Odd place names

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Do you also have a feeling of fascination to stare at a map and wonder how those far away places would look like in real? When staring at a map you get some names that really would make you want to pack your bags immediately as they sound almost paradise-esque, but some names are just plain silly and bizarre. Let's make a list, but only existing towns please!


Some oddities:

Hell Hole (USA, somewhere in Ohio I think but I am unsure of the exact state)
Corpus Christi (USA)
Intercourse (USA)
Fidelity (USA)
Little Rock (USA)
America (Netherlands)
Portugaal (Netherlands)
Condom (France)
Chimney Corner (Northern Ireland)
Zwijnaarde (Belgium ; it literally means "pig soil")
Aalbeke (Belgium ; means "eel creek")
Hell (Norway, it even hosts the airport of the Trondheim area)
Usa (Japan ; a local factory ironically fabricate goods with "made in Usa" on it)
Land's End (England)
Mainland (Scotland ; ironically this is actually a small island way off the north coast)

Pity Me (NE England)

Cheesequake, NJ (USA)

Peapack, NJ

Bible readers, please avert your eyes:

Onancock, VA, and I am not even kidding about that one.

(For those who need more info, Google: Onan, Genesis, and Onanism)

Vulcan, Alberta
Hemaruka, Alberta
Dildo, Newfoundland

Why, AZ

Two Egg, FL

Sea Girt, NJ

Boring, OR

f*****g, Austria

I have seen so many silly names I can't even remember them all...Ah, lets see...

Americus.
That one makes me chuckle.

Cowford.
Name of my city, or at least, its previous name before it changed from a cow ford into an actual city.

Some examples of towns and villages from my own country:
Stalowa Wola (Steel Will)
Bialy Kal (White Stool - not a piece of furniture you sit on but what you do in the toilet)
Afryka (Africa)
Budy Prywatne and Budy Rzadowe (Private Kennels and Governmental Kennels)
Jednorozec (Unicorn)

Dumbogan, NSW

Theres a place called Texas on the way north to Queensland.

Morriset, on the Central Coast NSW ( I always think of Alanis )

And of course some of the aboriginal place names (Dongdingalong and Coloongalook)

Its not odd, but Hell is in norway, lots of tourist go there (not a joke)

Pratts Bottom (sp?), Kent

Corpus Christi is a collage in Oxford/Cambridge unless I'm very much mistaken. *goes to wiki*

Yep: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Chr ... _Cambridge, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Chr ... %2C_Oxford

Devils Arse,peak district/england.
is a great name.

^"Pratts Bottom (sp?), Kent"