Places with strange names. Trips

Each of these cities is small, but unique. You might want to visit one of these unusual settlements.

City where you can't die

Longyearbyen in Norway is one of the northernmost settlements and a place where you officially cannot die. There is a cemetery here, but it has not been used for 70 years.

The reason is the extreme cold, which prevents the bodies from decomposing and makes them attractive to wildlife. People who could soon die are transported to the more southern parts of Norway by plane.

A city spanning two countries

Cities that are located on the territory of two states at once is a much more common phenomenon than you might imagine, but this one is the most unusual of all. Büsingen am Hochrhein is a German exclave in Switzerland. Economically it is part of Switzerland, administratively part of Germany.

It is the only city in the country where the Swiss franc is used as the main currency. There are two postal codes here at once: German and Swiss. Residents of the city call both German and Swiss numbers, and football club Büsingen is the only German club playing in the Swiss League.

The most infernal city

In the US state of Michigan, you can find Hell, namely the city called Hell. The origin of the name is unknown, but the residents are happy to keep it to maintain their city's hellish image.

Tourists happily take pictures next to signs that say "Welcome to Hell" and you can buy six square centimeters of Hell for $6.66 at the local gift shop.

Austrian city in China

The Chinese are known for being able to make a good copy of everything in the world, including an entire city. To be able to travel without leaving the country, they decided to create their own version of the Austrian town of Hallstatt.

First the church was built, and then streets began to surround it, which are exact copies of the original. Incidentally, real estate prices in Hallstatt, China are higher than in Austria.

Last free city

Slab City is a city in California populated by homeless people, retirees, and people in general who have nowhere else to go. They live in trailers and makeshift shacks with no addresses and no running water or electricity. There are no rents here utilities, no taxes.

It all sounds uncomfortable, but many people who have visited this city have reported that it is very pleasant. The locals call their house "the last free city in America".

cave city

Matmata in Tunisia is the city where most of the underground Berber dwellings remain inhabited.

Ground houses were built here in the seventies, but locals prefer to stay in their underground dwellings. Star Wars fans will quickly realize that this place is Luke Skywalker's home.

City under one roof

An entire city in the state of Alaska is located in a 14-story building that was previously a large military facility. Here you will find shops, a police station, a hospital, and a church.

The purpose of this decision was to save on heating, as the weather here is always cold and windy. The population of the city is 220 people.

The bluest city

The walls, doors and even the stairs of the incredibly beautiful Chavin in Morocco are painted in various shades of blue.

According to one of the main theories, the city was painted by the Jews who lived here, since blue is a sacred color for them. The Jews have long since left this city, but the tradition remains.

alien city

In 1947, a UFO crashed near the city of Roswell. What actually fell next to the city is still unknown, but Roswell became known as "Alien City".

Themed festivals are held here, and even the local McDonald's is decorated in the appropriate style.

City on the high seas

Oil Rocks is an Azerbaijani industrial city. It is located in the open sea on metal platforms over an oil field.

No one lives permanently in this city. About two thousand workers come here for several months to work in shifts.

City in the rock

Setenil de las Bodegas is a city in Spain that attracts the attention of tourists from all over the world, mainly due to the fact that it is built right into a large basalt rock.

There are streets here, over which hangs not the sky, but tons of basalt rock. It may seem that they are about to fall on you, but they have been holding on for many centuries.

A city where there are more dead than living

There are 17 cemeteries in Colma, California. The ratio of the dead to the living here is a thousand to one! This happened due to the fact that at one point the authorities decided to move all the cemeteries from nearby San Francisco to here.

Previously, the population of this town consisted exclusively of gravediggers, monument makers and florists, but in the eighties, specialists from other fields began to flock here. To date, the city's motto is: "It's good to be alive in Kolma!"

Of course, the Russian people have no problems with fantasy. But with the names of most settlements, apparently, they didn’t bother much. As a result, we have: approximately 44% of the names are repetitive. A third of them are named by name (Ivanovka, Mikhailovo, Aleksandrovka ...), and a quarter - by nature (Sosnovka, Berezovka, Kalinovka ...). It is understandable: before, without “brainstorming” and creative agencies somehow managed. But among the 165,000 rural settlements, 1,300 urban-type settlements and 1,100 cities of Russia, there are real "pearls" of extraordinary folk thought! The names that stick in memory are about a thousand. Together with the regional editions of KP, we selected two hundred of the most, in our opinion, the most strange and funny of them.

Let's start with the Perm region. There is a Tupiza village here. We don't know why it is so...

