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This Guy Spends Hours Searching For The World’s Most Depressing Places, And The Results Are Hilarious
Damien Rudd is a 33-year-old Australian behind the Instagram account called "Sad topographies" where he collects Google Maps screenshots of the world‘s most depressing sounding places. It all began by accident when Rudd was searching for something and suddenly discovered Mount Hopeless in Australia.
"I typed hopeless into Google Maps to find other places called hopeless, then other synonyms for sadness,” Damien told WERTN magazine. "I screen captured the results and soon had the beginnings of my interesting maps collection.”
Rudd now has a pretty big collection of the world’s most joyless locations and he’s put all of these unfortunate names into a book of hand-drawn maps, together with their fascinating etymologies. When asked about his favorite place names, Damien replied: "Probably the ones in Antarctica are the most interesting. There is Shapeless Mountain which was named as none of the exploring party could agree on its shape. So shapeless was Shapeless Mountain that when a later expedition attempted to climb it, they scaled the wrong mountain entirely - which they then, in turn, had given the hilarious name of Mistake Mountain. There is also a Wrong Peak, which earned its funny name under similar circumstances. In 1963 Recoil Glacier was named by a geologist who was said to have "recoiled in disgust" at finding nothing of interest there."
Scroll down, check the funny maps and find out where "to go when you're feeling low," as states Sad Topographies Instagram account.
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America
Useless Islands, New Zealand
Why Me Lord Lane, Chester, USA
Divorce Beach, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Road To Misery, Kennebunkport, Maine, USA
Well the thing about dead ends is that you can turn around and try to make a change!
Load More Replies...Ironically, the Bush family compound was in Kennebunkport. Bush, the elder, used to take his vacations there in the early 90's.
Was that where Stephen King's book same title was based on? He also lived im Maine, I believe. Hmm.....
I don't know if you are being facetious, or if you haven't read the book Misery, but the book is about an author, who gets stuck in a snowstorm, in Colorado. None of the book even takes place in Maine. The main character of the book, whom I previously stated is an author, wrote a series of books with a character named Misery Chastain. Don't know if King ever even saw this road, as it's nearly 15 hours from where he grew up. Beyond that, King claims that his inspiration for Misery, was a short story called "The Man Who Loved Dickens". https://www.stephenking.com/library/novel/misery_inspiration.html
Load More Replies...I don't know if you are attempting to be facetious, but that incident took place on an island, in Massachusetts.
Load More Replies...Disappointment Lake, California, USA
Nothing, Arizona, USA
All Alone Road, Bradford, UK
Mistake Island, Jonesport, USA
Mount Disappointment, Victoria, Australia
Maybe the australians thought they would climb it, found nothing there and......well you know the rest
Pain Lane/Suffering Lane, St. George's Island, Bermuda
Dead Woman Pond, Texas, USA
Broken Dreams Drive, Arivaca, Arizona, USA
Shades Of Death Road, New Jersey, USA
Pointless Mountain, Squamish-Lillooet, Canada
Failure Canyon, Samak, Utah, USA
Bucket Of Blood Street, Holbrook, Arizona, USA
Point No Point, Newark, USA
Suicide Bridge, Maryland, USA
Misery Island, Tasmania, Australia
Grandmother's Hole, Goa, India
Shit, Iran
Fail, UK
Road To Nowhere, Iqaluit, Canada
Lonesome Lake, Washington, USA
Murderers Creek, Murders Kill Road, Athen, New York, USA
Grumpy Lane, Lake Echo, Canada
Maybe it's a neighborhood with streets named after Snow White characters. I used to live near one like that in California.
Useless Loop, Western Australia
Terrible Mountain, Vermont, USA
Hell For Certain Road, Hyden Kentucky, USA
Die, France
World's End, Aylesbury, USA
Nasty Pond, Oregon, USA
Lake Of No Return, Osage Township, Ar, USA
Desperation Lake, Alaska, USA
Agony Island, Marshall Islands
Miserable Island, Banner Township, Illinois, USA
Depressed Lake, California, USA
Lonely Island, Ontario, Canada
Hopeless Road, Dandridge, USA
Ugly, West Bangal, India
Kill, Ireland
Suffering Street, Menzel Jemil, Tunisia
Hopeless Way, Bunkerville, Nevada, USA
Despair Island, Maine, USA
Pity Me, Durham, USA
I've been there, it's in UK, not US. Unless they copied the whole layout
Crying Child Island, Jacksonville Beach, Florida, USA
Lonelyville, Fire Island, New York, USA
Crack Is Wack Playground, Harlem, New York, USA
Heartache Rd, East Helena, USA
Massacre Island, Subd, Canada
Deception Island, Antartica
What Cheer, Iowa, USA
Murder Island, Argyle, Canada
Dead Women Crossing, Oklahoma, USA
Sad Lake, Oregon, USA
Accident, Maryland, USA
Worthless Road, Laytonville, USA
Hearts Desire Ave / Broken Heart St, Las Vegas, USA
Misery, France
Melancholy Waterhole, Sturt, Australia
Abandoned, Hartwick, New York State, USA
Murdering Beach Road, Heyward Point, New Zealand
Sadness Street, Jemil, Tunisia
Same place where you find Suffering Street; not really a lucky place it seems
Dubious Reservoir, Oregon, USA
Miserable Lake, Banner Township, Illinois, USA
Disappointment Road, Barbourville Ky, USA
you can walk down disappointment road or float down disappointment creek
Desperation Drive / Solitude Way, Shingle Springs, Ca, USA
You can either continue to be desperate or you can find happiness in your solitude!
