Crazy/cool names of real-world places

[Bloodstone Press]

One more from TN:

Big Sandy

The first time I saw this it was in a newspaper headline that read "Big Sandy Woman Found Dead."

I didn't know what to think!

 

[hunter1828]

Oh, Tennessee is full of 'em!

Turtletown
Ducktown
Bean Station
Pall Mall
Love Lady
Red Boiling Springs
Pigeon Forge
Wartburg

I know, because I was born and raised there.

hunter1828

 

[Nightfall]

I like Pinch and Quick in WV.

 

[Buttercup]

Southern Indiana has Gnawbone and Bean Blossom.

Kentucky has Monkey's Eyebrow and Big Bone Lick.

 

[hunter1828]

And from my adopted home state of North Dakota:

Zap
Beach (no where near a beach)
Devils Lake
Killdeer
Turtle Lake

 

[tarchon]

Aa.

 

[Bob5th]

There's a Possum Grape in Arkansas.

 

[Bloodstone Press]

I've lived in TN almost 15 years, and it still seems like a foreign country sometimes! Don't forget world famous:
Lynchburg.

What would think if you saw that in a work of fiction? I'd think "Its a town of mob violence and lawlessness."

Europe has a lot of cool names for places too. One of my favorites is

Rotterdam.

That just sounds like a place of decay and evil.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Aa.

Isn't there a St. Aaa in Cornwall?

Speaking locally, we've got Blue Ball, Gap, Bird In Hand, and Intercourse. I don't wanna know. Oh, and there's a place called Lawn not too far from here. And the northern Pennsylvania town of Jersey Shore, nowhere near either Jersey or the shore.

 

[Turin Turambar]

There are several odd names in Canada too...

Skukumchuck, British Columbia
Squamish, British Columbia
Spuzzum, British Columbia
Kleena Kleene, British Columbia
Moose Factory, Ontario