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{{trope}}
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{{quote|'''Agent:''' We have places your family can hide in peace and security: Cape Fear, Terror Lake, New Horrorfield, Screamville --
'''Homer:''' ''(enthusiastically)'' Ooh, Ice Creamville!
'''Agent:''' Er, no, Screamville.
'''Homer:''' ''(scared)'' Aah!
|''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', "Cape Feare"}}
Some cities have [[Cutesy Name Town|cute names]]. Some [[Istanbul (Not Constantinople)|weird names]]. And some have [[City with No Name|no name at all]].
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Related to [[Doomy Dooms of Doom]]. The location counterpart to [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]. The inverted version of this trope would be [[Super Fun Happy Thing of Doom]], except in that trope, the thing ''must'' be actually bad.
{{examples|You probably won't want to visit places with names like these:}}▼
▲{{examples|You probably won't want to visit places with names like these:}}
== Anime
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' has the "Gravekeeper's Palace". Naturally, it's the [[Very Definitely Final Dungeon]] of the previous generation, and the current{{when}} group is currently{{when}} headed there as well.
* In ''[[Makai Senki Disgaea]]'', Episode 6:
{{quote|'''Flonne:''' It's exactly like Sardia said! "Go through the Forest of Evil, crawl along the Cliffs of Despair, and cross the Bridge of the Damned."}}
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* [[Evil Overlord|Claw's]] hideout Dead River from ''[[Kimba the White Lion]]''.
== Comic Books ==
== Comics ==▼
* ''[[Batman]]'': Crime Alley. Also Blüdhaven.
** Crime Alley was only given that name after all the... crime... that happened there. It was originally called the much tamer "Park Row".
** Gotham itself would count as this a bit, though at least it was founded a couple hundred years before the 'gothic' genre became a class of stylized horror story.
** "Arkham" has been a word that has suggested madness even before [[Bedlam House| Arkham Asylum]] first appeared (in ''Batman #258'', October 1974) having been the name of a city that appeared in at least three of [[H. P. Lovecraft]]'s stories.
* ''[[Superman]]'': One Metropolis neighborhood's name on city maps is Hob's Bay, but the locals call it something else: Suicide Slum.
** It's where the more successful versions of [[Lex Luthor]] hail from. Other origin stories include Smallville and [[Overlord, Jr.]].
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* [[Daredevil]] and Hell's Kitchen. That said, Hell's Kitchen is a real neighborhood in New York. (It has become considerably safer and more upscale in the decades since Daredevil was first launched. But the Marvel Universe cares not.)
* [[Fantastic Four]]: [[Egopolis|Doomstadt]], capital city of Latveria. Dr. Doom named several other towns in Latveria after himself as well.
* [[Red Scare|Joe McCarthy]] Elementary, future Alma Mater of Amelia and her friends in ''[[Amelia Rules!]]''. The school motto is: "Weeding out the wrong element since 1952".
* In ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', there are several of these. You know Calvin is awesome when you see that he has the nerve to sled down a hill named Grim Reaper Gorge or Mount Maim. At least, until you realize [[Invoked Trope|he's probably the one who named them]].▼
* Slaughter Swamp, birthplace of Solomon Grundy in [[The DCU]].
* The ''[[Ms. Tree]]'' story "The Devil's Punchbowl" involves the investigation of a murder at a geological feature known as 'the Devil's Punchbowl'. (There are actually several places in the real world bearing this name.)
== Fan
* The Death Zone, the Dark Tower, and the [[Doomy Dooms of Doom|Doom Satellite]] from ''[[Calvin and Hobbes: The Series]]''.
== Films -- Animation ==
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{{quote|'''Crash''': Why is it called the "Gorge of Death"?
'''Buck''': We tried calling it "The Big Smelly Crack" but people kept giggling. }}
== Films -- Live Action ==
* ''[[King Kong]]'': Skull Island.
** In the [[Peter Jackson]] version, Denham [[
{{quote|'''Driscoll:''' Why would [the crew] be spooked? What's [the island] called?
