Cool Place Names

[Max Rockatansky]

Hell's Backbone Road and Box Death Hollow Wilderness came up tonight in a road chat I participate in.  Both are located on the Grand Staircase of the Colorado Plateau and have really "cool"  names (at least I think so).  What other places out there have what would be considered cool or unique names that are worth mentioning?

[SkyPesos]

Fucking, Austria (before it got renamed)
Hell, Michigan

[Roadgeekteen]

Intercourse, Pennslyvania

[kevinb1994]

Intercourse, Pennslyvania

As the old joke goes, to get to Paradise, you have to go through Intercourse.

[kevinb1994]

Hell's Backbone Road and Box Death Hollow Wilderness came up tonight in a road chat I participate in.  Both are located on the Grand Staircase of the Colorado Plateau and have really "cool"  names (at least I think so).  What other places out there have what would be considered cool or unique names that are worth mentioning?

Speaking of which, there's a Shades of Death Road in North Jersey, while South Jersey has a place called Good Intent and a road with the same name leading to it.

How about Boring, Oregon? There's one in Maryland, too, and Maryland has a Moot Point Road as well.

[Steve.S]

Bat Cave, NC.

[kevinb1994]

Bat Cave, NC.

Note to self: Fire Alfred!

[kevinb1994]

I'll also contribute Buttzville, NJ, which a radio station made a big stink (pun intended) about once.

Also, there's Butts Station in Virginia, and Butts County in Georgia. Georgia also has, just for kicks, Cumming (which also exists in Iowa).

[SkyPesos]

Just read an article online about someone biking from Poo Poo Point, WA to Pee Pee, OH.

[kevinb1994]

Just read an article online about someone biking from Poo Poo Point, WA to Pee Pee, OH.

Oh, I just read about the Ohio place name. I was like "˜dafuq'.

[Big John]

Embarrass WI

[kevinb1994]

Embarrass WI

Illinois too. Apparently, Minnesota as well. May have had something to do with the early territorial history of the region. I'll note that Illinois was a Country, then a County, and finally, a Territory, before it became a state.

[dlsterner]

As a young tyke on family vacations, I would sometimes be amused when we crossed the Pee Dee River in the Carolinas.

Later on, I remember needling somebody (in a friendly way) when I found out that they were from Bumpass, Virginia.

[kevinb1994]

As a young tyke on family vacations, I would sometimes be amused when we crossed the Pee Dee River in the Carolinas.

Later on, I remember needling somebody (in a friendly way) when I found out that they were from Bumpass, Virginia.

Ha, I read about the place name in Virginia earlier. I'm familiar with the Pee Dee, there's a Great Pee Dee and a Little Pee Dee. It was once called the St. John("˜s). Not to be confused with other rivers of the same name, of course, and I live near the one in Florida!

[Scott5114]

I always thought Hext, Oklahoma, on old US 66, sounded pretty badass.

[tolbs17]

Okay, OK

Kill Devil Hills, NC!!

[kevinb1994]

Okay, OK

Kill Devil Hills, NC!!

Ooh, I forgot about the OBX-how about Nags Head? Kitty Hawk?
Also, New Jersey has a Kittatinny Mountain. It seems to have given its name to Picatinny Arsenal.
I almost forgot about Horseheads, in Upstate New York.
Scranton has a Nay Aug Gorge.
Horseshoe Curve near Altoona.

[SkyPesos]

George, Washington

[kevinb1994]

Peach Bottom near the Mason-Dixon Line.

Ship Bottom in LBI.

Blue Anchor in South Jersey.

[dlsterner]

Let's not forget Lake Titicaca in South America, and Shitterton, a hamlet in England.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Embarrass WI

There's also an Embarrass, MN, which routinely lands at the "coldest town in the state" lists every winter morning along with nearby Tower.

The Passagassawakeag River in Maine made me snicker.

[webny99]

Embarrass WI

Illinois too. Apparently, Minnesota as well.

Read that wrong at first - thought you were joking that those states should be embarrassed as well!

[kurumi]

Dead Horse Point State Park, Utah (well worth the side trip, the views rival what you find at a national park.)

Seremban 2, Malaysia. A newer development near the city of Seremban, on the site of an old palm plantation. I don't recall seeing this sort of "sequel" naming anywhere else. (There is also a Seremban 3.)

[NWI_Irish96]

Cool, California

[Max Rockatansky]

The ghost towns of; Big Bug, Total Wreck and Vulture City in Arizona.