World’s Saddest Spots

mheredge

This online collection of maps show some of the world's saddest places - at least in name.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/6rJHGN/:DlYxRR$9:OKN9b0I!/www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sad-topographies-maps

For example, there are many routes to Misery. From the north, you can take the Rue du Jeu de Paume; from the east, the Rue de Licourt; and from the south, the Rue de Billy, a meandering asphalt track that winds past bare fields, under an open sky. Any of these will lead to this French village of around 140 residents, 90 miles north of Paris.

There's a Lonely Island and a Heartbreak Lake.

Do you know of any unusual place names? I used to have to giggle when I passed a village called Ugly near to where I grew up.

Practical_Severard

Once I learned there was Sodom town (Kirov province Shabalinsky county N 58° 11' 31.5024" E 47° 6' 59.7384" Postcode 612027
And as Google maps have revealed there is one in the UK near Liverpool.
There is also a river which name is translated as Seven Sins river.
Not sure whether those are really sad places, maybe just the opposite. Though there is Little Hope in TX, USA, that should be a sad place. They even have a church called in this way: The Little Hope Baptist Church.

GemmaRowlands

There is a "sad street" near where I live with my partner. I am not sure who thought that was a good idea!

mheredge

It seems that the US has more than its fair share of gloomy names for towns @Practical_Severard:

Point No Point, Washington
Dismal, North Carolina
Misery Bay, Michigan
Tombstone, Arizona
Cape Disappointment, Washington
Skull Island, Washington

Practical_Severard

> @mheredge said:
> It seems that the US has more than its fair share of gloomy names for towns
Canada isn't lagging behind

mheredge

Britain has some charming names for its towns. Maybe not so sad either @Practical_Severard. Names like Upton Snodsbury, Pucklechurch and Barton in the Beans.


http://mentalfloss.com/article/69445/43-charmingly-odd-british-town-names

Practical_Severard

An entrepreneur of the Russian city of Samara has built a fantasy medieval castle on the banks of Volga. That's been a wierd placement:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Замок+Гарибальди/@53.821892,49.085513,6z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xfa01543e1b8231d4!8m2!3d53.8218922!4d49.085513?hl=en-EN

Especially because it's neighbouring gardening allotments what adds some serfs into the scenery:
http://kleinburd.ru/news/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/0_1441c4_5894ffa7_orig.jpg

It's a kind of a hotel which website is http://www.garibaldicastle.com/castle/index.html

mheredge

Have you been here @Practical_Severard? It looks fascinating.

I sent the article about the Philippines to my friends who go there from time to time @Vok. It's dreadful the place has been so badly abused, especially for local people.

Practical_Severard

> @mheredge said:
> Have you been here @Practical_Severard? It looks fascinating.
>
> I sent the article about the Philippines to my friends who go there from time to time @Vok. It's dreadful the place has been so badly abused, especially for local people.

No, it's actually away from regular touristic routes.

Vok

I can't remember any places with unusual names off the top my head. I just wonder whether people living there in such places are affected in any way.

mheredge

Im not sure if I would like to live in a place with a sad name @Vok. But I suppose they just get used to comments and ignore them.

GemmaRowlands

mheredge said:

Im not sure if I would like to live in a place with a sad name @Vok. But I suppose they just get used to comments and ignore them.

Yes I think you would just start to think of it as home and you wouldn't think about what it was called once you had heard it enough times.

mheredge

But the poor ladies in Ugl'y, Essex who have to put with being members of the Ugly Women's Institute!