De Natalia Zelmanov

Gardens

Acropolis Gardens: Large multi-sim garden with mountains, waterfalls, lakes, a volcano, and beautiful hiking trails

Bliss Basin: One of the premier dating spots in SL, with 2 trails circling a large lake with beautiful views and waterfalls; lake is rumored to be visited by mermaids

Heavenly Rose: A rose garden and one of the top romantic spots in SL, with an amazing number of poseballs! Also has a cool underwater house and dance area

Lauks Nest: Mayan-style ruins in a lush jungle and a waterfall

Lost Gardens of Apollo: Garden sim with semi-secluded sitting areas and beautiful sunsets, great for…um…chatting

Mars Japanese Gardens: A peaceful Japanese-themed garden by the sea

Midsomer Isle: A romantic themed garden with streams, greenery, and lots of secluded areas; perfect for a stroll or sitting together for a chat

Second Chance Trees: Dedicate a tree to your sweetheart and contribute to a good cause; a lush garden sim designed by Luna Bliss of Bliss Basin fame

Second Life Botanical Gardens: A garden with wonderful sounds and sights, with trails winding through waterfalls and secluded spots

Secret Reflections: A giant sim-sized cave with waterfalls, greenery, and lots of poseballs; also the adjacent lake at Midnight Reflections

Serenity Falls: Come see 2 sims worth of model homes and walk among the beautiful gardens

Svarga: A beautiful lush tropical rainforest with an ancient ruin, feels like set of King Kong

The Rainforest: Aztec-themed sim with rainforest, pyramids, and secret areas to explore

Real World

Barcelona: Shops, live music at The Café, the Columbus Monument, and guys from Barcelona

Bollywood: The movie capital of India in SL, come listen to music and watch movies from Bollywood, along with a disco and rides

Bryggen: A famous landmark from Norway, with a beautiful fjord, waterfalls, virtual reality room, and occasional live music events

Dresden Gallery: A reproduction of the Real Life Zwinger Palace in Dresden, Germany, including the Old Masters Picture Gallery (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister); complete with all 750 paintings in the permanent collection!

Dublin: A replica of Dublin in SL, complete with many of the popular tourist spots

Frankfurt: Several connected sims making up the city of Frankfurt, Germany in SL, with sights from RL Frankfurt, stores, offices, and of course clubs

Hollywood: A corner of Hollywood in SL, with some well-known landmarks

Mag SL Toyko Japan: The sims of MagSL are where the real Japanese crowd live and hang out in SL, come get a taste of Japan

New Orleans: A memorial and charity effort to aid hurricane victims, makes you feel like you are almost there at the Big Easy

New Paris: Its Paris with an Eiffel Tower! Need I say more? Poseballs and champagne everywhere

Opéra Populaire: Visit the infamous Paris opera house, home of the Phantom of the Opera, and the surrounding French countryside

Paris 1900: Paris with Eiffel Tower, Moulin Rouge, French cafe, shopping, and real French people

Parioli Rome: A corner of Rome, Italy in SL, featuring shopping, cafes, sights, a museum, and Italian men

Rockefeller Center: Built by NBC for their Christmas Tree Lighting Event, this is a corner of New York with ice skating and a restaurant in the sky

Scotland: Visit Nessie’s Pub, shop for all things Scottish, watch a movie, look for the hidden cave, explore the replica of the Eilean Donan castle, and get married in Celtic style

Venice Beach: Surf, sand, shopping, and roller-skating; just like the real thing, but better, cause you dont get sand all over the place

Virtual Morocco: The Morocco of SL, where there is a marketplace, mosque, beautiful beach, soccer fields, and a cafe worthy of the movie Casablanca (with belly dancing poseballs )

West of Ireland: An Irish-themed residential sim, complete with an Irish pub, art galleries, and the best surfing (yes, surfing) this side or Ireland

Yankee Stadium: A wonderful reproduction of the Yankee Stadium in SL, with baseball freebies. Worth a visit, but unfortunately not too much to do…

