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Harry Potter's Grave.
Ramla, Israel

Harry Potter's Grave

This 1939 grave of a British soldier now receives legions of unlikely visitors.
Corner of Arkhivna Street.
Lviv, Ukraine

Arkhivna Street

This street has over a half-dozen names, all at once.
Mérida, Mexico

Los Rincones de Mérida

Iconic red and white plaques show the creative names invented to navigate the city streets.
Mt. Cleese
Palmerston North, New Zealand

Mt. Cleese

A New Zealand rubbish dump named after British comedian John Cleese.
royalty

In the U.K. You Need Permission to Put 'Royal' in Your Business Name

It's not a word you can just throw around.
Cara Giaimo May 18, 2018
How many craters and dark spots can you name?
astronomy

Who Keeps Track of All the Craters on the Moon?

For generations, women have been critical to bringing order to the chaos of the solar system.
Jessica Leigh Hester April 25, 2018
These mystery specimens don't have identification numbers to compare against the museum's register.
natural history museums

A Researcher's Quest to Decode the Specimens on a Museum's Mystery Shelf

Sifting through the old, unlabeled, puzzling jars that fill a collection's junk drawer.
Jessica Leigh Hester April 20, 2018
Some of Charon's newly named features.
space exploration

There's Now a Space Mountain Named for Octavia Butler

It's on Pluto's moon, Charon, which also boasts landscape features that honor Stanley Kubrick and Dorothy Gale.
Cara Giaimo April 12, 2018
The Chicken chicken.
Chicken, Alaska

Chicken of Chicken, Alaska

A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.
So many species, each with a name.
science

The Beautiful Complexity of Naming Every Living Thing

After two centuries of binomial nomenclature, scientists are nowhere close to running out of things to document.
Jessica Leigh Hester March 22, 2018
Winterhaven, California

Valley of the Names

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.
A bighorn, one of the many species named by Lewis and Clark.
animals

How Lewis and Clark Helped Shape American English

More than one thousand words appeared in print for the first time in the explorers' journals.
Rosemarie Ostler February 8, 2018
A street sign on Haunted Lane in Bensalem.
Bensalem, Pennsylvania

Haunted Lane

The residents of this ominous-sounding street in Pennsylvania liked its name so much they fought to keep it.
The Flower Moon—the first full moon in May—rises over Lancashire, England, in 2020.
language

All the Other Names for the Moon

The "Supermoon" makes headlines, but it's a relatively recent entry in a long history of descriptions of the moon.
Sarah Laskow July 19, 2022
boats

The Ferry McFerryface Controversy Tearing Australia Apart

Politicians are angry, workers are threatening to strike, and at least one environmentalist is devastated.
Cara Giaimo November 17, 2017
A Sagamore of the Wabash lapel pin.
names

You Can't Be Knighted in the U.S., But You Can Be Named a Sagamore of the Wabash

Or a Kentucky Colonel. Or a Nebraska Admiral. Or a Commodore of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Eric Grundhauser November 8, 2017
Saison is a pale ale, usually cloudy gold in color, with fruity, spicy flavors.
computers

Enjoy a Tall, Frosty Beverage Named by a Neural Network

"The Fine Stranger" sounds good. "Snot Beard," less so.
Natasha Frost October 9, 2017
Undated Sidewalk Stamp
Corvallis, Oregon

Corvallis Sidewalk Stamps

Contractors in this Oregon town have been stamping their names in sidewalks since 1908.