This town has had to invest in additional signs throughout the years, as it is often the target of thieves who think the name is funny. Originally called Cross Keys in the mid 1700s, the name ...

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 ...

WITH the 58th National Day around the corner, what better time to embrace our nation for all its diversity – especially its sometimes bizarre and funny 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 ...