Some fictional places in which TV shows are set are highlighted to make us want to go there, sometimes just for a look, sometimes it's a place we'd like to live. If the locale ever changed, you'd feel like a character di...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/30/17-Fictional-TV-Towns-with-Personality/
Many cities adopt a "sister city" across the pond. These matchups between the New World and the Old World serve as a sort of cultural exchange. People in the village of Dull, in Perthshire, Scotland, have shown their sen...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/25/dull-and-boring/
The following is an article from the book History'... ...addest of the bad, meanest of the mean, Wild West towns . Some historians say that the Wild West wasn't as... ...ollywood, but there's no doubt that some frontier towns were beyond the immediate reach of the law -place... ...D, SOUTH DAKOTA Like many o...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/21/the-meanest-towns-in-the-west/
We've all heard of underground societies, but... ...miles with 200+ underground villages and tunnel towns complete with hidden passages, secret rooms and...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/12/amazing-underground-cities/
While many towns were built on corruption, greed and scandal, few... ...in a frontier town. Maynard convinced the other townspeople to rename the city Seattle after the Duwamps Chie...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/09/the-surprisingly-scandalous-history-of-early-seattle/
io9 takes a look at cities with something different, whether it's a colony of feral dogs who live side-by-side with city residents, a town on fire, underground office spaces, or microorganisms that flourish in toxic slud...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/18/the-10-weirdest-urban-ecosystems/
The US has its share of strange town names. If you've made a few road trips, you've no doubt encountered some of them. Test your knowledge of these strangely-named cities in this Lunchtime Quiz from mental_floss. I score...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/03/05/humorously-named-cities/
When you see a town like Tightwad, Missouri, you have to wonder how that ever came about. This small town got its name from an incident in which a store owner cheated a postal worker by charging him an extra fifty cents...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/22/oddly-named-places/
I live in a house that is over 100 years old. That's pretty old by US standards, but can you imagine living in a city that is 12,000 years old? That would be Damascus, Syria, with a population of four million people. W...
http://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/11/the-10-oldest-still-inhabited-cities/