Poverty Island, Michigan, USA
Haunted Lake, Francestown, New Hampshire, USA
Purgatory Pond, Dunbarton, USA
Labour In Vain Road, Stansted, UK
apparently a woman on the road side went into labour, but later turned out it was just outdated tacos..
Dead Dog Island, Killarney, Canada
Sorrow Islands, British Columbia, Canada
Nameless, Tennessee, USA
Little Hope Island, Nova Scotia, Canada
Disenchantment Bay, Alaska, USA
Hateful Hill, Vermont, USA
Terror Lake, Alaska
Repulse Bay, Canada
Suicide Bay, Tasmania, Australia
Sad, Slovenia
Pity, Haiti
Lake Torment, Annapolis, Subd, Canada
Crying Lady Rock, Washington, USA
Cape Disappointment, Ilwaco Wa, USA
Devastation Island, British Columbia, Canada
Nowhere Island, Rainy River, Canada
Alone, Brescia Province, Italy
Grief Island, Alaska, USA
Futile Lake, Kenora, Canada
Forlorn Lake, Nipissing, Canada
Doubtful Island, New Zealand
Hopeless Way, Bunkerville, USA
Doubtful Island, New Zealand
Abandoned, Svalbard
Broken Island, Washington, USA
Spiteful Geyser, Wyoming, USA
Point No Point, Hansville, USA
Little Hope, Wisconsin
Dog Slaughter Falls, Kentucky, USA
Starvation Heights, Oregon, USA
Defeated, Tennessee, USA
Blunder Pond, Northeast Piscataquis, Maine, USA
Despair Island, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA
Dead Woman Creek, Oklahoma, USA
Lost Boys Lane, Riverview, Florida, USA
Death Lake, Cochrane, Canada
Pain Lake, Ontario, Canada
Melancholy Lane, Dorset, USA
Disappointment Lake, Idaho, USA
Solitude Island, Ontario, Canada
Disappointment Cove, New Zealand
Did they take the buy now off of it? Or do the people reporting the buy now sticker just have adware installed? I am betting you guys need to clean your PCs.
Load More Replies...It's missing my favorite place, the Great Dismal Swamp in Camden County, North Carolina, USA
How didn't I find any of these? I spend hours on Google maps when I'm bored(sorry, Bored Panda)
Challenge: all my RPG people, let's make a world compiled of all of these and cast them into the void! ;-)
Will he also go for a list of happy places? Cause this was kinda fun :)
I was an exchange student in Vermont, and our home address was Weir Road. That is, the address was WEIR RD. Yup. https://www.google.com.br/search?q=weir+rd+williamstown+vt&oq=weir+rd+williamstown+vt+&aqs=chrome..69i57.24977j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 BTW, there was nothing weird about it, it was lovely. :)
i like this, it shows not everywhere is 'enchantment lake' or something, with the incredible possibilities in life there is the bad and boring - i like how these names represent that
I had to google Enchantment Lake. It's pretty!
Load More Replies...That Panda users voted the cheapest shot up to the first spot speaks volumes about this site.
What? That the world doesn't have the same opinion of America that America does?
Load More Replies...Here in NYC, we have Hell’s Gate , Great Kills, Fresh Kills and Dead Horse Bay.
Well, I did not look at the whole thing. Were there any posts from non-English-speaking countries? If most were in the USA, I can see why it is rated #1.
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Load More Replies...Did they take the buy now off of it? Or do the people reporting the buy now sticker just have adware installed? I am betting you guys need to clean your PCs.
Load More Replies...It's missing my favorite place, the Great Dismal Swamp in Camden County, North Carolina, USA
How didn't I find any of these? I spend hours on Google maps when I'm bored(sorry, Bored Panda)
Challenge: all my RPG people, let's make a world compiled of all of these and cast them into the void! ;-)
Will he also go for a list of happy places? Cause this was kinda fun :)
I was an exchange student in Vermont, and our home address was Weir Road. That is, the address was WEIR RD. Yup. https://www.google.com.br/search?q=weir+rd+williamstown+vt&oq=weir+rd+williamstown+vt+&aqs=chrome..69i57.24977j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 BTW, there was nothing weird about it, it was lovely. :)
i like this, it shows not everywhere is 'enchantment lake' or something, with the incredible possibilities in life there is the bad and boring - i like how these names represent that
I had to google Enchantment Lake. It's pretty!
Load More Replies...That Panda users voted the cheapest shot up to the first spot speaks volumes about this site.
What? That the world doesn't have the same opinion of America that America does?
Load More Replies...Here in NYC, we have Hell’s Gate , Great Kills, Fresh Kills and Dead Horse Bay.
Well, I did not look at the whole thing. Were there any posts from non-English-speaking countries? If most were in the USA, I can see why it is rated #1.
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Good for you; we don't care! Take your spam elsewhere!
Load More Replies...Well, if you have too much time on your hands, perhaps you should get a hobby.
Load More Replies...Americans think there #1 but to the rest of the world you're a giant #2
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