'''Denham:''' Alright, it has a local name, but I'm warning you Jack, it doesn't sound good. }}
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* The title town from ''[[Darkness Falls]]''. Nope, nothing bad ever happens there. Honest.
* [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[Without a Paddle]]'' when [[Seth Green]]'s character asks why all the places that they have to travel to have Satanic names.
* In ''[[Batman Forever]]'', Riddler builds his base on Claw Island. [[The Agony Booth]]'s [
* ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'': "Seek you the Bridge of Death!"
** Where, if you get a question wrong, "you are cast into the Gorge of Eternal Peril."
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* ''[[Aliens]]'' - LV-426 is cheerily named ''Acheron''. When you name places after rivers in Hell, they can't be good.
* Sufferton from ''Seed''.
* The horror movie ''[[Jennifer's Body]]'' takes place in the town of Devil's Kettle, Minnesota.
* Pick a ''[[Lone Wolf]]'' book. Any ''Lone Wolf'' book. On the off chance that the trope doesn't appear in the title (''[[Doomy Dooms of Doom|The Chasm of Doom]]'', ''The Kingdoms of Terror'', ''Castle Death'', ''The Jungle of Horrors'' and more), then it'll still most likely be present in the book somewhere.▼
== Literature ==
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** Also Cirith Ungol and assorted places. Frodo and Sam may be excused, because many location names are only told to the reader and not the protagonists. But it still adds some amusement to the chapter when you translate the elvish location names - and realize that they are trying to reach the ''Pass Of The Huge Evil Monster Spider'', climb the ''Stairs To The Pass Of The Huge Evil Monster Spider'' and finally enter the ''Cave Of The Huge Evil Monster Spider'' - and then slowly begin to wonder if that pass is ''really'' as unguarded as they thought...
** As ''The New Yorker'' noted in its review of [[The Movie]] of ''The Two Towers'', such a name definitely makes things easier when asking for directions.
* ''[[The Silmarillion]]'' by [[J. R. R.
* ''Shadowmarch'' from the eponymous novel by [[Tad Williams]].
* Played with in the ''[[Discworld]]'' book ''[[
** Nanny Ogg has a set of rules about places like Dontgonearthe Castle, which are basically a series of instructions that go "having ignored the previous instruction, don't perform the next step in your inevitable demise," up until you've met your inevitable demise, when it's "having been bitten by the vampire, don't come crying to me."
* The Blasted Heath from the ''[[The Colour Out of Space]]'' by HP Lovecraft.
* In [[Robert Louis Stevenson]]'s ''[[Treasure Island]]'', the eponymous island's name is Skeleton Island.
** Not exactly Canon, but in ''[[The Pyrates]]'', George Macdonald Frazer suggests that the Dead Man's Chest on which fifteen men were once marooned was in fact a sand bar that resembled the torso of a floating corpse poking out of the water.
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* The Darke Halls in ''[[Septimus Heap]]''.
* ''Flamingo Feather'' by Laurens van der Post includes an area known as the Forest of Duk-aduk-duk. Which sounds pretty silly to English speakers, until it's explained that the name refers to the sound of your heart pounding in terror because it's such a spooky place. Oh, and to get to this forest, you have to pass through the Dead Land, named because it's so heavily infested by tsetse flies carrying sleeping sickness.
* Pretty much any location in ''[[Bored of the Rings]]'', starting with "The Sty" and going downhill from there.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* A parody: ''[[Garth Marenghi's Darkplace]]''.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': Though Sunnydale doesn't count, the name it originally had does: Boca del Infierno or the Mouth of Hell. The ''Tales of the Slayers'' comic "The Glittering World" shows that Mayor Wilkins renamed it purposefully (also considering "Sunny Valley" and "Happydale").
* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the scenic and picturesque ''Death Zone'' on Gallifrey.
** In "The Impossible Planet", the titular rock is somehow safely orbiting a [[
* ''[[Eerie, Indiana]]'' is probably worth mentioning.
