What’s your favorite city name? I have a bunch, but Westward Ho! is definitely my current. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westward_Ho!
Westward Ho - Wikipedia

@glennf Ho-Ho-Kus
@blankbaby @glennf I live next to Ho-Ho-Kus and it never gets old to say it
@glennf still Truth or Consequences
@profmusgrave @glennf Mine too. A great place to visit. Hot tubs on the roof of the Charles Motel under the desert sky.
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one of the weirdest near me, Possum Grape Arkansas


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possum_Grape,_Arkansas
Possum Grape, Arkansas - Wikipedia

@griff @glennf I’ll see your Possum Grape and raise you with Pickles Gap, Booger Hollow, Weiner, and Weiner Cutoff Road. All real places. Guess where I grew up…😄
@glennf Washtucna Washington. Hard C
@glennf Definitely more of a village, but The Plains, Virginia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Plains,_Virginia
The Plains, Virginia - Wikipedia

@glennf city is pushing it for Westward Ho!
@Wil I forget that town and city are used quite strictly in the UK!
@glennf and village don't forget
@Wil We are the Village Green Preservation Society…
@glennf I like Hell (Michigan), as it often freezes over

@glennf Not a city but a world heritage site: Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

https://headsmashedin.ca/

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump World Heritage Site

Where the foothills of the Rocky Mountains meet the Great Plains sits one of the world’s largest, oldest, and best-preserved buffalo jumps.

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Don't ask me how I know this, but Yeehaw Junction, Fla on your side of the pond always amused me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeehaw_Junction,_Florida

Yeehaw Junction, Florida - Wikipedia

@prawn
I was going to mention that exact same place. I guess I'll go with Nada, TX.
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@prawn @glennf I’m pretty sure I’ve not only been through Yeehaw Junction, but actually ate at the Desert Inn 25-ish years ago…
@glennf Zzyzx bas been a favorite of mine since passing by it as a kid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zzyzx,_California
Zzyzx, California - Wikipedia

@glennf Knockemstiff, Ohio. When we first drove through the town we turned back to check the correctly read the sign! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knockemstiff,_Ohio
Knockemstiff, Ohio - Wikipedia

@glennf Well, it's a district rather than a city, but as we're on Mastodon, it has to be Tooting, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooting

Tooting - Wikipedia

@glennf Not a city, but quite a name.
@glennf hometown Michigan City which is, of course, in Indiana.
@glennf I'm partial to Jersey Shore, Pa., which is up way in the mountains about 4 hours away from any part of the Jersey Shore.

@glennf I started with Rough And Ready, California (pop. 963) and then of course Wikipedia has a list

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_names_considered_unusual

Place names considered unusual - Wikipedia

@glennf there’s a place called ‘Nasty’ in Hertfordshire
@glennf Zimna Wódka in Poland: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimna_Wódka Technically Wikipedia is correct, word "wódka" derives from "woda" - water, but colloquially it means "vodka".
So, Cold Vodka anyone? 🍹
Zimna Wódka - Wikipedia

@glennf I've always enjoyed Linthicum, MD, which sounds like something you'd find in a drugstore. (And neighboring Timonium, which sounds like it belongs on the periodic table of the elements.)
@glennf I am quite surprised that no one yet has mentioned Weed, CA!?

@glennf Not a town, but a remarkable (and fun) name...

Bumpass Hell!

A popular trail up in Lassen National Park with access to the largest hydrothermal area in the park! The sulphur ponds are nice and stinky too! :)

https://www.nps.gov/thingstodo/hikebumpasshell.htm

Hike to Bumpass Hell (U.S. National Park Service)

@glennf Hard to beat that. Also the late work by Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho.
Westward Ho! : Coastal Scenery

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@glennf there's a cafe in Westward Ho! that serves an amazing cream tea. Also, the ice cream van is a Land Rover

@glennf You can’t go wrong with a good bit of hyphenation. From the Norfolk coast I give you ‘Wells-next-the-Sea’. My favourite UK place name.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells-next-the-Sea

Wells-next-the-Sea - Wikipedia

@glennf my favourite is definitely Saint-Louis-du-Ha!-Ha!
https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Louis-du-Ha!_Ha!
Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! - Wikipedia

@glennf Just one exclamation mark? How about two?

Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Québec

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Louis-du-Ha!_Ha!

Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! - Wikipedia

@Shayman I forgot about the ha! ha!

Some kind of military redoubt

@glennf @Shayman

I always pronounce it like Nelson from the Simpsons. 😂 I just can’t do any different.

@Shayman I’m partial to the interrobang myself‽

@glennf Oconomowoc, Wisconsin!

Because when you finally figure out how to pronounce it you smile every time you say it.

@glennf In Belgium we have a village named 'Reet', which is Dutch for ass or buttocks.

When you enter the village, the inhabitants have placed a very big sign saying "welcome in our buttocks".

Gotta love it.

@dbuntinx @glennf together with Aar(t)selaar and Kontich they form the Anal Triangle (at least they do in our road trips.)

@glennf I have two:

Gotebo (go-tee-bo, go-ti-bo), OK — just because it’s fun to say

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotebo,_Oklahoma

Embarrass, MN — not ashamed to say it

https://www.embarrass.org

Gotebo, Oklahoma - Wikipedia

Truth or Consequences, New Mexico - Wikipedia

@glennf this village in Austria, which unfortunately changed its name

@mikec415 @glennf The funnies thing is that their local brewery created a beer called "Fucking Hell".

(Hell describes a beer which is brewed in a specific manner. Comparable to Lager (e.g. Heineke) but a tad different.)

@glennf this place
@mikec415 @glennf good ole’ Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapiki-maungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitnatahu. The Welsh truly have a way with words.
@glennf At the moment, Shitterton in Dorset. They had their sign stolen so many times that the whole town contributed toward having the name carved in a block of stone to place at the entrance to the town.
@glennf it’s like a city telling you to keep moving like those Depression-era billboards that told job seekers to keep going.