Street Names

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

Plastic pups and their colorful homes greet travelers on this otherwise ordinary Australian street.

A colorful street named for the legendary Australian rock band.

An early-20th-century "dacha" village of quaint cottages curiously located in a modern part of Moscow.

The residents of this ominous-sounding street in Pennsylvania liked its name so much they fought to keep it.

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

Though they've since been renamed, these two streets hint at Dublin's darker days.

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

Spike Lee's provocative film is officially honored right where it was made, the first time a work of art was used as a secondary street name.

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

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

There are thousands of tributes and memorials to the King, but none quite like this one in a Kraków city park.

This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.

Historic slum of Tartu.