Devil's Postpile (Wyoming)
Valley of the Giants (Australia)
The Giant's Causeway (Ireland)
Dragon Claw Road (Columbia Maryland)
Intercourse (Pennsylvania)
The Land of Nod (Yorskhire England)
Crows Nest & Garden of Eden (Nova Scotia)
Big Chimney (West Virginia)
-A whole gobbing mess from
Britain and the
U.S. .
The concise...
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (Wales)
Which means: "St Mary's Church in the Hollow of the White Hazel near a Rapid Whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio near the Red Cave".
...and...
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu (New Zeland)
Roughly translated: "The brow of the hill, where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid down, climbed up and swallowed mountains, known as the Land Eater, played his flute to his loved one".
and finally...
Ferox4 said:
Beaver Lick, KY (There's a Beaver Lick Trading Post, Beaver Lick Christian Church & right down the road is - and I am not kidding - Big Bone Lick State Park)
FWIW there are a lot of places named "X" Lick in KY because they donate the location of a salt lick. (A salt lick is nothing more than a ground deposit of salt and gains it's name because animals will lick at it to get the salt).
Damn hippies!
Yellow Springs is named after the deposits (actually more orange than yellow) left by a mineral spring that bubbles up in a nearby glen (Glen Helen to be precise). "Healing" properties have been attributed to the spring both by the Shawnee & later by white settlers. In the 1800's there was a health resort built at the rim of the Glen to take advantage of the "healing waters".
Glen Helen is also one of the reputed locations for the secret Shawnee silver mine.