* The challenge one week on ''[[The Gruen Transfer]]'' was to come up with an ad to promote tourism to the Canadian town of Asbestos.
* ''[[Wild Boys]]'': "What part of 'Dead Man's Drop' do you not understand?"
* ''[[Power Rangers Mystic Force]]:''
{{quote|'''[[The Heavy|Imperious]]''': Welcome to the Dimension of Wandering Souls!
'''[[Sixth Ranger|Daggeron]]''': With a name like ''that'', how could I stay away? }}
== Music ==
* "Skullcrusher Mountain" by [[Jonathan Coulton]]. Like a lot of Coulton's stuff, the song itself is relaxing and folksy.
* [[Nox Arcana]] gives us three examples. [[Bedlam House|Blackthorn Asylum]] and [[Haunted House|Darklore Manor]], however the most obvious example is [[Evil Tower of Ominousness|Castle Of Nightmares]].
* ''Dead Man's Curve'' by Jan and Dean.
▲== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* In ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', there are several of these. You know Calvin is awesome when you see that he has the nerve to sled down a hill named Grim Reaper Gorge or Mount Maim. At least, until you realize [[Invoked Trope|he's probably the one who named them]].
== Recorded and Stand up Comedy ==
* [[Eddie Izzard]] mentioned this during one of his skits. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4yrL6rc6bU "Let's go camping in the Forest of Death and Blood!" (around 7:40)]
* Played with in one of the many articles written by ''[[The Onion]]''. It was about a town named Murder Heights that was trying to rebrand itself.▼
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Dungeons
** A lot of modules, such as the old good ''[[Tomb of Horrors]]''
** Many place-names in [[Ravenloft]] are this trope as well, albeit sometimes camoflauged via [[Bilingual Bonus]].
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*** The ludicrousness of these names was parodied by a [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/03/20 certain] ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'' strip which posited that beneath the Shadowdark is the "Darkbad"—and past that, one encounters "Shadow Shadow Bo Badow," "Double Hell," and finally "Scarytown". {{spoiler|Which isn't so bad, depending on when you go.}}
* Most names cribbed from ''[[The Divine Comedy|Inferno]]'' probably count (they're used in ''[[Planescape]]'' a lot). Dis, Malebolge, etc. Carceri and The Abyss probably counts as well, and did I mention the lovely town of Ribcage?
* The infamous [[Dungeons
* ''[[Warhammer Fantasy]]'' has Death Mountain, Troll Country, Blackfire Pass, the Forest of Shadows, the Blighted Isle, the Badlands, the Spiteful Peaks and many more. [[Captain Obvious|None of which are good places to be]]. Some regions, such as Naggaroth, land of the [[Our Elves Are Better|dark elves]], are ''full'' of places like this.
* ''[[Warhammer
** Another planet was named "Murder". As expected, the environment and wildlife devastated the expedition forces.
** And another planet is named "Krieg" - which is German for "War".
** The current{{when}} Imperial Guard codex tells of a nightmarish world known as Birmingham. *shudder*
** And of course, there is the [[Negative Space Wedgie|Eye of Terror]].
* ''[[Infernum]]'' is set in a place called "The Pit". [[Captain Obvious|Because it's a giant (2400 miles deep) crater]]. It's divided into [[Circles of Hell]] called Emptiness, Tempest, Tears, Toil, Slaughter, Industry, Delight, Malebolge and Pandemonium. Obviously, none of these places are good to visit. Individual locations include the likes of Mayhem (center of the arms trade on Slaughter) and the Cathedral of Cracked Bones (where wounded demons are kept suspended in a state of eternal pain until either they convert to the Church of the Morningstar or are bought by somebody).
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** Also Malfeas, aka "Hell", who is both a Place ''and'' a [[Genius Loci|Person]] To Run Away From Really Fast.
* Jo, a sometime narrator from ''[[Deadlands]]:, Hell On Earth'', lampshades this trope, wondering why no-one caught on to the fact that places with nasties always have names like “Hell’s Canyon” or “the Devil’s Backbone” or the “Forest of Death”, and comments that "If you get to name something, call it the “Happy Place.” Or the “Peaceful Forest Where There Are No Freakin’ Monsters!”"
