The Strangest Sights in Second Life

Welcome to Second Life, by far the most popular and well-used virtual world. I went in search of the strange and unexpected in Second Life, and I wasn't disappointed. Well, it wasn't me exactly: It was the handsome devil with the mohawk shown here, my Second Life counterpart, or avatar, Motard Putzo.

People do some strange things in the virtual world of Second Life: They build avant-garde structures and environments, they remake themselves with odd faces (or bodies, or clothing), they fly, they get stuck in walls and fall through floors, they role-play, they switch genders, they perform sex acts with other avatars (sorry, not shown here--too strange), they play pranks. They do what they can't do in real life. That's why people go.

Here are some snapshots...