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Delaware has a beach called Slaughter Beach
Inviting your family to a weekend getaway here sounds like a direct threat. The area is completely benign, but the violently unsettling name makes it entirely…
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Blue Ball, Pennsylvania has an awkward name
Stuck in an area infamous for horribly suggestive names, this location forces everyone who passes through to suppress a juvenile snicker. It proves that…
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Why Dildo, Newfoundland, keeps its name
Despite the global mockery and the endless theft of their municipal signage, these locals absolutely refuse to rebrand. They have chosen to embrace the sheer…
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This library has books in one country and seats in another
This building straddles an international line so perfectly that the books are in one country and the reading chairs are in another. You practically need a…
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Why this Pennsylvania town keeps losing its signs
The local public works department practically has to budget for endless sign replacements because pranksters cannot resist stealing the name plaques. It turns…
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How Odd, West Virginia got its name
The founders essentially crowdsourced their naming process, asking the postal service for something 'odd'. The government, lacking any sense of humor, took…
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Frankenstein, Missouri has no monsters
If you name your settlement after a legendary reanimated corpse, you owe the public at least one spooky castle. Instead, visitors get a profoundly boring…
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Louisville has a giant bat leaning against a building
Why have a normal sign when you can construct a towering piece of wooden sporting equipment that looks like it was carelessly left behind by a giant? It…
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Skull Valley is much quieter than its name suggests
A title this metal should belong to a treacherous mountain pass filled with outlaws, not a completely quiet farming community. It is a massive letdown for…
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Casey, Illinois has a giant wind chime
As if regular wind chimes were not annoying enough, they scaled one up to industrial proportions. Whenever a strong breeze rolls through, it must sound like a…
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Martinsville Illinois forged a ridiculously heavy horseshoe
In an arms race of completely useless giant objects, they forged a piece of metal so heavy it could crush a tank. It serves absolutely no purpose other than…
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Kansas City Missouri scattered giant shuttlecocks on grass
In a spectacular display of bizarre public art, enormous badminton accessories are strewn across a lawn as if an aggressively massive game was suddenly…
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Slab City has no municipal utilities
For those who find basic utilities like running water and electricity completely overrated, this squatter community offers the ultimate off-grid nightmare. It…
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Deadhorse, Alaska, is a town built for industry
Pretending this is a functional community is hilarious when it is essentially just a frozen parking lot for heavy machinery. With virtually no permanent…
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The California town with far more dead than living
When your town has 1,000 dead people for every living resident, you know the nightlife is absolutely abysmal. Colma was literally established as a massive…
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The Illinois town that proudly calls itself Normal
Any place that has to loudly declare how standard it is in its official name is immediately deeply suspicious. It feels like a massive front for something…
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The Illinois town named after its shape
Naming a place purely after a rectangle that has been stretched out is an incredibly lazy approach to founding a community. It offers absolutely nothing of…
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Climax Michigan offers absolutely zero excitement
Despite a name that promises a spectacular finale to your journey, the reality is a completely dull patch of Midwestern dirt. It is the ultimate exercise in…
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Virginia has a town named Bland
You cannot accuse this place of false advertising. The founders took one look at the rolling hills, realized they had nothing of value to offer the world, and…
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The neighborhood that legally remains part of an island
Through a bizarre feat of municipal dredging, this neighborhood was physically ripped away from its parent island and attached to the mainland. It legally…
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The Arkansas town named after a school district number
After having their initial suggestions violently rejected by the state, the fed-up locals just submitted their school district number. It is the geographic…
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Nowhere, Oklahoma is a real address
Telling someone you are in the middle of Nowhere is usually a metaphor, but here it is a verifiable postal address. It was named simply because it is…
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A town named Ding Dong really exists
Imagine having to write this absolute joke of a name on your tax returns every single year. It was named after a literal bell, ensuring the residents are…
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Bolivia has a landscape built from thousands of mounds
Looking at this sprawling area, you would assume the terrain naturally formed thousands of small hills. You would be wrong. The entire landscape is…
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