▲* Pick a ''[[Lone Wolf]]'' book. Any ''Lone Wolf'' book. On the off chance that the trope doesn't appear in the title (''[[Doomy Dooms of Doom|The Chasm of Doom]]'', ''The Kingdoms of Terror'', ''Castle Death'', ''The Jungle of Horrors'' and more), then it'll still most likely be present in the book somewhere.
== Video Games ==
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* San Heironymo Peninsula, from ''[[Metal Gear|Portable Ops]]''. It means "Peninsula of the Dead", according to Campbell.
** This is either a nickname or an in-character [[Did Not Do the Research]] -- "San Heironymo" is simply Spanish for "Saint Jerome".
* Mordavia from ''[[Quest for Glory|Quest for Glory IV]]''. Guess what sorts of [[Our Vampires Are Different|inhabitants]] you might meet [[
* [[Monster Town|Monstro Town]] from ''[[Super Mario RPG]]'' is actually a pretty nice place.
** Rogueport in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' is a straight example though. As it's ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]]'', this gets lampshaded relatively quickly.
* [[
** Daemonheim, or "Demon halls". The fact that it is a massive cursed dungeon with ''Occult floors'' and ''Warped floors'' doesn't help.
** The Wilderness in general. Packed with places like Graveyard of Shadows, Demonic Ruins, plus a couple of Chaos Temples.
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* The land of Lordran in ''[[Dark Souls]]'' has the Undead Burg, Blighttown, Demon Ruins, Lost Izalith, The Abyss, Tomb of Giants, etc. Apparently, they're big on honesty in advertising.
* The grottoes of ''[[Dragon Quest IX]]'' have names generated more-or-less randomly, based on their general difficulty. The Clay Tunnel of Joy doesn't sound very menacing, but the Diamond Void of Ruin isn't so inviting.
* In ''[[Morrowind]]'', Sixth House bases often have rooms, corridors and halls with ominous names like "Soul Rattle", "Black Heart" etc.
* In ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'', Crono and his friends visit Death's Peak, the Mountain of Woe, and the Black Omen.
== Web Comics ==
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** Most of the nations on the Western Continent qualify: Dictatoria, Cruelvania, East and West Despotonia, The Empire of Blood, The Empire of Sweat etc.
* Parodied in ''[[Footloose (webcomic)|Footloose]]'', where heroes ''seek out'' places named like this, because even though they're usually just as dangerous as the name implies, the [[Theory of Narrative Causality]] tends to favor the heroes more strongly.
== Web Original ==
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{{quote|'''Hugh Brooks:''' Who names a town ''Bloody Springs''... and then lives there?}}
* [http://www.ichorfalls.com/ Ichor Falls].
* Inversion in ''[[
{{quote|'''Redem''':That would put it somewhere in the Valley of Tears, near the Waterfall of Forever, in the old tombs in the Fields of Dreams.
'''[[Keira Knightley]]''': This planet has a lot of nice names to say you’re all so [[Grimdark]].
'''Evil MrP''': Well, the Tears are those shed after the six million men of General Elasticus were burned as heretics by accident in the battle there due to a communications error, leading to it being lost…the Forever is the thousands of years that valley was fought over in endless bitter wars…the Dreams are those of the Lord High Insurgent Pieter von Killemall and his sadly never-realised plan to carve this entire planet into a huge truncheon to hit the Logic Gods in the face with and bless it through the mass sacrifice of its entire population… }}
* The protagonist of ''[[Homestar Runner|Peasant's Quest]]'' has a souvenir tee-shirt from Scalding Lake. This place is, apparently, a tourist destination for peasants.
* In the web short
* In ''[[Reflets
▲* Played with in one of the many articles written by ''[[The Onion]]''. It was about a town named Murder Heights that was trying to rebrand itself.
