I remember in my younger days seeing anti-nuclear protestors marching out in front of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, probably in the wake of the Three Mile Island incident. They were carrying signs with various anti-nuclear slogans on them.
To this day, I’m surprised that NONE of them carried a sign saying “Diablo means the devil!”
I’m particular to Bumpass Hell (sic). Semi-close to a mountain, and lots of smoke and brimstone. Like some above, you’d have to squat to live in a National Park.
Sorry, that’s a fake Hell. It has a distinct lack of lutefisk
That explains the souvenir mug that declared “ARIZONA: 200 miles from water, 6 feet from Hell!”
You’ll want to get in some golf, right? Devils Golf Course, Death Valley National Park, California.
But they do have a 10 mile race (and 4.8 mile weenie run) featuring the “I ran through Hell T Shirt”
http://www.active.com/running/pinckney-mi/run-thru-hell-2013
We have the Dead River here in my neck of the woods. Maybe a good vacation spot for you?
Some ominous place names in the US that you can move to are Death Valley (most of it seems to be parkland, but there is at least one regular town, Furnace Creek, CA, which is over 50m below sea level and has an ominous place name itself), Calaveras County, CA (calavera means skull in Spanish) - Mark Twain wrote about it, Tombstone, AZ, Deadhorse, AK, the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of NYC, Isla Culebra (“Snake Island”, in the Caribbean and part of Puerto Rico), Lost City, WV (actually not that hard to find - it’s near Harrisonburg, VA), Hell’s Half Acre, WY,
Some places that you can’t move to because they are parks or nature reserves:
Caja de Muertos, PR (“box of the dead”, i.e. “dead man’s chest”, fifteen men and a bottle of Puerto Rican rum optional)
Hell’s Half Acre Lava Field, ID (though Wikipedia is not clear as to whether all of it is parkland or whether one could theoretically buy a parcel)
Why is half acre such a common pairing with hell? Is it just because of the alliteration? It occurs to me that “hectare” would work as well.
I was just in Death Valley this past weekend (Saturday high: 126), enjoying the devil’s golf course, corn field, and hole. Good old Scratch, he owns the weirdest things in the weirdest places.
There’s Devils Lake in Oregon. The town next to had been known as Devils Lake as well, but people were uncomfortable with it so it became Delake. It was later incorporated into Lincoln City but the area is still called Devils Lake.
The outflow from Devils Lake to the Pacific was also Devils River but got shortened to D River. Not only is that the shortest named river in the world, it is also one of the shortest rivers in length.
Of course it wouldn’t be a true Devils Lake without the mythology of a monster from the Native American days. Unfortunately, the lake is so small no monster of noticeable size could possibly hide in it. Loch Ness it ain’t.
Gallows Hill in Salem, Massachusetts might fill the bill.
What’s the problem with a place being covered by national park? All the OP needs to do is to visit the place with a strop and a pocketknife, and he can have his hone.
Mount Erebus or Mount Terror, except they’re pretty cold, being in Antarctica and all.
You could live on the outskirts of theDismal Swamp.
Lot’s of places with interesting names over her in the UK:
Cock Hill, London
Beaver Close, Surrey
Bell End near Lickey End Birmingham
Ugley, Essex
Scratchy Bottom, Dorset
Beggars Bush, Sussex
Maybe Helstone in Cornwall would suit?
"If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent Texas and live in Hell”
General Philip Sheridan,1866
If you still want to go to Hell but don’t fancy either Norway or Michigan, Satan’s Kingdom is apparently in Massachusetts. And in Vermont.
Also, by the way, if you’re willing to negotiate a bit on the “human habitation” part, there’s a Mount Doom on Titan.