One of the many pleasures of taking a road trip in the United States is stumbling across odd, offbeat, or sometimes even outrageous town, city, or village names. There are hundreds of such places in the country, and I've attempted to make a complete list below. I hope you enjoy this list, and I encourage you to spin through some of these places on your next road trip adventure, perhaps even stopping to take a photo of (or with) their welcome sign. Take note that the level at which you enjoy this list may heavily depend upon your maturity level!
If you know of any other town, city, or village names that are worthy of inclusion on this list, please send me an email. I am also looking to add more photographs to this page, and so if you have any photos of signs from these places that you'd like to share, that would be great.
✮ Accident, MD
✮ Allgood, AL
✮ Bacon, IN
✮ Badwater, CA
✮ Bald Knob, AR
✮ Bangs, TX
✮ Bat Cave, NC
✮ Beaver, UT
✮ Beebeetown, IA
✮ Best, TX
✮ Bigfoot, TX
✮ Big Bottom, WA
✮ Bird-in-Hand, PA
✮ Black Gnat, KY
✮ Bloody Corners, OH
✮ Blue Ball, PA
✮ Boar Tush, AL
✮ Boring, MD
✮ Boring, OR
✮ Boutte, LA
✮ Bowlegs, OK
✮ Bucksnort, TN
✮ Bugscuffle, TN
✮ Bumble Bee, AZ
✮ Burnt Cabins, PA
✮ Burnt Corn, AL
✮ Buttzville, NJ
✮ Carefree, AZ
✮ Celebration, FL
✮ Cheesequake, NJ
✮ Chicken, AK
✮ Chloride, AZ
✮ Chocolate Bayou, TX
✮ Christmas, AZ
✮ Christmas, FL
✮ Chugwater, WY
✮ Chunky, MS
✮ Climax, GA
✮ Climax, MI
✮ Climax, NC
✮ Colon, MI
✮ Condemned Bar, CA
✮ Cool, CA
✮ Cowpens, SC
✮ Cranky Corner, LA
✮ Cumming, GA
✮ Cut and Shoot, TX
✮ Dateland, AZ
✮ Dead Woman Crossing, WY
✮ Ding Dong, TX
✮ Disco, TN
✮ Do Stop, KY
✮ Dog Walk, KY
✮ Dolittle, MO
✮ Dry Prong, LA
✮ Dumfries, VA
✮ Dunmovin, CA
✮ Eek, AK
✮ Embarrass, MN
✮ Fame, WV
✮ Fertile, MN
✮ Fifty-Six, AR
✮ Finger, TN
✮ Fleatown, OH
✮ Flippin, AR
✮ Floyds Knobs, IN
✮ Forks of Salmon, CA
✮ French Lick, IN
✮ Friendly, WV
✮ Frog Eye, AL
✮ Funk, NE
✮ Gassaway, WV
✮ Gassville, AR
✮ George, WA (aka "George Washington")
✮ Gnaw Bone, IN
✮ Goodfood, MS
✮ Goodnight, TX
✮ Good Grief, ID
✮ Goofy Ridge, IL
✮ Goose Pimple Junction, VA
✮ Government Camp, OR
✮ Greasy, OK
✮ Gripe, AZ
✮ Gun Barrel City, TX
✮ Ham Lake, MN
✮ Handsome Eddy, NY
✮ Happy Camp, CA
✮ Happyland, CT
✮ Happyland, OK
✮ Hardmoney, KY
✮ Hardscrabble, DE
✮ Hazard, KY
✮ Hell, MI
✮ Hellhole Palms, CA
✮ Hippo, KY
✮ Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ
✮ Hooker, OK
