Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

The website and book Sad Topographies teaches us that our planet is home to some unusually-named places, like Gloomy Lake in Ontario, Divorce Beach in Mexico, New Jersey’s Shades of Death Road (!) and a spot in Washington state known as Point No Point. Plus:  the annual World Santa Claus Congress is getting underway in Denmark. Watch for some serious Santa-to-Santa networking. 21 Of The Saddest Places On Earth From Instagram’s sadtopographies (Brilliant Maps)  Shades of Death Road (Weird NJ)  Washington State’s bummer place names, mapped (Curbed Seattle)  World Santa Claus Congress  Feeling bummed out by sad place names? Backing Cool Weird Awesome on Patreon could help you feel better. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message