23 Small Towns Famous for the Most Random Stuff

There are thousands of small towns, and maybe yours had some weird thing happen that made it famous.

Published 3 years ago in Funny

There are thousands of small towns, and maybe yours had some weird thing happen that made it famous.

We went to r/AskReddit to find out what strange things put certain towns on the map.

1
Valparaiso, Indiana Orville Redenbaucher popcorn. Sadly, they closed the plant. But we were the town that got him his start.

2
Puyallup, Washington “Do the Puyallup”

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Rochester, New York Wegmans
4
San Diego, California… A whales vagina…-u/qt-uwu

5
Getting hit by a big tornado. Xenia Ohio -u/darthjay81
6
Johnson City Tennessee, Home of Mt. Dew! It’s all we have! -u/tgleezy
7
Soest Germany, the pancakes!! Several restaurants that serve big pancakes with all sorts of toppings almost like pizzas but also sweet ones. Whatever you like! My favorite is with cheese, bacon and mushrooms. And lots of stroop.. It's thicker than syrup. -u/Bad_horsie23

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Reading Pennsylvania my hometown was noted as "the poorest small city in the country" in 2011. It's also home to it's famous pagoda, a failed luxury hotel/restaurant that was sold to the city for one dollar. -u/truxxton
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Shipshewana, Indiana Amish. Everything in town is based around the Amish. We get all kinds of tourist just to see them. I find it strange but maybe that’s because I grew up here so I don’t find them interesting. -u/78kellyeah
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Scottsboro, Alabama I haven’t lived there in years, but the town I was born in was the land of the unclaimed bags. When airline luggage goes unclaimed, it all goes to a huge retail store in my town where you can buy it for super cheap. It’s been featured on all sorts of talk shows over the years. -u/milkdrinker1000

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Bethlehem Pennsylvania, Bethlehem Steel, the former second largest steel mill in the US. -u/Panhead09
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Fresno, California has white slender legged cryptids with no torsos -u/LemonSalted
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Every year we have a wheel of cheese roll down an incredibly steep hill with a bunch of people running down to chase after it. Loads of spectators, plenty of people getting hurt and it's just generally funny as hell to watch. Google Gloucester cheese rolling. -u/schofield101

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McAdenville, North Carolina, Christmas Town USA!
15
Le Roy, New York A unique stone that is made of fossilized coral that you cant find anywhere else in the world.
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Helensburgh, UK birthplace of John Logie Baird, inventor of television.

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Williamsburg VA Cobblestone streets and people dressed up like it’s the 1700s -u/dndjdhdhsjwnixns
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Bloomsburg, being the “only” town in Pennsylvania -u/Weak_Carpenter_7060
19
The Gainesville Ripper, sadly. -u/ahoefordrphil

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F**king balloon-boy, Fort Collins, Colorado -u/original_4degrees
21
Goiânia, Brazil The biggest radioactive accident in the world. The whole city was under risk of radiation poisoning and a there was a stigma against my city that lasted till the 2000s Basically, some scrappers got into some abandoned hospital equipment, among them an X-ray machine, they broke the big box open and inside found this magical powder that glowed, Cesium-137. They took it home to show their family and friends, gifted it to some people, one of them gave it to his daughter and she played with it like it was glitter, some of them ate it. They washed it off their hands like you would anything else so it went down into the water supply of the city... You have an idea how it went down from there. -u/mom_erdon
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I live in a town called Cumming, Georgia. We are basically just famous to the whole state because of our name. We sell shirts at our Walmart’s that say “I love cumming!” That’s about it. -u/britbaker

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Canton, Ohio. A couple of years ago there was this small Chinese restaurant that was really popular. It was found out that the owners killed the daughter and hid the body in the ceiling above the freezer. -u/JohnXinaIceCream