Role-Playing

Avilion Grove: Visit the enchanting medieval-themed sim for some formal ballroom dancing and walk around the gardens; practice some light medieval role-playing while there

Avilion Isle: Adjacent to the Avilion Grove and Avilion Mist sims, this is dedicated to Medieval fantasy role-playing with areas for above-ground and below-ground humans and creatures

City of Lost Angel’s: A dark role-playing sim full of vampires, demons, and other evil things; you can come and look, but watch your step

Midgar: A detailed Final Fantasy role-playing sim split into the Upper Plates and Slums; its usually busy and full of strange characters with big swords

Midian City: Beautifully detailed Goth sim in an urban city setting, always full of spookies of every kind

ROMA (ancient Rome): A richly packed sim with all the famouse sights from ancient Rome crammed in; so much to see, it has its own visitor’s guidebook

Starfleet Command Galaxy: Headquarters for Star Trek’s Starfleet command in SL; come explore this sci-fi classic and check out the role-playing

Tarnburg: One of the largest and most popular Gorean sims in SL, with all the typical sights found in most SL Gorean cities (be sure to read the sim rules and follow them if you visit!)

Telos IV: Star Wars themed role-playing…a space station with every group of Star Wars character imagineable: Jedis, Siths, droids, stormtroopers, and everyone else…

Tombstone: A Western town in Arizona set in the 1860’s, home of the OK Corral

Toxian City: One of the big Goth sims, with vampires, demons, and other nasty things roaming around

Transylvania: A spooky town of Gothic structures and vampires, with a castle, chapel, museum, shops, and community center (for vampires :P)

Wizard’s Alley: A reproduction of Diagon Alley from Hermoine Granger (I mean Harry Potter :P) series of books

Things to See

Altstadt: A shopping sim modeled after a German village, with lots of cool carnival rides, L$1 bowling, and free beer on the south end of the sim

Babbage Square: The new Victorian Steampunk-themed sim, where creative residents build amazing structures and a new society

Bedrock: Come check out the home of the Flintstones at Bedrock, theres a disco, many games, and a 9-hole miniature gold course

Better World: Displays on water habitats, Peace Tiles, Camp Dafur, and Peaceful Tomorrows; learn how we can make the world a better place

Caledon: The Independent State of Caledon, a Victorian-era group of 10+ sims where the tenants have built some amazing period buildings in a well-planned community

Caledon Moors: Explore the darker side of Caledon, home of the Caledon Castle, Cavorite Mineshaft, and a host of haunted places

Caledon SteamSkyCity: A Caledon Victorian Steampunk sim in the sky (steam-powered, of course), with the usual assortment of unusual shops and homes

Cathedrals of SL: Tour 3 cathedrals in SL - Darkwood, St. Guilhem, and St. Paul’s Cathedral

Chi: Beaches, mountain, and volcano; come to relax, meditate, or surf the great waves

Coca-Cola Virtual Thirst Pavilion: Coca-cola is sponsoring a contest in Second Life to design a vending machine that dispenses the Coke experience; they have a pavilion where you can see some sample machines

Devil’s Labyrinth: A huge haunted house complete with puzzles, mazes, and different outcomes! Amazing details and 3 completely different sections!

Devils Moon: Cyberpunk sim featuring a cool reflection effect on the streets (buildings are reflected off the water on the ground); home of Abranimations and ALICE the talking computer

Elf Circle: A slice of Middle Earth, where Elves, Dwarves, and other fantasy creatures roam; a set of 5 sims with a common Elven theme

Governor Linden’s Mansion: The oldest home in SL is now a historical site; check out the basement for a bit of SL history

Great Second Life Railway: Ride the train through a number of sims in the northern part of the mainland in SL; catch the tug boat to continue your journey

Gypsy Moon: Explore a hidden gypsy-themed moon with unusual colors, beautiful details, and secret romantic spots

Info Island: An entire sim of information, from a general interest library to medical and many other academic resources.

