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* ''{{The Lord of the Rings}}'': [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom Mount Doom.]]

* ''TheSilmarillion'' by JRRTolkien also has a variety of locations which can be translated variously as the Grinding Ice, the Gasping Dust, the [[AtopAMountainOfCorpses Hill of Slain]], the [[EldritchLocation Mountains of Horror]], and the [[GardenOfEvil Valley of Dreadful Death]].

* In {{Robert Louis Stevenson}}'s ''TreasureIsland'', the title island is called Skeleton Island.

* Arthurian romances are full of castles that fit this trope. E.g. Perlesvaus, where one of the major bad guys hangs out in Castle Mortal; the Livre d' Artus has a Castle of Death; the Prose Tristan a Castle of Tears, which Malory calls the Doleful City; in Yvain, there's a Castle of the Most Ill Adventure; Malory has a Castle Perilous as well, not to mention Dolorous Guard. None of them sound like ideal holiday destinations.

* Small mining town ''{{Desperation}}'' in eponymous StephenKing novel. [[BodyHorror Good for one's health]], [[ArtifactOfDeath original sculptures]], [[RabidCop charming]] [[EldritchAbomination residents]] - fun for the whole family!

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking,_Austria Fucking, Austria]]. Though YourMileageMayVary - many people just find it funny.

** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Buggery Mount Buggery]], Victoria. YourMilageMayVary

* In ''DragonAge'' the deepest, darkest part of the Deep Roads is called the Dead Trenches. With reason.
** In DragonAgeII, Anders references Awakening with the Blackmarsh and Varric wonders why you would ever even consider going to such a place. The two then go on to talk about better places to go to but then realize that adding 'marsh' to the end of anything really makes it seem like a place to avoid. The Flowermarsh, the Kittenmarsh...

** The grim sounding Winterfell.

* ''Bahía Inútil'' (Useless Bay), ''Isla Desolación'' (Desolation Island), ''Golfo de Penas'' (Gulf of Grief), ''Seno de la Última Esperanza'' (Last Hope Fjord), ''Faro del Fin del Mundo'' (End of the World's Lighthouse) and my personal favourite, ''Puerto Hambre'' (Port Famine), are all real places of the Patagonia (both Argentinean and Chilean). And they have this names not out of fancy or tradition, they were named out of 100% pure refined Spaniard despair. Puerto Hambre story in particular is HighOctaneNightmareFuel.

* In ''BatmanForever'', Riddler builds his base on Claw Island. Website/TheAgonyBooth'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."

* ''BitterLake''. A place where everyone talks interminably with badly puppeteered mouths, up until they get their sorry carcass assassinated.

* In ''ChronoTrigger'', Crono and his friends visit Death's Peak, the Mountain of Woe, and the Black Omen.

** One of [[EvilOverlord the]] [[OmnicidalManiac Deathlords]] has established a [[TheNecrocracy nation of his own in the West.]] Its name? The Skullstone Archipelago, which is centered on the shadowland of Darkmist Isle.

* In the web short ''The House That Drips Blood On Alex'', the titular character played by Tommy Wiseau should have known better than to buy a house on [[ItIsPronouncedTroPAY Blood Street.]]

* As the above quote shows, WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons] moved to one of these places in a parody of the film ''CapeFear''.

-->'''Judge:''' I sentence you to a lifetime of horror on Monster Island! ''[GASP!]'' Don't worry, it's just a name.\\
'''Lisa:''' ''(being chased by monsters)'' He said it was just a name!\\

* WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic has Ghastly Gorge - home to jagged rocks, huge thorned plants and giant eel-things that try to eat anything that passes by. Also Tartarus apparently exists in Equestria. Any place that shares a name with the ancient Greek underworld can't be very nice.

** For that matter, Gehenna. It was essentially a giant trash pit. It is also often used as a synonym for Hell.
*** Indeed, its cognate in Arabic, ''Jahannam'', ''is'' the Arabic word for Hell.
**** [[ItGotWorse It. Gets. Worse.]] The reason that Gehenna got its infernal reputation (and the reason it was used for burning garbage) is that area was used as the "sacred" site of a very short-lived cult of Moloch during a time when the Jewish population caved in to foreign invaders and began worshipping other gods. Moloch demanded the sacrifice of children, which is a massive crime in the Judeo-Christian ethic. Once the zelots had shown the cultists the door (or the sword), they figured the place was so tainted by the acts done there that the only thing that could be done was turn it into a garbage dump for Jerusalem.

* London (England, not Ontario) has a few of these. Shoot Up Hill (in Kilburn, which itself almost qualifies) and Reaper's Close (in Camden).

* Newfoundland: Dildo, Placentia, Come-By-Chance, and so many more that there's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpycgIlhJXs a song about it]]. ''"Historians are still debating whether Newfoundland was discovered by Leif Ericson or Sigmund Freud."''--Dave Broadfoot

** There are two villages in England named Upper and Lower Slaughter. They're actually ridiculously picturesque and quaint little places.

* Cape Fear, North Carolina.
** We've also got Kill Devil Hills.
*** And Transylvania, Boiling Springs, Black Mountain, Seven Devils and Batcave. Though the last one mostly sounds [[{{Batman}} awesome]].
* The two moons of Mars are named Phobos and Deimos, [[BilingualBonus a.k.a.]] ''Fear'' and ''Terror.''
** To be fair, those were the helpers of the Roman god of war. Which puts it on the list, actually.
** Inverted with the planet ''Venus'', however. Despite being named after the Roman goddess of beauty, the planet is actually the most hostile in our own Solar System!
*** [[LoveHurts Maybe not so inappropriate?]]

* Competing page quote, from ''WebOriginal/TheDeadGirl'':

* Skull Island and Blood Island from ''TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland''. Of course, Skull Island looks like something distinctly different from a skull.

* In ''BatmanForever'', Riddler builds his base on Claw Island. WebOriginal/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."

* MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic has Ghastly Gorge - home to jagged rocks, huge thorned plants and giant eel-things that try to eat anything that passes by. Also Tartarus apparently exists in Equestria. Any place that shares a name with the ancient Greek underworld can't be very nice.

** While ''Tierra del Fuego'' (Land of Fire, literally) sounds like a suitable name like, for example, Hell, it actually was named out of some mysterious fires Magallanes saw in his expedition, which were presumably made by the Shelknam people. But hey, tell that to a [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits bunch of half crazy half starved scurvy freezing Spaniards]] crossing one of the [[EverythingTryingToKillYou most hellish]] and [[MobileMaze laberynthic]] straits in the world, at night, seeing [[LightIsNotGood strange lights]] on the shore while one of them starts to mumble that they [[DoNotTauntCthulhu defied God's will]] and reached the [[BeyondTheImpossible End Of The World]], i.e., Hell, and those fires you see are [[TheLegionsOfHell the Army of Darkness]] kindling the fire to make some nice and crispy Conquistador BBQ...

* Most Evil Empires even in RealLife seem to prefer fancy and nice sounding names for slave camps and torture prisions. An exception would be the Nazis, who named their ''Annihilation Facilities'' exactly for what they were. The closest thing to Hell ever seen on earth.

* Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, 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.