[pointless digression]There’s a “Nacogdoches Road” in town. Took me years to be able to pronounce it correctly. Until I could, I called it “Nacho doggies”.[/p.d.]
Some more ugly-sounding Texas towns’ names:
Doffing
Flowelia
Petronilla
Poth
Runge
Schertz
Skidmore
There’s always Pahrump, Nevada. The CSI writers must love making the characters say that, because they seem to have a lot of cases there.
I nominate this thread for Best Ever.
Meanwhile, in Massachusetts there’s an area between two towns called Arlington and Belmont. What do they call it? You guessed it. Arlmont. Maybe not that ugly, but pretty hilarious. There’s also a small town in Maine where there’s a USM campus I played at once called Gorham, which sounds like something out of a Lovecraft story. I also like to make fun of my Canadian friends who come from Guelph, which always sounds to me like “squelch.”
Seconding Rancho Cucamonga
And, now I think about it, Sour Lake.
The town next door has a** Popple Dungeon Road**. Sooo creepy sounding!
Lotsa killin’ in them parts, what with the Dutch namin’ them cricks and all. Heck, the Catskills cover a major chunk of the state! Sadly, Fresh Kills (site of a now-closed Staten Island landfill) lived up to its name almost ten years ago, when it served as the dumping-and-sorting site for 9-11 debris.
These aren’t ugly names, though. How about Tonganoxie (in Kansas)? Sounds like a disease which slowly destroys your tongue.
Or Oxcum, a suburb of Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. Silly meaning, and ugly, too, even without the silly meaning.
Also, Kill Van Kull. Sounds like a post-apocalyptic thrash metal band, which pretty well describes the landscape around this New Jersey-Staten Island waterway.
Finally, to add to the Texas list, Lubbock is quite ungainly.
I can’t believe I forgot, and left out Vidor, Texas! :smack:
I feel dirty and ashamed, just for typing the word. 
I’ve always thought that Trevlac, IN had a horrible name. Apparently, the town founder wanted to use a little more imagination that just using his own last name. So he spelled t backwards!
Siam Sam, you are probably correct. I don’t speak that language - in fact the only French words I know are “Oy, Oy, Mademozel”.
I know a few people who wouldn’t have any trouble convincing anyone of that.
It’s kind of a nice little town, and it wasn’t a bad place to grow up, but even people from the area laugh when you mention it:
Peotone, Illinois
Gary (surprised this hasn’t been mentioned)
Akron
Mansfield
Scranton
Bayonne
Midland
Eugene
Michigan has
Ishpeming
Hell
Skidmore Lake
Bad Axe
Pinckney
Flushing
Prudenville
Dowagiac
Zeeland
Cheboygan
There is a small town called Climax Michigan. They have some difficulty keeping a sign at the edge of town.
Indiana boasts a winner of a place named Gas City. Might as well have called it flatulence.
Yeah, Keokuk. I’ve actually heard people say, “I’m going to Keokuk,” and it makes me want to grab a bucket and say “Do it in here!”
Also, Effingham.
My favorite is the DC neighborhood foggy bottom. It sounds like an ailment that old Victorian aristocrats would suffer from.
I passed through this town on the Trans-Canadian Highway. I didn’t stop.
Georgia has a Knucklesville Road. Its a dirt road out in the mountains. I suspect it earned its name at some point.