Names

Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.

The granite head appears to be deep in thought and half buried in the ground.

Canada’s surprisingly controversial monument to Dwight Eisenhower.

The English town of Mansfield likely got its name from this enigmatic breast-shaped mound rising abruptly from the earth.

The storied English village that pretended to be insane inspired NYC's nickname and the fictional namesake in the DC Comics universe.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

This block in downtown Brooklyn was a hotbed of antislavery activism along the Underground Railroad.

Could it have picked a better place to land?

A rare wayfinding portmanteau of “Street” and “Avenue.”

A violent name for a violent volcano.

This unincorporated community in western Ohio got its peculiar name from John "Daddy" Baker.

Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.

Of all the origin stories for weed's secret code, this one likely has the goods.

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.