Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.
Yes, there really is a place in Austria called Fucking. In fact they liked the name so much, it seems that they also have several Fucking roads. Which f**king road would you live on?
Update: Welcome Boingboingers! We’ve had lots more funny placenames in the comments here, and yet more at Boing Boing, and now somebody’s located this excellent list of interesting or unusual place names on Wikipedia (and yes, there’s rude ones in there too!)
Thanks to Chris and Nev.
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Fucking heh! well I’m from Haiti and over here we have a town named MORON. I guess people born there are Morons. If someone from Fucking had sex with someone from Moron, guess what their kid would grow up to be? That’s right, a FUCKING MORON… LMAO!!!