== Western Animation ==
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** Also from ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'':
{{quote|'''Judge:''' I sentence you to a lifetime of horror on Monster Island! ''[[[GASP]]]'' Don't worry, it's just a name.
'''Lisa:''' ''([[Description Cut|being chased by monsters]])'' He said it was just a name!
'''Guy:''' What he meant is that Monster Island is actually a peninsula! }}
** And then there's the Murderhorn, the insurmountable highest peak in Springfield.
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* ''[[Storm Hawks]]'' gives us Terra Cyclonia, Terra Gruesomus, the Black Gorge, and the ever-popular Wastelands.
* ''[[Earthworm Jim (animation)|Earthworm Jim]]'', trying to track down Psycrow, reads the Idiot's Guide To Hideously Dangerous Places; featuring entries on The Pit Of Unimaginable Fear, The Cavern Of Flesh Ripping Weasels, and [[Take That|Det]][[Detroit|roit]]. He turns out to be at The Boulevard of Acute Discomfort.
* ''[[My Little Pony:
* Played for Laughs in the ''[[Animaniacs]]'' episode "Spellbound" where Pinky and the Brain come across a signpost:
{{quote|'''Brain:''' The signpost will guide us, Pinky! Let's see, Glade of Woe, no... Chasm of Despair, no... [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking| Pit of Barbecue]]... hmm... Perhaps later.}}
== Real Life ==
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** Though some characters do share the "dark" meaning, and sometimes misunderstood by other Asians speaking different languages. One of the examples is [[wikipedia:Yam O|Yam O]] in [[Hong Kong]]. While Yam does mean "dark" in Cantonese (and Mandarin, in that matter), it also means "North of the hill and south of water", which is the original meaning of the place name. It does not help that when Disney decided to build a Disneyland nearby, and the government decided to change part of Yam O's name to Yan Ou (a.k.a. Sunny Bay). Disneyfication taken to a new level.
** Because [[Four Is Death]], it's far from uncommon for Asians (especially older or more-traditional ones) to change the street number or telephone number of premises they occupy to exclude the number four, much as many Western buildings omit the 13th floor because [[Thirteen Is Unlucky]].
*
** For that matter, Gehenna. It was essentially a giant trash pit. It is also often used as a synonym for Hell. Indeed, its cognate in Arabic, ''Jahannam'', ''is'' the Arabic word for Hell.
** Worse, the reason that Gehenna got its infernal reputation (and the reason it was used for burning garbage) is that area was used as the "sacred" site of a very short-lived cult of Moloch during a time when the Jewish population caved in to foreign invaders and began
* [[wikipedia:Hell, California|Hell, California]], [[wikipedia:Hell, Michigan|Hell, Michigan]], [[wikipedia:Hell, Norway|Hell, Norway]], [http://www.showcaves.com/english/no/caves/Refsvik.html Helvete, Norway], and [https://web.archive.org/web/20110925073616/http://www.caymanislands.com/hell.php Hell, Grand Cayman]. Also, not quite as scary, but still bad: [[wikipedia:Colon, Michigan|Colon, Michigan]].
** Hell, Norway only counts for anglophones, though. Even better was the local railway goods depot, '''Hell Godsexpedition'''
** Hells Canyon, carved by the waters of the Snake River, lying below the Seven Devils Mountains. Tell me that's not ominous.
** Similarly, [[wikipedia:Colon, Cuba|Colón, Cuba]], which happens to be located in the province of [[wikipedia:Matanzas Province|Matanzas]], "Slaughters". However, [[wikipedia:Morón, Cuba|Morón]], also in Cuba, does mean the same thing as in English.
* London ([["London, England" Syndrome|England, not Ontario]]) has a few of these. Shoot Up Hill (in Kilburn, which itself almost qualifies) and Reaper's Close (in Camden).
** Also Crouch End, a name which [[Stephen King]] found so creepy that he wrote a Lovecraftian short story with that title.
* Cherepovets, a Russian city. Its name means ''"(city) of the skulls"''. The historical reason for such a name choice is that the city was actually built on an old pagan shrine.
