| Franklin, Salem, Washington, Springfield and Clinton. These are the most common names for places in the United States, all of them with more than 30 occurrences in different states. But in this section we list just the opposite, a bunch of places with unique, unusual names across the US, names that make these towns and villages special. They can be surprising, funny, moving, even stunning, most of the times accidentally, but not always. Who can accidentally call a place “Truth Or Consequence"? How on earth can you be naive calling a little village “Earth”, “Center Of The World” (or, far more ambitiously, “Cosmos”)? | We can understand that you mean something else when you name a place "Intercourse", “Weed” or “Cumming”, but how can you possibly prevent us from thinking double senses? And how can’t we suspect there is a catch when approaching Zzyzx, in California? Did the people who came up with that name just want us to twist our tongue up or perhaps be the last ones in all kind of imaginable alphabetical listings? In any case, every name, every sign we present you here deserves to stand out as a monument to human wit, imagination... and sometimes misunderstanding. |
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