This surreal post-apocalypse landscape is where you land if you teleport to the Tableau Vivant main store in Second Life. But good luck in finding any store around to spend money in! This is an extreme example of an apparent paradox of SL — there are places where so much creativity and work was obviously invested (not to mention rent fees) without any conceivable financial profit that you wonder how they can exist at all. Expensive labors of love?