Strangely named places you've been to

I’ve been to Dead Monkey Ridge, Arizona, but not to Rotten Bananas Butte. They’re about 100 miles apart on the Navajo Reservation, so I don’t know if there’s any connection between them, but it’s nice to think there is.

You could have an accident in Accident MD or a dent in Denton MD.

In northwest South Dakota there are two towns named Faith and Lemmon. This means that there’s a crossroads with a sign where an arrow to Faith points in one direction and the arrow to Lemmon points the other way. (Also, Lemmon is known for the world’s largest petrified wood park, while Faith is where “Sue”, the world’s most complete T-Rex skeleton, was dug up.)

And a few miles down the road is Gettysburg South Dakota. Town motto: “Where the Battle Was Not”.

Hollywood and California are adjacent, but Pasadena is 70 miles away in a different county. However, Scotland is just 18 miles south east of California.

What ausfahrt do you take to get to it? :smiley:

When I lived in Paducah, Kentucky, I was literally between Possum Trot and Monkey’s Eyebrow.

We spent the night in Weed too, also on our way to Oregon; we were moving there at the time. Except for having read Of Mice And Men, I hadn’t heard of Weed, CA.

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Do they have goats there?

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I rode through Igel (Hedgehog) between Trier and Luxemburg City.

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Hey, maybe its founder was from Burgos (“borroughs” or “towns”).

Regarding the word “pueblo”, which I assume originally meant “people” [of a city or town], does it retain any of that meaning at all in Spanish, or does it now simply mean “town”?

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Kokomo Indiana … a “onery” little town named after a "onery " local Indian chief in the early 1800s who according to family mythology had a daughter that one of the brothers that started the family line in america ran off to what would be niles michigan … and if you knew my family it would explain a lot …

Not just been to, but actually lived in for six months: Culver City, CA–officially redundant as The City of Culver City.

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I’ve been to Fast Eddy’s, a restaurant and motel in Tok, Alaska (pronounced ‘toke’). I bought a souvenir apron from the place.

Also been to the town of Chicken, AK, which is 60 miles from Tok on the Taylor Highway to Canada. “Highway” is a grand title for what is essentially the worst potholed, washboarded dirt road in Alaska. It’s a former gold mining town that was initially going to be named 'Ptarmigan" because of the large number of the game birds in the area. However, nobody could agree on the spelling, so they settled for “Chicken”.

I’ve also been to Buckshot Betty’s in Beaver Creek, YT.

Then there’s Long Rifle Lodge & Restaurant on the Glenn Highway north of Anchorage. They have a sign that says “We have the right to arm bears!”, and an absolutely killer view of the Matanuska Glacier and valley from the dining area.

Since Pennsylvania was an invented name based on the name of its founder William Penn, was the town in England named after the colony in America? By Quakers, perhaps?

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Here in the southwest, “pueblo” is used by Native American communities that had their land granted to them in the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago.

That’s quite near where I live! I frequently drive near Pope’s Head Road in the same county. Naturally we always call it Pope’s Nose Road.

How about this intersection though.. Proves Tolkein’s claim that you “can’t walk into Mordor” is a lie - hell, you can get there via Google Street View!!

For those who’ve visited Intercourse, PAyou missed out on quite a bit of the experience :wink:

Er, I rescind my claim about getting there. :eek::eek::eek: (pretty horrifying, really; I got to that link while searching for the story of how the road was named).

I’m hardly an expert, I just drove through it a few times, which takes about 10 seconds a time, but wikipediaclaims so.

I forgot that Wikipedia has articles on just about everything!

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