Llanfairpwll railway station

The platform sign at the Anglesey station everyone calls Llanfair PG, photographed in May 2011: all 58 letters on top, and underneath, kindly, a pronunciation guide for English speakers. The best part is that the long name is a marketing gimmick. It was reportedly put together in the 1860s, when the railway arrived, as a way to pull in visitors, and it roughly means St Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool, with St Tysilio's church and a red cave tacked on the end. It worked: people still come mainly to stand next to this sign.