1) Blue Knob, Pennsylvania, USA

Any dude reading this is likely to wince at the thought of Blue Knob. It’s hard to believe but this really is the name of the highest skiable mountain in Pennsylvania.

You’ll be pleased to hear, this mountain sits alongside Spruce Knob, Cattle Knob, Round Knob, Pine Knob and Ritchey Knob. And the river that runs along the base? Beaverdam Creek. Double entendre heaven.

3) Crap Bar, Laax, Switzerland

If you’re handed the oppourtunity to name a bar, you don’t want to make it sound, well, crap. Yet that is exactly what happened to the owners of Crap Bar in the Swiss resort of Laax.

One evening in 1996, Helmut von Foofont was deciding what to name his new business venture. Intoxicated on a combination of schnapps and firewater known as Samichlaus, Helmut decided to name his joint the Crap Bar after the influential English toilet entrepreneur Thomas Crapper. The rest, they say, is history.

N.B. We cannot confirm nor deny that there is any truth in the above story – nor can we reveal that it wasn’t made up by *ahem* us.

(If you want the real story behind the name, it’s actually named after the base of the mountain on which it stands, namely Crap Sogn Gion. But that’s the boring version.)

4) Nub’s Nob, Michigan, USA

There actually was a bloke named Nub Sarns who founded the American resort Nub’s Nob. Unfortunately, it’s not named after his genitalia.

‘Nob’, we think, means ‘view’ in American (that strange adaptation of our native tongue that Yanks like to call ‘English’) – or something to that effect.

Bizarrely, Nub’s Nob has a superpipe that was named in Transworld Snowboarding Mag as one of the ‘Top Five East Coast Pipes’ back in 2009. So, there’s more to the resort than just a silly name.

6) Brokeback Mountain, Wyoming, USA

Brokeback Mountain has a history stretching back to the 1960s, with the resort described as “a guy-only rough and tumble place”. Apres consists of the Dude Ranch Lodge “where all the real cowboys go” with Clint Cocker the Country Rocker playing live country tunes and a mechanical bull to ride.

Oh, how we wished this one was for real. If the resort name didn’t give it away, then one look at the piste map with runs so aptly-named Ramrod and Glory Hole was enough to arose suspicions. Kudos to the fella who brought this half-convincing, highly entertaining spoof website into existence.

7) Wank, Germany

Teenage boys across the world, rejoice! There honestly is a place in Germany called Wank with a cable car called the Wank Bahn. Almost worth going just to see the look on your relatives’ faces when you tell them you’re off to Wank on holiday.

8) Misery Mountain, Alberta, Canada

With a name like this, Misery Mountain has to be a PR company’s worst nightmare. I mean really, who is going to book their winter break to Misery Mountain?

The name doesn’t exactly suggest wild party resort and good times for all. But, saying that, you could be heading to Suicide Six instead….

10) Twatt, Orkney, Scotland

OK so this isn’t a resort or anything, but we had to throw a British classic in there for good measure.

It may surprise you to hear that there’s actually TWO Twatts in the UK, one in the Shetlands Islands and of course, the infamous Twatt of Orkney.

They’ve even got their own Twatt Appreciation Society which I’m fairly sure you’ll be keen to sign up to as soon as possible.