Crazy/cool names of real-world places

[Frostmarrow]

Vintergatan (or Milkyway) is just a couple of kilometers from here.

 

[d4]

i always thought King of Prussia, Pennsylvania was a weird name for a town (though kinda cool, too.)

Pennsylvania's also got many towns named for other places, from the previously mentioned Jersey Shore, PA to:

Moscow, PA
Lebanon, PA
Indiana, PA
California, PA
Wyoming County, PA

and the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania, up in north-central PA near Wellsboro.

 

[lacunae]

I once visited a town in Australia called "Mount Surprise" - there was no mountain! Just flat plains stretching off to the horizon...

 

[Stone Angel]

Well lets see in Indiana we have:

Prophets Rock
Stone Bluff not neccessarilly odd but still cool I think
Hanging Rock
A road known as the Devils Backbone
100 mile pond. A pond that apparrently has no bottom some of the old fogeys even told me they lost a crane in there once. For the record I have swam in it and if you swim into the middle well I never could touch bottom.
Preachers Corner
Steam Corner
Silverwood
I am sure that there are more but I am drawing a blank.

 

[Frostmarrow]

Oh by the way... Flen lies here. A town from the Greyhawk setting. It's just next door (30 km). It's pronounced FLE-ehn.

Its right here - by the Good Hills.

 

[A'koss]

There's a lot of wild names in BC... some sound straight out of a fantasy novel.

Anarchist Mountain
Kaleden
Zamora
Iron Mountain
Valemount
Valhalla Park
Phoenix
Tahsis
Lizardhead Mountain
Battle Mountain
Blackpool
Forge Mountain
Mount Fehr
Black Canyon
King Solomon Mountain
Deadwood
Annis
Mount Perseus

Dot
Blubber Bay
Fanny Bay
Bugaboo Park
Manhood Lake
Nipple Mountain
Tenderloin Mountain

I could go on and on...

Cheers,

A'koss.

 

[DarkSoldier]

The Milk River runs through southern Alberta, near the US border. Alberta is also where you'll find the towns of Acme, Smith, and Legal.

In Saskatchewan, you'll find Ravenscrag, Prince Albert, North Battleford, Star City, Indian Head, Big Beaver, and of course, the world famous Moose Jaw.

In Ontario, you'll find London, Stratford, and Cambridge, as well as Thunder Bay.

Ever been to Miami? Miami, Manitoba?

This is a good one: on the shore of Lake Winnipeg, is the small town of Gimli.

 

[CombatWombat51]

Cape Disappointment, WA, is where the US Coast Guard has its surf school (for driving small boats on the surf. It's so named because of the crazy waters there and how it's know for "disappointing" women, cuz those waters turn them into widows.

 

[Gez]

I had a list of French cities with funny or embarrassing names, but you would not get most of the puns...

Though, there's one that's funny and a beautiful, nearly D&Desque, place to boot:

La Souterraine ("The Subterranean"), which is in la Creuse ("The Hollow") !

An old mountainous city, with an extensive cave networks -- about all the old houses there are linked together by tunnels.

 

[Cor Azer]

Newfoundland, Canada...

Well, lessee... there's at least:

Harbour Harbour
No Name Bay
Placenta Bay
Dildo