There are many places which are not quite World Class silly, but I think they still deserve mention. At least one of these places has been declared world class at one time, but they were fairly voted off the main list, by people who cared to vote. And you can vote too!!
I now declare Belleville and East St. Louis to be sillier than any other place that didn't make the main list. But the main list has a "No State Twice" rule. So, I've declared these towns the cutoff point. For your community to make the main list, it must be sillier than Belleville and East St. Louis, Illinois.
And so Our Lady of the Snows, the matron of both Belleville and the northern lands, has had mercy upon the Canadian tundra once again, because otherwise, this next Silly Place would have voted itself back onto the main list by popular demand...
Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada.
Iqaluit is the proud capital of Canada's newest territory,
which is the result of a lawsuit by Canada's First Nations
(various Indians and Inuits/Eskimos).
When I went to visit Frobisher Bay in the Northwest Territories at Baffin Island in 1999, the Northwest Territories dodged . I still captured the Northwest Territories flag (Capture The Flag!) at the airport gift shop, but the rest of the town had become known as Iqaluit in the territory of Nunavut.
Iqaluit is indeed a proud territorial capital, with a museum and markers for its history. Iqaluit is also the only city ever to vote itself off the Silly Places list! (Like I said, proud.)
But unfortunately, these plagues are upon Nunavut's capital city:
(Thanks on this entry go to Tracy who proclaims herself a "Nunavut lover", and points out that most of the Inuit residents of Iqaluit can not only afford the high prices, they make more money than the average North American. This is almost entirely due to Canadian government subsidies.
(Acknowledgment on this entry goes also to the many people who rose to defend Iqaluit's honor. So many people voted against Iqaluit being a Silly Place, they got it thrown off the main list. I'm glad you care, and every vote counts... but the next time you complain about how evil the United States is, try not to do it from Microsoft Hotmail free e-mail, eh?)
But if I added Waco, then Texas would make the list twice, thanks to Dallas... and I couldn't have that. Waco was the place that inspired my "No State Twice" rule: For your community to make the main list, it must be sillier than the second silliest town of any state, territory, or province. And for years, this was Waco, Texas.
Huntsville, Alabama, USA.
It's definitely not the stereotypical Southern town.
I worked on Star Wars the Defense Project there. It mainly gets a
silliness award because of the rockets you see all over the place, like at the
Space Museum and at the Visitor Center along Interstate 65.
(It's like they want to put up church steeples, but all they have is rockets.)
But it gets an honorable mention for Space Camp too. Yes, your kids can
pretend to be astronauts in training!
Columbus, Ohio, USA.
I hereby declare Columbus to be silly, because it's declared the U.S. Prohibition
against alcohol to be a racist measure against German-Americans.
Columbus has a visitors' center that says that, in its German Village district.
Columbus is amazingly similar to Dallas, in that it has:
With that in mind, I'm taking submissions for a new list: