Top 10 American Towns With Weird Names

Having a strange name is a sign of personality, right? If so, these towns have that base covered. What's in a name you ask? This is a list of the top 10 American towns that have weird names.Show more

Number 10 is Boogertown which is in Tennessee. You can pick your nose and toy can pick your friend in Boogertown, but, the mystery behind the name is that it actually derives from the 19th century story about "the bogeyman". Which happens to be a made up character that has very distinctive out of this world features and is meant to scare the living ghost within you.

Number 9 is a town called Waterproof which is Located in Louisiana. This town has actually been moved three times due to big floods in the effort to escape floodwaters. Living there does not guarantee staying dry in a rainstorm.

Number 8 is a town called Hot Coffee which is located in Mississippi, and the town got its name from the delicious hot coffee served at the local inn. Horse and buggy travelers would stop in to fill up on this java sweetened with molasses.

Number 7 happens to be hcalled Buttzville located in New Jersey, founded in 1893 and named after Michael Robert Buttz. Around 146 people live there, how ever no word on the shape of their glutes.

Number 6 is a town called Intercourse located in Pennsylvania. The name of this Amish town may come from the 18th century meaning of "intercourse". The word was commonly used to describe social interaction and support in a community of faith.

Number 5 would be a town called Big Bone Lick in Kentucky. Mammoth and mastadon bones have been found at this state park which makes it a step up from unique. They're believed to have been drawn to the area by a salt lick near the sulphur springs.

Another interesting one which would fall under number 4 is a town called mars which is located in Pennsylvania . Just a tiny speck on the map it's actually 35 million miles from the red planet what we reffer to as the actual Mars. But only 55 miles southwest of Venus, Pennsylvania.

Number 3 is a town called Hell, that's right, Hell. Hell is located in Michigan. Several theories persist on how the town got its name. One is that the area was so swampy and infested with mosquitoes that early explorers named it Hell.

Number 2 is a town called Satan's Kingdom in Connecticut. Which by the way is a great place to go tubing on the Farmington River. It reportedly got its name because of murderous outlaws who lived in the area.

And finally we come down to the top of the list with the weirdest names, a town called Uranus located in Missouri takes the 1st place. There are about a thousand jokes about the name of this Route 66 attraction. Many of them involve Uranus fudge factory.