Two of the oddest street names I’ve found are Psomas Way in Venice, CA, and Moyamensing Avenue in Philadelphia.
More about New Orleans: they pronounce “Calliope” as “CAL-ee-ope.” “Burgundy” is “bur-GUN-dee.” “Esplanade” is “ESS-pluh-nade.” They’ve even been known to pronouce “Clio” as “see ell TEN.”
This is interesting to me. We just re-wrote our street naming regulations for our county.
Developers choose the names for their new streets and condos/subdivisions. The biggest problem we have is duplicate street names. We try to nip that in the bud, but it can be a problem.
Duplicate subdivision and condominium names are also a problem. We have a LOT of tourists that will know the name of the complex they are staying at, but not the street. It’s a 911/emergency services issue.
Often, developers will do a marketing campaigns before the planning process and approval is finished. “Beautiful Blue River Condominiums” Um… no, we already have three Blue River Condos. Or Lakeview or Elk Run or whatever.
They can be VERY upset when the name isn’t approved. And that’s why we have a small development called FUS.
I work for Summit County. FU S.
Anywho, I think the most interesting road name is ‘Barking Dog Lane’.
A side note, I don’t work in the same county as I live in. The county I live in was doing a road re-naming project to get rid of duplicates. My area was to get bird names as a theme. We are allowed to make suggestions for new names. There is only one other full time resident on our road so I might get my suggestion to go through. “Chicken Crossing Road”
We’ll see if that flies. 
Butt Hole Road was renamed recently. A sad loss.
In New England, there are a lot of “butt” roads, usually referring to the original path to the community water tank or butt.
Locally, there is a “Cathole Road,” the meaning of which has been completely lost. In modern parlance, a cathole is what a hiker digs in the woods to emulate a bear. The local wit pronunciation is “kath-oly.”
My favorite in this respect is the New England Butt Company, which started off making butt hinges and diversified in its later (ca. 1900) years.
Punsters abound, yes: The Sacramento region has Little Ol Court, Any Way and Rong Way.
A good candidate for the most exotic name in London must be Naoroji Street near Finsbury.
Baffled me for years until I finally looked it up; he was the first asian chap to be a British MP
No, no. The butts were where you practised your archery.
But “butt” does mean a water or wine cask, and the sense originated at about the same time as the archery one. It seems to me that in towns water butts would be much more common than places to practice archery. In any case, your link itself says that the word may refer to yet a third sense:
I lived in Columbia, MD when I worked at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory back in the 1980s. Many of the street names lack the word ‘road’ or ‘street’ in them. So you get road names like ‘Charles Dickens’ and ‘Dasher Green’. I think Hobbit’s Glen was my favorite, but Lamplighter was rather odd to a young man who grew up in the South.
Not on this side of the pond. A “butt” pretty much invariably refers to a very large cask - larger than a hogshead, often custom made for purposes like what we’d now use a premade metal or plastic watering pond.
Around here, there’s a “Nobottom road”. Seriously, the potholes aren’t that bad.
Honolulu has three consecutive ‘political’ streets: Republican, Democrat and Home Rule.
Milwaukie, OR has Else Where Place next to Where Else Place.
Our island (and others in the county) has some twee and fanciful names: Yellow Brick Road, Dirt Road, Baroque N’Glass Lane, Loon Song Lane and What’s The Point (since renamed).
Seattle has an unofficial one. Allen Place off of Westlake has the second ‘l’ strategically scratched on the sign to make it ‘Alien Place’. Gotta love it.
It’s a plant.
Portland, OR, also has a street named Failing Street … named after Henry Failing. When the Interstate cut through, it was decided to put a foot bridge over …
… and the sign on it says “Failing Pedestrian Bridge”.
A little off-topic, but funny anyway.
Nothing anywhere will ever match the street name found in many English towns in the Middle Ages.
Off the top of my head, some weird street names around where I live:
Dye Krest
Green Cars Lane
Romeo Plank
Knickerbocker Avenue
Portland has Couch St., pronounced “cooch”. The street was named after General Darius Couch. Many of the streets in Portland are named after Union Generals.
Peters Creek, Alaska has a street called Four Wheel Drive. My brother used to live on it, and actually named it. Back in the day, it was aptly named.
Oops, I see Couch has already been mentioned. Guess I should read the entire thread first.
The roads were probably named after the golf course.
eta: I just noticed you’re in La Jolla. It’s definitely the golf courses. That’s where they’re located.
Why do I hear a Mel Brooks character insisting it’s pronounced “gropy-koont”?