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Paljassaare garaaziküla (Paljassaar)
There are the seven wonders of the world, with pyramids and hanging-gardens, there is beautiful architecture and elegant tree-lined streets, there are malls and monuments to human endeavor, and there is this bizarre pattern on a map... It's a massive, 1300+ garage zone of just under 8 ha (78,000 m², or 19.36 acres) and uncertain legal status, existing presumably under the principle that ‘possession is 9/10ths of the law’. Although they are garages, they're used more as lock-ups, workshops, personal escape rooms than places to park your car. You do, however, need a car to get there...
Palli (Pall)
Ball. Also bale; rating and Beaufort number. Part of a mini game-name area, see Sihi. Palli is also the only cobbled (munakivi, lit. egg stone) street in Nõmme. English ‘cobble’ may come from a Proto-Germanic base *kubb‑ meaning something rounded, while its German Kopfstein (lit. head(-shaped)-stone, nothing to do with cemeteries) is derived from the same PIE root of *keup‑, a hollow, as English ‘cup’ (see Kaevuri) and not, surprisingly, from PIE *kaput‑, head (see Hobusepea), opposite ends of the same hemisphericity, although the two are probably derived from a common root. But the ‘cobble’ stones here may be ‘setts’, in other words, stones that have literally been prepared or ‘set’, rather than being the naturally-occuring rounded ones.