Or here is the village of Suchkino. I wonder how the locals feel about this name.

It is no less interesting how the inhabitants of the Dude village seem to be. "My name is Valera. I'm a dude? By the way, the sign near the village, as you can see in the photo, is worn out ... But in Dudes they don’t worry about this.

And there is in Perm region Gorshki village.

And the village of Rozhki, consonant with them.

There are sparrows.

And there are mosquitoes. Hmm, who dares to go there in the summer?

A photo: ALEXEY ZHURAVLEV true_kpru

And the village of Putino. Also available.

And here is the village of Khomyaki. “Seems like someone is eating too much!?” - I remembered from the fairy tale about Winnie the Pooh.

In addition, in the Perm Territory there are such interesting settlements as Balaguri, Pakli, Zaitsy and ... Freedom!

Fast forward to Krasnodar region. Here, not only settlements please, but also rivers. There are, for example, the rivers Herota, Sheep, Kura-Tsetse ..

And from the villages stood out Battery, For the Motherland, Turkey, Chushka, Pyatikhatki. Among the farms - Oasis, First Sinyukha, Middle Chuburki, Watchmen First, Labor Armenia, Wide gap.

But the coolest, perhaps, the name of the village in this region is Merry Life. You pass by - and that's it, the fun life is over ...

In Bashkiria, there are also settlements with life-affirming names. For example, the village of Vperyod. Why not daily motivation?

- Where are you going ?

- I'm in Forward!

By the way, local residents are sometimes called Vperdinians, then Vperdyuks ... As you like. And how right - we have not yet found out.

Also in Bashkiria, the village of Druzhba is known (the locals call it Druzhbane). And then there is Mars, Paris and Venice. In general, the universe is right in miniature.

Let's move on to the Irkutsk region. There is a Zady village here. Against the background of the sign, they love to take pictures from the back ... But in terms of popularity among selfie lovers, Zada ​​bypassed the village with the sonorous name Lokhovo.

The village of Antibes is located in the Kemerovo region. And with her Drachenino and Uporovka.

The Tyumen region is also famous for its long list of funny names. There is Kokuy, Partizan, Expanse, Vagina, Half, Plump, Shortness of breath, Goldobino, Sour, Beautiful, Nevolino, Elbows, Bad, Kinder, Cotton wool, Politotdelsky, Shot.

AT Chelyabinsk region, as in Bashkiria, it also has its own Paris. And Ferchanpenoise is available. And even the villages of Leipzig with Berlin.

There are such unusual villages in Udmurtia: Muki-Kaksi, Baldeyka, Podmoy, Kosolapovo, Karavai, Foals, Babino, Luke, Chur, Uzi. And the villages: Skates, Zabegalovo, Birch, Krasny Kustar, Bannoe, Roosters, Boar, Kozlovo, Sheep, Small Game and Big Game, Ubytdur, Grab, Vanya-Chumo, Adam.

But the most creative people, apparently, live in the Pskov region! The cities of Dno, Opochka, Pytalovo are lit there ... And the villages: Ulcers, Torchilovo, Babki, Badgers, Bolshoy Khochozh, Sos, Blagodat, New Opel, Lobok ...

... Kozyulki, Washers, Kissing, Teeth, Crooked Hats, Lamons, Undersized ...

... as well as Zhizhitsa, Mokriks, Swellings, Buttocks, Redseat, Ale, Grandfather-Kabak, Bald-Flies, Zanogi, Quickly, Big Wands, New Life.

In the Sverdlovsk region, there are such cities: Nizhnie Sergi, Rezh, Novaya Lyalya (and the village of Staraya Lyalya - this is all Novolyalinsky urban district). And the villages - Upper Sinyachikha, Lower Sinyachikha, Laya, Red Adui.

AT Yaroslavl region- Woe-Mud, Wheat, Zhupeevo, Bukhalovo.

In the Voronezh region there is Khrenishche.

In Kaluga - the village of Zhivotinki. The name is quite harmless and to the point: after all, a livestock farm is located here.

AT Lipetsk region there is a village Zasosnaya. In Vologda there are two whole villages with the name End (and there are eight of them in Russia).

In Crimea, there is the city of Saki, from which the locals made the city of Psaki. Thus, they allegedly banned the entry of the famous American woman.

