One of my favorite unusual place names in NC is Whynot, NC. When growing up, Mom had to drive through there on the way to Granny’s house in Dudley Shoals (which is near Granite Falls and Hickory and Lenoir). On the way there on US 64, we ‘d drive through Hiddenite, NC (famous because of a gem by the same name found nowhere else in the world until very recently). East of Raleigh you will find Lizard Lick. Boogertown is West of Charlotte. Toast is essentially adjacent to Mount Airy (of Andy Griffith Museum fame). Closer to home are Climax and (best of all) Horneytown (no kidding!). My wife’s from Wallburg [itself near Welcome and Midway – both nice places]. Wallburg is only ten minutes from Horneytown. And we should not forget Loafers Glory, Meat Camp, and Hanging Dog, NC. Our State Magazine [https://www.ourstate.com/] ran a couple of articles about unusual place names in NC. They don’t embed here on WordPress very well for some odd reason, but you can easily find both of them by searching for “Weird Town Names” at site:ourstate.com
And there were a couple of similar articles at https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/:
We have found that if you get off the Interstate highways driving through Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Western Virginia, and West Virginia, you will encounter lots of interesting, unusually-named places that are no more than a wide place in the road (where the speed limit is no lower “in town” than on the road you drove into town). Some of the most interesting people we have met “on the road” (channeling Charles Kuralt) were working, shopping, eating, or goofing off in the little stores (grocery or antique), restaurants, and minor tourist attractions on such backroads. If you stop and talk (and shop), you can learn a lot about where to go, what to do, and where you can buy neat stuff.
You certainly don’t find anything or anyone like that in a “city” anymore.
Wrabbit Warren 