weird country names

In the early 1800s, travelers on their way to Mobile often stopped at an inn in southern Mississippi, where owner Levi Davis greeted them with ginger cookies and a pot of piping hot coffee. The inn took on the name of its signature beverage, and eventually so did the surrounding area. Today, its not really a town so much as a scattering of farms, homes and businesses along Hot Coffee Road.

Knockemstiff is a small rural town in south central Ohio. Several legends give different explanations for the name. One says that in the 1800s, a traveling preacher entering town came across two women fighting over a man. The preacher doubted the man was worth the trouble and said that someone should knock him stiff. Another similar story has it that a woman went to a preacher to complain that her husband was cheating on her. The preachers straightforward advice became a motto around town, and eventually its name. Yet another explanation is that the name is slang for the moonshine or homemade liquor that many of the locals manufactured.

This little burg got its name during the Great Depression. The story goes that in the towns general store, two lads often came in on errands for their mom, regularly trading two eggs for a package of sugar. Locals began referring to the place as the two egg store, and the name stuck for the town as well. Strange fact: On the towns website, there is news about sightings of a Bigfoottype creature called the Two Egg Stump Jumper.

According to popular legend, a flood in the 1840s drove hundreds of rabbits from the riverbank, and right into the stew pots of hungry settlers. Described by the general store clerk as a little slice of American pie, Rabbit Hash consists of eight buildings and an official population of one.

This place supposedly got its name in the early 1900s, after general store owner Marvin Cornelius gave a cookie to a young boy, who exclaimed, I dont want to leave Cookietown. Despite its yummy name, Cookietown is more of a ghost town today

This small (pop. 306 as of the 2000 census) borough in Western PA isnt named after the Glen Campbell famous for Rhinestone Cowboy and Wichita Lineman. Instead, its named in honor of Cornelius Campbell, the first superintendent of the Glenwood Coal Company, which operated the mines in the area. The Glen in the name comes from the Scottish word for a valley.

Thank the Bumpass family whose scion Jack Bumpass brought this hilarious town name into being and, thus, transformed this slice of the northeast corner of VA into an odditytravelers mecca. Favorite travelers resource: The Virginia State Tourism Boards website, Bumpass is for Lovers.

Welcome to Intercourses more brazen sister city, 20mi north of Salzburg. Travelers tip: The village folk (population: 104) got sick and tired of Englishspeaking tourists stealing their Fucking signage. So in 2004, after a vote to change the name of the town after 800yrs failed to pass, they decided to install theftresistant signs welded to steel. Tawdry travelers tip: Once visitors realized they couldnt easily rip up a routemarker, they started filming themselves in the act in front of the signposts. In 2009 the Fuckingers got tired of it and installed CCTV cameras. Be forewarned.

Believe it or not, the founders of this burg in southwestern Norway named it Hell after the Old Norse word hellir, which translates to overhang not the feeling you get from eating lutefisk.Burn in:Another place. Hells one of the colder places in the world; in fact, its actually frozen over a third of the year.Boom, tish.

According to Wikipedia, this town got its name from the phallusshaped pin stuck in the edging of a row boat to act as a pivot for the oar... Mmmhmm... Sure, Canadians. Whatever you say. Favorite local tourism site: TripAdvisors Dildo Vacations; be sure to open that one in an Incognito browser, or face awkward questions from girlfriends, roommates, and HR.