Try living in a town where everyone is reminded of this 21st-century malady on the daily. There is actually a reason for this weird name, and it goes back to the Civil War. The story goes that a ...

Massachusetts is well known for its strange and often hard to pronounce town names, and these towns are no exception.

Perhaps the most striking example of an unusual name on the map is Slaughter Beach, a tiny coastal community of about 220 residents, along the Delaware Bay. Founded in 1681, the town’s name ...

Balltown, Iowa is known for one thing. No, not THOSE... get your mind out of the gutter! It's known as the home of Iowa's ...

South Africa’s town names aren’t just strange - they’re stories, jokes, and riddles waiting to be decoded. Take a ...

A pair of mid-Missouri communities occupy a list of the state's "friendliest little towns." World Atlas recently refreshed ...

Putsonderwater (formerly Putzonderwater) is another town with a funny name. Many people refer to it as a ghost town because of its remote location and lack of activity or abandonment. Translated ...

Before your next Texas road trip, brush up on these tricky town names and see if you've been pronouncing these 15 town names ...

Welcome to Monsterville? Bad Meat? The End of the World? Polish Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska was especially fond of funny names of Polish towns and villages. Since great minds think alike… we ...