International Spaceflight Museum: Lots and lots of rockets, and even has a rocket ride that takes you to the space station and beyond! Definitely an SL must-see!

Isle of Dreams: A beautiful castle with a romantic garden, private areas in floating balloons, and a gorgeous water fountain

Isle of Wyrms: Like it says in the Search description, “Here be dragons”; this is where you can meet and talk to dragons, and maybe become one yourself

Ivory Tower Library of Primitives: Explore the great mysteries of the prims and all the shapes they can take on, displays on all the ways you can torture a prim to get the shapes you need

Kasteel Verloren (Verloren Castle): A grand sim-sized castle nestled in the Bavarian (German) sim of Verloren, with a beautifully decorated and detailed interior

Linden Village: Come see where the masters of Second Life live - the home of the Lindens; grab a notecard, check the calendar, and meet a Linden inworld during their office hours to hear the latest gossips

Luskwood: The furry community sim, featuring a rich community, event areas, and furry AV’s for sale

Mag SL Toyko Japan: The sims of MagSL are where the real Japanese crowd live and hang out in SL, come get a taste of Japan

Mill Pond: A residential sim with pretty lake, a nice tavern, and coffee shop; perfect for meeting someone for a friendly chat

Mystery Isle: A replica of New York in the 1930’s with music and hosting interactive murder mystery

Nagaya: A modern Japanese-themed town, its full of…well…Japanese things

Nakama: Dedicated to Japanese anime, with 4 different areas each representing a different form of anime, along with shops and anime fans

Neufreistadt: Modeled after a walled Bavarian city, Neufreistadt is the seat of the Confederation of Democratic Sims, one of the only active government systems in SL; and also know for its sites and fog

Nexus Prime: A cyberpunk city based on the world from Blade Runner; one of the oldest sims in SL, with a rich history of development

NOAA: U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s sim, with several great interactive exhibits! Prepare to get wet

Olympia’s Land of Weirdness: Come see the weirdness in this old SL neighborhood in the Green sim, along with some interesting stuff on nearby plots

Particle Laboratory: Displays and information on particles effects in SL, and all the ways you can bling, poof, explode, or fog things up

Pomponio Volcano: A large volcano spanning the border of 4 sims; with planned eruptions coming soon

Pot Healer’s Adventure: Play a free adventure game built right into SL in a gorgeously built sim; with game objects and ability to save your game!

Saijo City: A damaged-enabled futuristic cyberpunk city, with some cool music thrown in

Shinagawa: Detailed reproduction of a Japanese Heian era palace

Silent Hill: A town based on the movie of the same name; very spooky place, with sounds that will make you jump out of your chair

Silverscreen: A sim for promoting movies, with free give-aways, art and shots from the movies, and background info; started with the movie “300″

Spaceport Bravo: A new addition to the International Spaceflight Museum, with new models and party area

SS Galaxy: A cruise ship 3-sims in size, featuring 2 residential sims and 1 commerical sim with many cruise-ship type activities

Suffugium: A cyberpunk sim where Big Brother is watching from everywhere

The Future: Home to the Crooked 4-Dimensional House, a cool transportation system, and interesting prim structures.

The Pond: A piece of Australia in SL, built by Australian telecom company BigPond for its customers, its a great place to mingle with Australians and race motorcycles; bring your Australian translator

Treasure Island: Pirate ships and adventure! A sim with large buccaneer ships and pirates’ hideaway

Verloren Castle (Kasteel Verloren): A grand sim-sized castle nestled in the Bavarian (German) sim of Verloren, with a beautifully decorated and detailed interior

Victorianna Castle: Self-proclaimed as the “Most Beautiful Castle in SL”, its like a gigantic beautiful torus sculpture; see the amazing things that can be done with prims!

Wastelands: Post-apocalyptic (like after a few nukes) residential sim, where a bunch of creative residents build their survival homes in the wasteland

Wizard’s Alley: A reproduction of Diagon Alley from Hermoine Granger (I mean Harry Potter :P) series of books