** Incidentally, it's the birthplace of Vassiliy Vereshchagin, a famous Russian painter, who painted the previous picture in this article (called ''"The Apotheosis of War"'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20170313111037/http://zhurnal.lib.ru/img/s/stepanow_a_f/142/apofeoz.jpg
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131217025419/http://archives.delaware.gov/markers/kc/SOUTH%20MURDERKILL%20HUNDRED%20KC-26.shtml South Murderkill, Delaware].
* Pile-of-Bones, Saskatchewan. Renamed (to Regina) and made the capital of the province. Also: [[wikipedia:Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump|Head-Smashed-In Buffalo-Jump]]. Which is an interesting case of a creepy name that's also [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].
* More "I'm Rather Suspicious About The Name Of That Place", but in Newfoundland there's Dildo, Placentia, Come-By-Chance, and so many more that there's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpycgIlhJXs a song about it]. ''"Historians are still debating whether Newfoundland was discovered by Leif Ericson or Sigmund Freud."''—Dave Broadfoot
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** [[Its Pronounced Tropay|It's pronounced "Fook-ing"]] and the entire town is eternally pissed because everybody keeps stealing their signs!
** It doesn't stop them from making ale ("helles" in German) called Fucking Hell.
*
* From Australia
** [[wikipedia:Mount Hopeless (South Australia)|Mount Hopeless]], South Australia. Yeah.
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* Singapore's Sentosa Island was formerly known as "Pulau Blakang Mati", literally translated as "Island Behind Death". This has been interpreted as "Island Beyond Death" by some.
** And then there's "Pulau Hantu", which is quite simply "Ghost Island".
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120725004356/http://tn-roots.com/tngibson/towns/Skullbone/skullbonia.htm Skullbone, Tennessee.] Apparently so named because it was the meeting place of the local 19th-century Fight Club.
* The part of the East River in New York City called Hell Gate.
* Apparently around 1230 CE there was an English street named [http://skepticalhumanities.com/2011/01/18/chaucers-cunt/ Gropecuntelane]. Some sort of red-light district perhaps?
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* Municipality of Sodankylä in Finland. The name means "war village".
* Town of Outokumpu in Finland. Literally "weird mound" - the hill glowed in the dark. {{spoiler|It was found to be one of the richest copper ore deposits in Europe.}}
* After the [[Seven Years' War|battle of Minden]] in 1759, the village of Tonhausen ("clay-housing"), which is situated on the battlefield, was slightly renamed to Totenhausen ("housing of the dead").
* Downplayed. Around the Great Lakes there are at least two places called ''The Great Carrying Place''. Less scary sounding than some of the examples given? Well yeah. But that is the place where the river takes a turn and you have to get out and [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|carry]] your canoes and cargo overland for several days. On your own backs. Doesn't sound scary but it sounds like a lot of hard work. A really hard lot of work. And if there is a war going on at the time (as there often was back in the eighteenth century), it was a good place to be ambushed, so ramp up the scary part of it.
* There's a nice stretch of plain that stretches all the way up to North Dakota and stretches all the way down to Louisiana and Texas, now people live in those areas but the most common weather phenomena there are ''tornados'', whirling vortexes of death that pick anything and everything up and then hurl them and woe to those who meet a flying piece of wood at around 300MPH. The name of this place? Tornado Alley. People there are hardy but I wouldn't want to live there.
* One town in South Florida was named after a natural bay found by Spanish explorers... and due to the shape of said bay, it received the rather unflattering name of Boca Raton ("mouth of a rat"). Despite its unsavory name, it's a rather high income town overall.
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* Along the road from Kuwait to Iraq is the ''Highway of Death'' called so because of the pounding the retreating Iraqi Army got in the first Gulf War. One could follow it looking from above by tracing the wrecked vehicles and of course the wrecked people within.
* The waters off Guadalcanal are immortalized as Ironbottom Sound because of all the Allied and Japanese ships that lay at the bottom. In the US Navy [[Due to the Dead|silence is observed when a ship cruises over.]]
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