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* Grozny, the capital of Cechnya, in Russian it is the same word that is used for IvanTheTerrible nickname. Both English and Russian languages had changed over the time, so "Grosny" isn't usualy translated as "Terrible" nowdays. It's more like "Menacing", or, more literally, "Thundering". Still fits here.

* Grozny, the capital of Cechnya, in Russian it is the same word that is used for IvanTheTerrible nickname. Both English and Russian languages had changed over the time, so "Grosny" is't usualy translated directly as "Terrible" nowdays. It's more like "menacing", or, more literally, "Thundering". Still fits here.

* The Death Zone and the Dark Tower from ''[[Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries Calvin and Hobbes: The Series]]''.

-->-- ''TheSimpsons'', "Cape Feare"

* As the above quote shows, [[TheSimpsons the Simpsons]] moved to one of these places in a parody of the film ''CapeFear''.
** Also from ''TheSimpsons'':

* ''{{Futurama}}'': "The Forbidden Zone is just a name, like the Death Zone, or the Zone of No Return. All the zones have names like that in the Galaxy of Terror!" ([[SubvertedTrope Ironically]], the trip was actually going great until it turned out [[ItMakesSenseInContext the alien emperor wanted out of Fry's stomach]].)

* Camp Wannaweep in ''KimPossible''.

* ''SouthPark'' has the appropriately named "Hell's Pass Hospital." No, seriously.

** ''Storm Hawks'' gives us Terra Cyclonia, Terra Gruesomus, the Black Gorge, and the ever-popular Wastelands.
* ''Series/EarthwormJim'', trying to track down Psycrow, reads the Idiot's Guide To Hideously Dangerous Places; featuring entries on The Pit Of Unimaginable Fear, The Cavern Of Flesh Ripping Weasels, and [[TakeThat Detroit]]. He turns out to be at The Boulevard of Acute Discomfort.

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* Sodom, Vermont. Better watch your behind.

* Sodom, Vermont. Watch your behind around that area.

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* A parody: ''[=~Garth Marenghi's Darkplace~=]''.

* In Finland, ''Lapin Helvetti'' (Hell of Lapland) in municipality of Kolari. The place itself is an extremely beautiful deep caldera lake, but resembles of the pits of Hell.
** ''Kolari'' itself has meant orignally "colliery", but in colloquial Finnish means today "automobile accident".

* Town of Outokumpu in Finland. Literally "weird hill" - the hill glowed in the dark. [[spoiler:It was found to be one of the richest copper ore deposits in Europe.]]

* ''{{Buffy the Vampire Slayer}}'': Though Sunnydale doesn't count, the name it originally had does: Boca del Infierno or the Mouth of Hell. The ''Tales of the Slayers'' comic "The Glittering World" shows that Mayor Wilkins renamed it purposefully (also considering "Sunny Valley" and "Happydale").

** ''[=~Pokémon Diamond and Pearl~=]'' has Turnback Cave & Sendoff Spring that appropriately lead you into a dark, heavily fogged labyrinth. Its even Lampshaded in the guidebook.

* ''TheThreeInvestigators'' seem to keep ending up at places like this: Terror Castle, Skeleton Island, Phantom Lake, Monster Mountain, Death Trap Mine, Shark Reef, Wrecker's Rock...

* {{Lampshaded}} in ''{{Without a Paddle}}'' when SethGreen's character asks why all the places that they have to travel to have Satanic names.

** Made better (or worse) by neighboring towns ''Aarts''elaar (aars: arse) and ''Kont''ich (kont: butt). The area is unofficially known as the anal triangle.

** ''Storm Hawks'' gives us Terra Cyclonia, Terra Gruesomus, the Black Gorge, and the ever-popular Badlands.

** ' 'Storm Hawks' ' gives us Terra Cyclonia, Terra Gruesomus, the Black Gorge, and the ever-popular Badlands.

* Stalingrad, before it was changed back to the original St-Petersburg.

* ''LoonaticsUnleashed'': Who in their right mind would want to holiday on an island named 'Apocalypso'?

* ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'':

* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' has important events take place in Shadow's Waiting, the Blight, the Mountains of Doom and the Aiel Waste. Less plot-important locations include Kinslayer's Dagger (a small mountain range) and the Sea of Storms.

* In ''BatmanForever'', Riddler builds his base on Claw Island. AgonyBooth's [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Batman_Forever_1995.aspx?Page=13 recap of the movie]] finds it "convenient", saying "subsequent supervillains will have to make do with building their bases on Gumdrop Island, or Fluffy Bunny Atoll."