h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Have you ever wondered about places, you've heard of, but for entirely bad things and would have never heard of it unless the bad thing never happened. In the US, there a signs whne you enter a villiage claiming they own the 'worlds biggest thermomter' etc, imgaine what the other places would be like. for example

The Guandong provence of China, birthplace of the SARS virus

Guantanamo Bay, birthplace of democracy.

RF

Liverpool england
birth place of the betals
soem people think thats a good reasion for the place to be famious but if the only reasion that it is worth goin to is becuse some one who got famious was born there its pretty lame

Dunblane Where all those little children got shot.

A quiet little village in Scotland near to where my boyfriends parents live and where we go for a meal occasionally.

I was telling a friend about the restaurant in Dunblane where we had an excellent dinner and they said "Why do I know the name Dunblane? It rings a bell."

Shame isn't it.

Milton Keynes

Yateley, Hants

Home of the Soho Nail Bomber
Temporary resting place for the bones of poor Milly Dowler
Good advertisement for how to improve a village with the addition of 1970s architecture

Oh - and HQ of the Monster Raving Looney Party

Lockerbie, Lakenheath, Greenham Common

Aintree

Holmfirth [Last of the bleeep summer whine, more sequels than Police Academy, and exactly as funny]

Chappaquiddick

More may follow....

Places you would never have heard about except that something really bad happened there?
Omagh.
Hungerford.
Soham.
Lockerbie.
Three Mile Island.
Chernobyl.
Hiroshima.
Nagasaki.
Ypres.
Halabja.

Lidice in the Czech Republic. Razed to the ground by the Nazis after Heydrich was assassinated.

Woodpigeon

Panmunjom, Korea.
Waco, Texas.
Srebrenica, Bosnia.

londonderry home the garbvacky road where the riots happen evry time theres a march

Sandwich. Made famous by a snack.

RF

Grassy knoll

Mull of Kintyre

Chernobyl

Aberfan

Jth, sorry but Liverpool is famous for much more than the Beatles but this isn't the appropriate thread
Knin, Croatia - birthplace of the Balkan ethnic cleansing in 1990's
Magadan, Russia - gateway to the Gulags
Bootle, Merseyside - abduction and murder of Jamie Bulger, Resevoir Dogs-style murder of Micheal Moss

in illinois they got the home of superman it's a big gawdy statue near the town hall lmmfbo

Oh, and Guernica, Spain - site of the 3rd Reich's first major aggressive action

I'm amazed no-one's mentioned Scunthorpe yet.

B

milton keynes home of the concrete cow

hawaii where captain cook got cooked

I suspect Hawaii is famous for a few nicer things.

B

the queen mary luxury liner docked in southern california, its a restaraunt and museum but the place is haunted and they used to have ghost tours at night until they actually seen the ghost on the tour and a lady had a heart attack and died!
hows that for karma?