There are also quite a few unusual and funny names in the Trans-Baikal Territory. For example, in the Priargunsky district there is the village of Duroy. There is also the village of Klichka, which is named after a mining engineer. In the Sretensky district there is a village Bolshiye Boty. Not far from the regional capital there is a village Ulety. And in the Chernyshevsky district there is the village of Ukurei. In Khiloksky district - Khokhotuy.

And in Murmansk region there is the village of Afrikanda. Under the snow, Afrikanda looks especially exotic.

AT Saratov region there is a village Loh.

And in Omsk - Babezh, Big scourges, Big purrs, Lupus, Zagvazdino, Couch, Prishib. In Samara - the village of Koshki (this is the sister city of Myshkin, Yaroslavl Region). In Penza - Tatarskaya Pendelka, Chulpan, Bogdanikha, Bright Way, Frontier, GAI. In Vladimir region stand out: the village of Krasnaya Gorbatka, the village of Perebor, the village of Likhaya Pozhnya. In Bryansk - Mamai, Bibiki, Zaitsev Dvor, Crimea, Varna, Bald, New Scales, Ushcherpye, Gobiki, Badgers, Byakovo, Sluchok, New World, Cheerful, Hooks, Bobrik, Gnilevo, Usokh, Lizogubovka, Spoons, Ugrevishche, Shiryaevka, Shapkino ... And in the Khabarovsk Territory there is a village of Kondon. In the Smolensk region - the village of Boduny. In Tambov - Bolshaya Rzhaksa.

In Mordovia, you can find settlements with the following names: Piksiasi, Chudinka, Red Warrior, Syryatino, Sialeevsky Maidan. In Chuvashia - the village of Bolshoye Murashkino, the village of Experienced, the village of Khachiki. In Mari El - the village of Surok.

in Troitsky administrative district Moscow has the village of Babenki.

And in the Ryazan region there was once a village of Lost Paradise. Now no one lives there. This is a tract. I think a much more friendly atmosphere - in local village Good Bees.

In the Kostroma region there is a village Pyankovo.

The Altai Territory distinguished itself with the settlements of Chistaya Griva, Komar, Zyatkovo, Vysokaya Griva, Good will, Beshentsevo, Raygorod, Freedom Valley, Lokotok, Pravda.

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory you can find Minderla, Oblique Spoons, Shalobolino and Cucumbers.

There you will be intrigued by the village with mysterious name Secret. Why The Secret? It's a secret…

BY THE WAY

5 interesting facts about settlements in Russia

1) The settlement "Central estate of the state farm named after the 40th anniversary of the Great October Revolution" - the longest name of the settlement in the country. I wonder if it annoys the locals to have to pronounce or write this ho-hoo-long name somewhere in the documents?

2) Verkhnenovokutlumbetyevo and Starokozmodemyanovskoye are the longest continuous names of settlements. It seems that they have been there since childhood, and everyone is ready to work as an announcer on TV. After all, until you say where you are from ...

3) Names of two letters in Russia are 46 settlements. Of these, 11 - Yar. And there is, for example, Yb - in Komi there are as many as three villages with the same name. Remember this to stun your opponents when playing "city-village".

4) There are only two settlements in the country with the name Y. These are Yoshkar-Ola and Yosefovka (a village in the Smolensk region).

5) And the names of 27 settlements in Russia begin with the letter Y. Almost all of them are in Yakutia. These are, for example, Ytyk-Kyuel and Ylymakh. In general, there are cities in our country with absolutely all letters, excluding the soft and hard signs, of course.

It cannot be said that there are very diverse names of settlements on the territory of Russia. In 45% of the names are repeated. The most common are: Mikhailovka, Berezovka, Pokrovka, and there are as many as 166 settlements with the name Aleksandrovsk. But there are such names that glorified the city throughout the country, and without an attractive history, fame came to the settlement only because of the name.

The Moscow region also boasts interesting names of its villages. One of these is Durykino. By the way, a few residents who still live here are even proud of this name, because Peter I himself gave it. During the construction, the king needed a huge amount of eggs, a cry was given throughout the country. The inhabitants of modern Durykino overdid it and brought not fresh, but boiled eggs to the place where the walls were erected. It was then that the king called the inhabitants of the village fools, and over time the name stuck.

The list of cities with funny names can also include a settlement called Radio (Odintsovo district). Although the origin of the name is very trivial. The settlement formed around the antenna receiving end point, at the site of a radio link test site.

In the Solnechnogorsk region there is a village called Black Dirt. There are two versions of the origin of the name. According to one of them, the name of the settlement is associated with a river that flows there and has very muddy waters. According to another legend, allegedly Catherine II, having stopped on the way from St. Petersburg to Moscow, got out of the carriage and soiled her snow-white shoes. It seemed to the queen that the land here was too black, and so they began to call the village - Black Mud.

