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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
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
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.
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
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
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
Suicide Bay, Tasmania, Australia
Pity, Haiti
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
Doubtful Island, New Zealand
Hopeless Way, Bunkerville, USA
Doubtful Island, New Zealand
Broken Island, Washington, USA
Spiteful Geyser, Wyoming, USA
Point No Point, Hansville, USA
Dog Slaughter Falls, Kentucky, USA
Starvation Heights, Oregon, USA
Defeated, Tennessee, USA
Blunder Pond, Northeast Piscataquis, Maine, USA
Lost Boys Lane, Riverview, Florida, USA
Death Lake, Cochrane, Canada
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