There’s also a Hell in Grand Cayman. Popular tourist activity to visit Hell and send a postcard from the post office there.
Dildo, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada (it’s not known exactly how the town got its name but it’s speculated that it may actually have been named after the, um, marital aid)
Alexandria, Virginia
Antioch, California
Lima, Ohio
Westphalia, Missouri
Hanover, Pennsylvania
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Valencia, California
Montezuma Iowa
Roughly every third street in Atlanta has ‘Peachtree’ in the name. AFAIK there have never been any actual peach trees or peach orchards anywhere near the city.
And the Lancaster in Pennsylvania has a unique pronunciation. Very heavy emphasis on the first syllable.
North, SC
Winter Park, FL
Greenland, NJ
Bethlehem, PA
Lebanon, NH
When S and DIL lived in Bensalem, PA, one of the main thoroughfares was…Street Rd.! I guess this is more matchy-matchy than mismatched. LOL
@my-3-sons There is an Avenue Road in Toronto!
East Liverpool, OH
Calcutta, OH
Lisbon, OH
Cadiz, OH
East Palestine, OH
Vienna, OH
My H grew up in Calcutta (a “suburb” of East Liverpool). East Liverpool’s claim to fame: it’s the birthplace of Lou Holtz (former Notre Dame football coach).
Trinidad, CO
Portland, OR (originally kept thinking it should be Portland, Maine)
Toledo, Ohio
Boston, Mass
Plymouth, Mass
North Pole, Alaska
On a slightly different tack:
The town of Ravalli, Montana, is not in Ravalli County, Montana
Lincoln, Montana, is not in Lincoln County, Montana.
The city of Deer Lodge, Montana, is not in Deer Lodge County; Deer Lodge is the county seat of Powell County, Montana.
A well-matched name, Hotazel, South Africa. It really is that hot…
Paris, IL
Peru, IL
@jonri - I grew up near Greece, NY. There is a Texas, NY just north of Mexico, NY. Lima, NY is pronounced Lima like the bean. And Cairo,IL is pronounced Kay ro. My favorite hometown neighbor was Chili, NY which is pronounce
Chi-lye.
Memphis, TN (where I grew up), which now, appropriately, has its own pyramid!
Paris, TN
There are a lot of Paris’s!
And Arkansas City, Kansas, pronounced by locals not like the state of Arkansas, but like Kansas itself.
San Francisco, NM
San Francisco, TX
Los Angeles, TX
Las Vegas, New Mexico.
Pekin, Illinois (they dropped the ‘g’).
Mexico, Missouri
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
Frankfort, Kentucky
Actually, there is a breed of duck called Pekin.
Lebanon, OR
Dallas, OR
Florence, OR