Mamyri is another unique name for a village in the Moscow region. According to one of the legends, the name comes from the French expression Ma Marie!, that is, "Mother Marie." Legend has it that in ancient times, a Frenchman called one of the villagers on dates for a very long time, constantly repeating "Mama Marie." So the locals called their settlement.

According to another version, before her death, a local landowner married a Frenchman and, sensing her death, rewrote the village to her husband, indicating in the hereditary document “The village of Mon Mari should be transferred to such and such”. In the future, they simply corrected the name to be more consonant with the Russian language.

By the way, in the Novo-Fominsk region there is also a village with the same name.

There is in this district the city of Novaya Lyalya (Sverdlovsk region). About 12 thousand people live in it. However, the first mention of the settlement is in the annals of 1723, however, it is considered the official date of foundation. In that year, they began to build a copper smelter, near the village of Karaulskoye. However, historians doubt very much that 1723 can be considered the date of foundation.

And why the city was named Novaya Lyalya (Sverdlovsk region) is not at all clear, there are no documented data. Like most cities in the Urals, this one was founded around industrial enterprise for copper mining.

Lower Sergi in Sverdlovsk region They also have an interesting name, but the city got its name because of its location - on the Serga River. It was based on railway and ironworks. At the time of its foundation, about 20 mines had already been developed in the district.

Another city is Rezh, Sverdlovsk region, located on the river of the same name. The date of foundation is considered to be 1773. The origin of the name is not known for certain. There is a version that translated from the Mansi language means "rocky shores". Indeed, the city of Rezh, Sverdlovsk Region, stands on the river of the same name, where there are more than 60 large rocks. According to another version, the name comes from the word "duct". But there is more than the origin of the name of the river. In distant times, when in a place modern city The first settlers appeared, one of them, seeing the steep banks at the confluence of the river with the Neva, exclaimed: "Fathers, he seems to be cutting the Neva." And so the name "Director" appeared.

There is in Opochka. It is believed that the first fortress in these places appeared 800 years ago. And the title locality received because of sedimentary rocks that have a gray-whitish color, called "flask", which were used for construction. And so the name was preserved - the city of Opochka, which for a long time played a huge defensive role for Russia.

There are interesting names in the Pskov region. For example, the city of Dno. Small in size and number of inhabitants, a little over 7 thousand people. This name is associated with the Russian word "Bottom", which has several meanings, in particular, it means - the lowest part of the valley. But the city of Dno is known for the events of 1917. It is believed that here railway station Nicholas II signed his abdication.

On the Morning River there is a small settlement - the city of Pytalovo. According to one version, the town was named after the owner of these lands - Lieutenant Pytalov (1766).

Volgograd region

There is a village in this area with an interesting name - Tsatsa. In fact, the word "tsatsa" from the Kalmyk language means "Buddhist chapel". And Buddhists in this area call clay figurines that are placed with the dead as a symbol of positive energy.

Irkutsk region

There is a village of Lokhovo in the Irkutsk region, which can be included in the list of cities with funny names. Surely many have heard about this settlement, as there was even a television scandal on the issue of renaming (2005). Then the locals began to defend the name and even gathered a rally against the renaming. So, the village of Lokhovo remained on the map, which was named, by the way, in honor of Mikhail Lokhov, a local rich farmer who did a lot for these places.

Kaluga region

There is a city with funny name in this area - Deshovki. One version of the origin of the name goes back to the time of the Mongol-Tatar yoke. When all the cities in the district were taken, except for Kozelsk, the inhabitants of the modern village of Deshovka asked for the walls of the fortified town. The inhabitants of Kozelsk took pity and let the villagers, with whom the Tatars passed. Thus, the name Deshovka was preserved outside the village, that is, people who sold their fellows almost for nothing.

Oryol Region

There is another city in this district with a funny name - Mymrino, by the way, the birthplace of G. Zyuganov. The landowner gave this name to the settlement, which, according to legend, had a terrible character and was very cruel.

Buryatskaya AO

There is a village in this area with the funny name Zady. The name appeared in Soviet times due to the fact that the most profitable business for the local population was the sale of manure. So the village was given its official name. Although there is another that was earlier - Durlai, named after one of the Buryat brothers, the founders of the villages in these places.