✮ Hooker Point, FL
✮ Hopeulikit, GA
✮ Horneytown, NC
✮ Horseheads, NY
✮ Hot Coffee, MS
✮ Humansville, MO
✮ Humptulips, WA
✮ Hungry Horse, MT
✮ Husband, PA
✮ Ideal, GA
✮ Intercourse, PA
✮ Jackpot, NV
✮ Kiester, MN
✮ King of Prussia, PA
✮ Knob Noster, MO
✮ Knockemstiff, OH
✮ Last Chance, CA
✮ Left Hand, WV
✮ Liberal, KS
✮ Lick Fork, VA
✮ Lick Skillet, TN
✮ Licking, MO
✮ Lickskillet, OH
✮ Lizard Lick, NC
✮ Loafers Glory, NC
✮ Lonelyville, NY
✮ Loveladies, NJ
✮ Lovelady, TX
✮ Lovely, KY
✮ Luck, WI
✮ Luck Stop, KY
✮ Mars, PA
✮ Mashpee, MA
✮ Maybee, MI
✮ Mexican Water, AZ
✮ Mianus, CT
✮ Monkey's Eyebrow, KY
✮ Muleshoe, TX
✮ Nice, CA
✮ Niceville, FL
✮ Nimrod, AR
✮ Nimrod, OR
✮ No Name, CO
✮ Normal, AL
✮ Normal, IL
✮ North Pole, NY
✮ Nothing, AZ
✮ Notrees, TX
✮ Nowthen, MN
✮ Nutbush, TN
✮ Oatmeal, TX
✮ Oddville, KY
✮ Okay, OK
✮ Old Weiss And French Place, MT
✮ Onancock, VA
✮ Ordinary, KY
✮ Paradise, MI
✮ Paradise, PA
✮ Peculiar, MO
✮ Pee Pee, OH
✮ Picnic, FL
✮ Pig, KY
✮ Pie Town, NM
✮ Plain Dealing, LA
✮ Pony, MT
✮ Popcorn, IN
✮ Possum Grape, AR
✮ Possum Trot, KY
✮ Poverty, KY
✮ Prison Farm, MT
✮ Pumpkin Center, CA
✮ Pumpkin Town, SC
✮ Rabbit Hash, KY
✮ Rabbit Shuffle, NC
✮ Ransom, KS
✮ Reddick, FL
✮ Rolling Fork, MS
✮ Rough and Ready, CA
✮ Sac City, SD
✮ Sandwich, IL
✮ Sandwich, MA
✮ Santa Claus, IN
✮ Satans Kingdom, VT
✮ Scratch Ankle, AL
✮ Screamer, AL
✮ Shoofly, NC
✮ Shoulderblade, KY
✮ Skullbone, TN
✮ Skidmore, TX
✮ Slicklizzard, AL
✮ Snowflake, AZ
✮ Spearfish, SD
✮ Spread Eagle, WI
✮ Squim, WA
✮ Stab, KY
✮ Stiffknee Knob, NC
✮ Stinking Bay, AR
✮ Stumpy Point, NC
✮ Success, MO
✮ Sugar City, ID
✮ Sugar Tit, SC
✮ Surprise, AZ
✮ Sweet Lips, TN
✮ Tea, SD
✮ Telephone, TX
✮ The Bottle, AL
✮ Tightwad, MO
✮ Tillicum, WA
✮ Toad Hop, IN
✮ Toad Suck, AR
✮ Tortilla Flat, AZ
✮ Truth or Consequences, NM
✮ Turkey Scratch, AR
✮ Twig, MN
✮ Two Egg, FL
✮ Two Dot, MT
✮ Ty Ty, GA
✮ Unalaska, AK
✮ Uncertain, TX
✮ Uranus, MO
✮ Virgin, UT
✮ Wahoo, NE
✮ Walla Walla, WA
✮ Wartrace, TN (pronounced War Trace, not Wart Race!)
✮ Wealthy, TX
✮ Weed, CA
✮ Weed, NM
✮ Weedpatch, CA
✮ Weiner, AR
✮ Welfare, TX
✮ West Thumb, WY
✮ Wham, LA
✮ What Cheer, IA
✮ Why, AZ
✮ Whynot, MS
✮ Wimauma, FL ("Why Moma?")
✮ Wimp, CA
✮ Wyckoff, NJ
✮ Yeehaw Junction, FL
✮ Yellow Water, FL
✮ Zap, ND
✮ Zzyzx, CA
For those interested, Wikipedia.com often has interesting historical information as to how these incorporated town names came to fruition.
