“Bang” means village. “Porn/phon” means blessing. However NB Thai uses its own alphabet, not Latin.
Don’t miss the lovely French village Y. Later on you may visit Å in Norway.
My favorite is Dickshooter, Idaho. Named for pioneer settler Dick Shooter.
There’s Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, in Quebec.
Big Bone Lick in Kentucky. So named because it’s a salt lick with fossils of very big Pleistocene animals.
I’ve not only been there, but my brother’s car broke down there, leaving us stranded in Hell.
Of course, sometimes it really is exactly what it sounds like, like Head-Smashed-In-Buffalo-Jump, Alberta.
I’ve been in Fanny’s Hole. It’s a ghost town in Idaho.
Once or twice a year I pass a sign in Pennsylvania that points the way to Virginville. I always wanted to come there, but I’ve never done it yet.
Nobody has.
It’s a pleasant little burg. At least on the summer afternoon we were there. Being carless on a weekend in February might have been much less fun. Doubly so as a young person with little spare money.
@bibliophage: That was excellent. Well played Good Sir.
There’s a tiny place with a gas station (maybe) named Hollywood, Arkansas.
My Daddy took all the grandkids, that fell for it, to Hollywood.
He got a big charge outta that one.
One time there was a food truck there and they lived high on the hog.
Apparently “hole” was old fur trapper slang for a valley, e.g. Jackson Hole.
Around here a valley would be bottom
So Fanny’s Bottom. Kinda sounds worse.
One of the nicknames for Lethbridge, Alberta, is “LA.” It adorned the transit system’s buses (LA Transit), and a few local businesses call themselves "LA _____ " (coffee, souvenirs, etc.).
I can see somebody telling their kids that the family vacation this year would be in LA, and then taking them to Lethbridge.
Manhattan has about three streets and a freight rail line.
Well, the one in Montana, anyway.
I think you meant 3 streetlights (traffic lights) in Manhattan MT. It’s got way more than three streets.
Manhattan NV has no kidding about 5 streets and no railroad. But two bars.
For bonus points, Manhattan NV has a street called Bobby Bottom Road.
Bragg city, Ar has something to brag about.
The famous “Stairs to Nowhere”
not to spoil it for tourist but it’s an old set of cement steps to a long gone house. Someone graffiti’d “stairs to nowhere”
Batman (the name of a city, province and river in Turkey)
Athol. Google says it’s a town in Idaho, " first known as Colton, the town was renamed Athol by a settler who came from Athol, Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Athol was named after a town in Scotland named for the Duke of Atholl."
Wikipedia weighs in on the name origin for Athol, Massachusetts: " Originally called Pequoiag when settled by Native Americans, the area was subsequently settled by five families in September 1735. When the township was incorporated in 1762, the name was changed to Athol. John Murray, one of the proprietors of the land, chose the name which traditionally was believed to mean “new Ireland” although some, including historian James E. Fraser, dispute this definition."
The sniggering humor is obvious.
There’s always the village formerly known as Fucking, Austria, until they local townsfolk changed it to Fugging, Austria, in 2021.
There was also another Fucking, Austria, that changed it’s named to Fugging back in 1836. That Fugging is located in northeast Austria/Lower Austria.