Kemerovo region

The official name of the village Starye Worms is Starochervovo. However, the popular name has taken root more and is even listed at a bus stop located on the highway. It is believed that the official name comes from the word "worm", that is, red. In the old days, chervonets were made from an alloy of copper and gold, which was mined here. And where the name Old Worms came from is not clear, either because the gold diggers in the process of work are very similar to worms, or because such a name is easier to pronounce.

Ryazan Oblast

This area also boasts Russian cities with unusual names. One of these is Good Bees. This name is associated with beekeeping. Earlier, when there was a wasteland, the monks of the Theological Monastery collected honey here in a natural apiary. In this context, the word "kind" means "good" or "the best".

By the way, there are other interesting villages in the area - Dobry Sot and Pasika.

Voronezh region

There is a village Khrenovoye in this area. It was founded in the 18th century. In the old days, on the banks of the Bityug River, where the village stands, there was logging. Later, Count Orlov founded a stud farm on these lands. By the way, a school of equestrians still operates in the village.

According to one version, the name was given due to the fact that horseradish grows very abundantly in these places. According to another version, when Catherine II passed here, she simply said “Bad road”, and the name for the settlement was fixed - Horseradish.

There is a village in these places with interesting title- Vydropuzhsk. In ancient writings from the 16th century, the village is referred to as Vydrobozhsk. According to one version, the name was given because of the large population of otters in these places. But since the village is located on the road where Catherine II often passed, there was a story about her. It is said that once the queen was walking in these places and was frightened of the otter. In honor of this "noble" event, the meeting of the otter and the queen, they decided to rename the village from Vydrobozhsk to Vydropuzhsk. But the most interesting thing is that the locals claim that there have never been otters in these places.

Zabaykalsky Krai

In the Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky district, probably, very cheerful people lived earlier. Here is the village of Khokhotuy, which stands on the Duralei River, and another river flows nearby with the same name as the village - Khokhotuy. The settlement appeared during the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway (1899).

Although there is a version that the name comes from the Buryat word "hogot", which translates as "birch". According to another legend, from the word "hohtotuy", that is, "the place where the road lies."

10 chose

How many amazing cities in the world! Some are famous for their craftsmen, others for historical sights, others attract guests with fun carnivals or festivals, and the fourth - with their own names. When people settle in a new place and establish a settlement, they come up with a name for this place. It can be associated with a legend, with the name of a hero, with the area where it is located, or with some kind of event. But sometimes the name causes complete bewilderment - why? Why was this place named so?

Cities of the world

That is exactly what the town in the state of Arizona (USA) is called - Why (why). Either its first settlers themselves were surprised why it occurred to them to stay here, or because of the transcription of the letter Y, as the official version says and the intersection of roads on which stands why.

In Germany, in the state of Bavaria, a city flourishes Kissing. A city with such a name cannot fail to flourish. I wonder if there is some special tradition associated with kissing here, or if the city glorified some famous kiss?

If something in life has failed you, try to go to South Africa. It is here that the city for the most persistent is located - try again and… try again!

Rafting enthusiasts have their own heavenly place for their hobby - a city named Slime (Dirt). For romantics in England there is a very nice place - the city Roseberry Topping (Strawberry Topping). But where I would not like to go is to a town in the Cayman Islands called Hell). Yes, the place is gloomy, located among the rocks. Here anyone can exclaim: "I live in Hell!". But tourists really like to send postcards from here to their friends - straight from Hell.

Sometimes a city with the most common name changes it to a more original one. So it happened with the resort town Hot Springs (Hot springs), whose inhabitants decided to change his name to Truth or Consequences (Truth or Consequences), yielding to temptation. The organizers of the game show of the same name promised to move production to a city that would be named after the program.

The city with the most long title also worthy of being mentioned among the unusual - Taumatauakatangiangakoauauotamateapokanuenuakitanatahu. It is located in New Zealand and means the following - "The top where Tamatea Pokai Uenua played the flute for his beloved." Beautiful, isn't it? In contrast, there is a city that is just an empty place, which is how the name of the town Noodle (Noodle) sounds in Texas slang. And how to live in cities with the name Spot (Spot), Monkey's Eyebrow (Monkey Eyebrow) or even worse Idiotville (Idiotville). I can’t even imagine what the inhabitants of these cities and towns answer when asked where they come from?

And we have?

On the pillar path

Seven men came together:

Seven temporarily liable,

tightened province,

County Terpigorev,

empty parish,

From adjacent villages:

Zaplatova, Dyryaeva,

Razutova, Znobishina,

Gorelova, Neelova -

Crop failure too...

