apollo (Lost Gardens) The Abyss The Wasteland Toxic Gardens Transformers Tromp Loeil Tusk Tusk Venezia Verloren (Kasteel Veroren) Virtual Bruges Wales Wolf Mountain (resort) You´d find them by typing the name in search _____________________
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12-12-2007 08:27
Wow...now THAT'S a list.
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12-12-2007 08:40
Can I add The Future to that, even if only for the Crooked House?
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Thanks Sally!!!
12-12-2007 08:41
WOW!!! I'm glad I didn't kill this (old news) post...heh heh heh! Thanks Sally...(that Girl must LOVE exploring!)
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12-12-2007 08:42
The greenies were cool. I like the one laying on the kitchen table listening to and watching an Ipod.
Does anyone have the Landmark or coordinates for Alcyon Space Yards? I have done searches and perhaps it is misspelled or gone missing. Thanks, "G" _____________________
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12-12-2007 08:44
WOW!!! I'm glad I didn't kill this (old news) post...heh heh heh! Thanks Sally...(that Girl must LOVE exploring!) I do actually, but haven´t been to many of those places yet  That list was compiled by Tex from responses in another thread, I just saved it for future reference  Yumi, any new ones that pop up now I´ll happily add to my saved version _____________________
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12-12-2007 08:57
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/327/c1/226064/1.html I pull up this list of places to explore that I keep on a notecard on my desktop and add to when I read about interesting places in the Forums. Here is what's on it c urrently, this is mostly places I have not already seen. I have a freebie box of landmarks at my store in shona full of the places you should see. ------------------------------------------------ EXPLORE ------------------------------------------------- Rezzable Hallucinogen Port Seraphine Nomasha Syaka Wheatfield by AM Radio Tableau Kowloon St. Francis Basilica Caledon Skycity Whispering Rocks Public Park Morocco midian city Kenzie Milk, Sedig Boathouse, Sedig (117, 103, 21) toyota dresden gallery serenity woods hobo village in Calleta. Victorianna Castle in Hogback. Commonwealth Island and check out the geyser. EGO Terra Livingtree (I'm proud of it). Kowloon - asian Relay For Life sims - Kazuhiro Aridian's avatars in Saijo City, - The Wastelands - This mostly a post-apocalyptic residential/RP area, but the lengths to which residents here will customize their avatars are extensive. Appropriate to the far future post-apocalyptic setting, technology is blended with wear and tear in many cases. Think Mad Max, Fallout, Judge Dredd, Tank Girl, et al. -Mood Indigo club ? Virtual Hallucinations', located at Sedig (23,43) solar system Euclidia 201, 39, 602 visit Club vibe visit tusk Maximilian Milosz Darklife Builders, DarkLife, Navora (43, 36, 25) Everwind RP sim ---Elements ---Sinners Paradise ---At Ralgus Studios at Inverlock (214,116) ---Pru Xingjian elven sky home ---Bizarre Berry BERRY'S BAZAAR! ---- idea city has tutorials ---check out Menu Bar Memorial Houses in SL ---Servant's of Lolth~dark elves, Grahica (184, 66, 26) ---Provincetown ---autodesk ---Sanctum Sanctorum, and castle Ulrichsburg on the sim Frisch ---Kennedy House at Republic Bay in Plush Altstadt ---Nakama ----sim FuturePerfect. Built by Luna Bliss, ---Clubs recommended Hot Licks, Blue Note, Dusty's, ---romantic places Faeria Village in Huin Venice Campanile on Dragon island at sunset. Avilion Mist Cocololo Island and Midsomer Isle ---Most beautuful places-------- Damania Avilion Grove. Lost Furest at Sables d'Alliez Zimmer Midsomer Isle Lake Gnoma d'Alliez Caribbean Escapes, Nohona Isle Numenor lord of the rings sim --oasis of the nine wells.. its a more desert gorean sim ---Pick Your Own Magic Mushrooms for 10L$ each from Burandt (205, 137, 110) its a trip! ---Cult Furniture I have oodles of links on my site! http://rachel-serendipity.blogspot.com/ Machinima * Susi Machinima Gallery Places - The Dark Side * Carnival of Doom * Alien Museum * Toxic Garden * Sleepy Hollow School * Devil's Labyrinth * Liquid Heat Haunted Cave Places to Explore * Home of the all Metaverse Sportscar * Surfline Epic * Surfline Aloha * Surfline Hang * The Cannery * HatHead * The City of LagNmoore * Icarus * Isle of Tranquility * Oil Rig * Rezzable Hallucinogen * Ben and Jerrys * Isle of Wyrms * Grendel's Children * Elven Glen * Sanctum Sanctorum * Transformers - The Movie * Literature Factory * Imtemptesta Nox * Riverwalk * Silverscreen * Babbage Square * Bollywood * Lauks Nest * The Rainforest Places for Fun * Abbotts Aerodrome * Bedrock * Flossberg Studio's, Hollywood CA * Greenies Home * I Am Legend * Igbo Karting Speedway * Imaginenation * Misty Acres * Mooz!! * Pot Healer's Adventure * Prim Hearts Carnival * Second Life Ballet * SS Galaxy * Surf Republic Places that are Smart, Beautiful, and often Fun! * Black Swan * Collateral Damage * Virtual Hallucinations * Gallery of Reflexive Architecture * Resonating with Wind * The Future * Zero Point * Arts and Letters * Splo * Teal - Entire Sim! * Clock Island * Treasure Island * Louvre Museum * The International Space Flight Museum * Dresden Gallery * Virtual Starry Night * Weather Island Places Based on Real Places * Ajax Arena * Capital Hill * Chichen Itza * Dublin * Galveston Island * NBC - Rockefeller Center * New Paris * Oahu * Paris 1900 * The Big Easy - New Orleans * Yankee Stadium Places for Romance * Bliss Garden * Gypsy Moon * Joy Isle * Midsummer Isle * Secret Reflections * The Lost Gardens of Apollo A Tiny Romantic Moment * Aphrodite's Waterfall & Cavern * Eternal Passions * Romance in Durango * Tethy's Mountain Top Places to find Peace * Straylight * Victorianna Royal Garden * Greenhouse * Dreamworld SE * SL Botanical Gardens * Svarga * Angel Dorei Places for Role Play * The Crack Den * Everwind * Tombstone Arizona * NorSim * Caledon * Midian * City of Lost Angel's * Roma * Avilion * Toxian Places for Formal Dancing * The Carinsoa Ballroom * Silver Rose * My Blue Heaven Jazz Club * Avilion Grove * Bogart's * Caribbean Breezes Jazz Club * Phat Cat's Jazzy Blue Lounge Places to Dance * Jade'sJazz Lounge * Juke Joint Blues * Junkyard Blues * Runaround Sue's Sims to Explore even if Shopping is Nearby * Artilleri * Crimson Shadow * Isle of Nymphetamine * Nakama * Pillow Talk - Ground Level * Retropia * SiniStyle * Tableau Places For New People * Free Dove * New Citizen's Plaza * Sarah Nerd's Freebie Paradise * The Gnubie Store * Yadni's Junkyard You will find all the links on my blog. /327/75/211762/1.html Dinosaurs Park Greenies Intemptesta Nox Sanctum Sanctorum Straylight Alhambra (slurl.com/secondlife/Al%20Andalus%20Alha mbra/196/99/49) Chichen Itza (slurl.com/secondlife/Visit%20Mexico/198/ 66/39) *~ LITTLE EGYPT ~*, Westbury (46, 95, 33) Paris (slurl.com/secondlife/Tour%20Eiffel/238/6 2/24) 4 different neat Stonehenges (just put "Stonehenge" into search) Dublin Hawaii Oahu There is an Indiana Jones Experience, but I've forgotten the exact SLurl for that More than 4 amusement parks (I know there are at least 1 more than the three I have visited): AlphaLand Long Beach Carnival and Amusement Park Prim Hearts Grendel's Children (neat land below the sky shop) Isle of Nymphetamine (very neat island with a swan boat, dolphins, huge turtle, ships . .. ) Steelhead City Oregon 1854 (an island recreated to look like an Oregon city in 1854) Vienna (Austria City (23, 105, 22)) Yankee Stadium Wolf Mountain (Skiing) Salzburg (Skiing, and city) Weather channel Sim (Skiing, biking, surfing (I think, didn't really look)) Oh and Comcast Island - neat build - fun race .. . . um planes, jetskiis (max speed is too slow for the jetskis), neat mad scientist thingie /327/cb/212810/1.html and The Abyss AlphaLand Ancient Ways Bones of the Dinosaurs (slurl.com/secondlife/Stratos%20Legend%20 Rezzable/58/127/21) Chichen Itza (Location: Visit Mexico slurl.com/secondlife/Visit Mexico/198/66/39">slurl.com/secondlife/Visit%20Mexico/198/66/39) Comcast Island Crimson Shadow Little Egypt Dealey Plaza in Dallas Texas Hawaii Oahu Isle of Nymphetamine Junkyard Blues (That's the Bayou island sim one) NOAA Prim Hearts Rezzable Hallucinogen Roma Salzburg Steelhead City Oregon 1854 Straylight Titanic Weather Channel Sim Wolf Mountain And there is a space place where you can be luanched on a rocket to space - neat series of planets up there, and you can also visit Mars. Dang. Can't remember the place. International Space . . . something I think. _____________________
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Sally Silvera
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12-12-2007 10:23
Woohoooo
This is getting out of hand I'll sit down and combine this lot over the next few days. If anyone knows any places on these lists that don't exist anymore, let me know. _____________________
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Conifer Dada
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12-12-2007 10:28
Damania and Dresden Gallery are 'musts' - you just have to see them!
