However, others believe the name derives from either Indians who burned settlers' crops, or vice versa. Eclectic in Elmore County, Ala., has been mentioned on numerous lists of strange place names.

The name describes the village’s geographical ... my sister told me about a very weird place called Hell. She said it is a tiny town in Norway. I felt strange, and I didn’t believe her at ...

The longest place name in Ireland. It’s a small village in the Connemara Gaeltacht between Camus and Carraroe, in County Galway. In Irish, this is "Muiceanach idir Dhá Sháile" – which ...

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 take a gander at ...

There sure are a lot of towns with strange names here in Texas.