There are many cities around the world with strange names. And our country is no exception! If you happened to travel by car across the expanses of our vast country with you, then you also met funny, funny and even such original titles that do not withstand censorship .... But people thought when they called the place where they were going to live! Although, maybe it's all the tricks of the neighbors?

Judge for yourself: Bolshoy Pupsy (a village in the Tver region), Deshevki (a village in the Kaluga region), Such (a village on Sakhalin), Bolshoye Struikino (a village in the Novgorod region), Ovnishche (a village in the Tver region), Dno ( a city near Pskov), Trusovo (a village in the Komi Republic), Kosyakovka (a village in Bashkiria), Krutye Khutor (a village in the Lipetsk region), Novopozornovo (a village in the Kemerovo region), Bolotnaya Rogavka (a village in the Novgorod region), Old Worms (a village in the Kemerovo Region), Verkhnye Zachatie (a village in the Chekhov District), Durakovo (a village in the Kaluga Region), Hare Bubble (a river in the Kemerovo Region), Kozyavkino (a village in the Kemerovo Region), Tsatsa (Volgogradskaya region), Zveronozhka (a river in the Moscow region), Mukhodoevo (a village in the Belgorod region), Yes-yes (a village in the Khabarovsk Territory), Bolshoye Bukhalovo (a village in the Vologda region), Zhabino (a village in Mordovia), Dudes (a village in the Perm region), Musorka (a village in the Ulyanovsk region), Bezvodovka (a village in the Ulyanovsk region) and even Good Bees (in the Ryazan region)!

And to live in the city of Swastika or in the city of the Kingdom of Satan, perhaps, only people with a good sense of humor can. And it should be noted that these are not the strangest names in existence.

1. Swastika

City of Swastika in Ontario, Canada - pretty strange place. In fact, this is not a Nazi haunt at all - the city was founded almost 30 years before Adolf Hitler began to use the swastika. The name of the city was chosen in honor of the ancient Indian sign of well-being and fertility.

2. Kingdom of Satan

In a funny and strange way, there are cities and geographic places on Earth named after hell. For example, two cities in the USA (in the states of Vermont and Massachusetts) are called the Kingdom of Satan.

3. Peniston

The name of the town of Peniston in Yorkshire, England, probably derives from older forms of Welsh and English. Originally, the name meant "Hilltop Village". Today, everyone who is not lazy is giggling over him.

4. Nothing

The formerly inhabited (although very few people lived in it) village of Nothing in Arizona was completely abandoned in 2005. A sign at the entrance to the city says: "The devoted citizens of Nothing are full of hope and faith in the need for work. For many years these people believed in Nothing, hoped for Nothing and worked for Nothing."

5. North Pole

There are cities with the name of the North Pole in the states of Alaska and New York. New York's North Pole has a theme park with live reindeer and Santa Claus.

6. Nameless

Nameless - a small town in the state of Colorado, which got its name when a highway was planned to be laid in this place with a turn to the still non-existent city. During the construction of the road, a temporary sign with the inscription "Nameless" was installed at the turn. In the end, the name stuck.

7. Moon

To the northwest of Pittsburgh there is a town called Luna, which was probably so named because it is located in a crescent-shaped bend in the river.

8. Mars

Tourists in recent times often visit the city of Mars in Pennsylvania. Not only is a non-working former spaceship installed in the city, but you can also say that you visited the Martians (that's what the locals are called).

9. George Washington

George Washington is the only city in the United States that bears the full name of its founding father.

10. Ganja

The city with the most Rastaman name can be found in Azerbaijan. Moreover, this is not even a village that was named as a joke, but the second largest city in the country.

11. Chinatown

Chinatowns or Chinatowns exist in major cities all over the world, but there is an entire city in Wisconsin that bears the same name.

12. Batman

Everyone knows the famous comic book hero, but few people know that in Turkey, in the province of Batman, on the banks of the Batman River (a tributary of the Tigris River), there is a city of Batman. The main local attractions are oil refineries and a large military air base.

13. Bastardtown

Bastardtown in County Wexford, despite its name, is a picturesque seaside Irish village.

14. Å

The settlement with such a laconic name is a beautiful seaside village in the very north of Norway. Also, six other Norwegian towns, Swedish and Danish cities have a similar name.

15. Accident

Interestingly, the town of Accident was built in the 1770s in Western Maryland by accident. Two surveyors were marking the ground by randomly choosing the same oak tree as a reference point. It was on that spot that the city was founded.