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Solanghe Sarlo
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12-12-2007 10:54
Haven't seen this on a list yet...
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Roobus Newt
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12-12-2007 11:49
The Cave of Doom. Always good for a laugh. Also.... find some roads and go for a drive. That's always fun and irritating.
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Meade Paravane
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12-12-2007 12:04
/me sees all the places she'd mention except the Blackwater sim.. Really a must-see if you're into art at all..
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Sally Silvera
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12-12-2007 12:11
Just to note once again, I'll include any places mentioned in this thread that aren't on the lists Lexxi and I posted above in my compiled version.
Oh and I'll be asking everyone who is willing to help categorise the full list once I've got it done. Otherwise it's going to be far too messy, I reckon. What we do with it next is anyone's guess _____________________
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Field trip!
12-12-2007 12:15
Just to note once again, I'll include any places mentioned in this thread that aren't on the lists Lexxi and I posted above in my compiled version. Oh and I'll be asking everyone who is willing to help categorise the full list once I've got it done. Otherwise it's going to be far too messy, I reckon. What we do with it next is anyone's guess Well we can all go on a field trip togeather! _____________________
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Sally Silvera
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12-12-2007 12:17
Well we can all go on a field trip togeather! It would take months  but it would be fun Actually I meant more in terms of adding it to the new resident info kit or a sticky or something, because it's likely to be a bit long for regular posting in these kinds of threads _____________________
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Marianne McCann
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12-12-2007 12:33
Four for your winter fun...
Del Agua (Winterland, only open one month a year!) Livingtree (All winterized!) Mars Area01 Rezzable NCC (Magical Musical Ice Caves!) _____________________
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12-12-2007 12:42
Four for your winter fun... Del Agua (Winterland, only open one month a year!) Livingtree (All winterized!) Mars Area01 Rezzable NCC (Magical Musical Ice Caves!) Oh yes, there will have to be a separate category for seasonal places I guess. Also thinking of adding some music venues. _____________________
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12-12-2007 13:04
Can I add The Future to that, even if only for the Crooked House? Thanks for reminding me of the Crooked House, I meant to show it to some friends, and kept getting sidetracked. I also loved the Futurama style transport tubes in the rest of the sim. _____________________
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12-12-2007 13:10
Oh, and what's that one where you walk along a skinny path in hell...and there are amazing sculptie statues and stuff all around? Super cool... i beleive it's called black swan "follow the path...." one of my favourites as well, very hard to get over the path without using fly. watch out for the automated spikes that come out of the ground actually that was the first place i tryed windlight, blew my mind.there are so many i find natalia zeminof's blog great for finding places to visit, loads of pictures and a small write up about the place http://www.mermaiddiaries.com/ -Crunch _____________________
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12-12-2007 13:15
i beleive it's called black swan "follow the path...." one of my favourites as well, very hard to get over the path without using fly. watch out for the automated spikes that come out of the ground actually that was the first place i tryed windlight, blew my mind.-CrunchYep that's Black Swan, very cool place. We were there when another couple of people were exploring as well. We couldn't figure how they managed to navigate the path withouth flying and they weren't saying. _____________________
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Lexxi Gynoid
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12-12-2007 13:18
Oh, and what's that one where you walk along a skinny path in hell...and there are amazing sculptie statues and stuff all around? Super cool... You probably meant the one that other person mentioned, but there is also a path through hell in Crimson Shadow:  And Rezzable Hallucinogen has a neat path out on an island that has lots of neat statues around.  Note: I am on the statue hand. _____________________
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Lexxi Gynoid
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12-12-2007 13:25
i find natalia zeminof's blog great for finding places to visit, loads of pictures and a small write up about the place http://www.mermaiddiaries.com/ -Crunch I have a blog, I have lots of pictures, I wish I had the patience to do write ups Roughly 10 months inside of SL with lots and lots and lots of exploring and pictures, and a lost opportunity. Oh well.Neat looking blog, after the quick glance I gave to the blog. And I also like her hair.  Hehe. I've made clothes (I should have put up the picture where I'm wearing her Figure Skater dress to make this particular comment, oh well), I've taken pictures and put out a blog, but she really knows how to do it right hehe. Back to randomly flinging my pictures at Flickr, not using my blog, and pretending I have never made anything and never will. hehe._____________________
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