While driving through rural America, you pass an endless stream of monotonous exit signs. But some highway markers catch the eye. For instance, the green announcement that you're approaching Boring, Oregan. Might make you think twice about stopping there!

Some are examples of unusual or fun city and town names in the United States:

Hygiene, Colorado

Peculiar, Missouri

Fair Play, Missouri

Famous, Missouri

Accident, Maryland

Embarrass, Minnesota

Hooker, Oklahoma

Dreamland, Michigan

Last Chance, Idaho

Sweet Lips, Tennessee

Gay, Michigan

Hustler, Mississippi

Romance, Missouri

Fort Crook, Nebraska

Good Intent, New Hampshire

Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey

Pennypacker Park, New Jersey

Shakespeare, New Mexico

For more fun city names, please visit http://www.accuracyproject.org/towns.html. You can also check your cultural background by surfing through World Capitals or A chronological list of U.S. Presidents.

"What's in a name?" they say...

That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet."

But is that always neccesarily true?