Texas has some of the strangest town names.
And then there's places like Paris, Texas that has an Eiffel tower monument with a cowboy hat on top. Though in this small town, they hold the Redbull UCI Pump track World Championship qualifiers. I've ridden there once, but should probably get out there more often. https://www.redbull.com/us-en/events/red-bull-pump-track-world-championship-paris-texas-usa
Paris, Texas, USA

Watch the riders get on a roll in Texas at this round of the 2022 Red Bull UCI Pump Track World Championships.

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Eiffel Tower (Paris, Tennessee) - Wikipedia

@ismh @mark no cowboy hat. 1 star.
@ismh @mark *cries in french*
@nileane @ismh @mark Ohio has not one, not two, but three places named Paris, yet for some reason they built our Eiffel Tower in Cincinnati
Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower, also known as the Kings Tower is the signature attraction of Kings Island, located in the International Street of the park. It opened alongside the park on April 29, 1972, and continues to operate to this day. Based on the French structure of the same name in Paris, the tower has been the primary symbol of the park ever since opening, and serves as an observation tower of the park. An identical tower exists at the nearby Cedar Fair park in Virginia, Kings Dominion. The Eiffel T

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The weird and wonderful world of Eiffel Tower replicas and derivatives - Geoguessr

Work to update this post is ongoing. More than 470 Eiffel Towers are now mapped on umap here. The map is generated from a .ods Spreadsheet that you can find on Nextcloud here - if there are errors or omissions in either the map or the table please let me

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@SherlockHans @nileane @ismh @mark oh there are half a dozen places called Paris in the USA. And they nearly all have Eiffel Towers. Although only Paris Texas embellished their tower.
@mark literally thought this was photoshop as I was scrolling
@mark Switzerland likes to contribute
@mark the cowboy hat on top makes this look like a shitpost
@mark I thought I was looking at a Super Mario Odyssey screenshot haha
@mark of course there is a parking lot right in front of the tower. That's how you can tell where it really is.
@mark In fairness, Texas is just strange at every level.
@twcau Can't argue with that. But from what I've noticed, Aussie's love it here! 😝
@mark Can’t say i’ve been one of them from the couple of times i’ve been. Still however not as bad as Florida *shudder*
@twcau It really depends on where you visit.
@mark Oh is that the place where the product “Ding Dong Ding”?

@mark Bumpass, Virginia would like a word.

(Apparently it's pronounced “Bumpuss”)

@caseyliss @mark May I direct you to the following places in Germany:
Mount Wank, Titz, Weener, Petting, Wangerland, Wankum, Titisee, Fucking, and Windpassing. (Though those last two are in Austria)
@caseyliss @mark New Jersey has entered the chat.
@caseyliss @mark lest we forget…Cuckoo, VA. 🤪
@mattwallin Goochland is right here and thus it’s been normalized in my head. Also a good one.

@caseyliss @mark
Us Brits are just old school and have places called things like Fingeringhoe. Nonetheless I’d prefer that to Shitterton.

https://www.countryfile.com/go-outdoors/britains-rudest-place-names

@caseyliss @mark y’all also have Manassas 🍑
@mark Sir, Climax, NC would like a word
Spanker Knob, Bullshit Hill and Guys Dirty Hole are all real places in Australia

From Bumcooler Flat (South Australia) to Kockup (Tasmania), we’ve rounded up some of Australia’s weirdest place names. Add your suggestions in the comments

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@bgrinter Apparently the people of Texas and Australia are from the same place. 😅
@mark England has entered the chat…
@mark Cut and Shoot, Dime Box, Flatonia, Telephone, Telegraph, Notrees, Circleback, Needmore. And besides Paris there’s Athens, Rhome (sic), Carthage, Palestine (pronounced Palesteen), and Italy.
@mark Nixon and Kenedy (sic) are about 50 miles apart.
@mark the name of the owner of our favorite Vietnamese restaurant is Dong Ding

@mark Newfoundland would like a word (the word is Dildo)

Also, Come By Chance, Conception Bay, Blow Me Down, Granny's Hole… Newfoundland is strange.

Runners-up include Vulcan, Alberta; Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Alberta; Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!,Quebec

@gnb @mark You forgot Spread Eagle!

@mark I mean, Texas. Amirite?

This road in California always made me laugh a little.

@mark I present, Bat Cave, NC
Ding Dong Song- Gunther (1080p HD)

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@mark Bald Knob, AR always made me giggle.