I'm not sure what you'd qualify as an unusual town name, but some nifty ones here in KY are:
Beaverlick (I mean, I get Salt Lick, but really??); Confluence; Do Stop; Monkeys Eyebrow; Rabbit Hash; Possum Trot; Rooster Run; Thousandsticks; and Yeaddiss.

As far as Geekiest Places, that would depend on what sort of Geek flag one flies, but the UFO Museum in Roswell, NM needs to be on your list!

For unusual instruments, I nominate the theremin! Played without touching anything!

The Star Trek Theme, of course. And other SciFi classic soundtracks, including "The Day The Earth Stood Still". The Wikipedia page has a section on current music, too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin

Dirty sounding words: Thespian. Maybe this was a high-school reaction, but when I was a part of the "International Thespian Society" I always had to make sure I enunciated properly. People giggled anyway.

Towns: Of course, there's the PA standards of Intercourse and Bird-In-Hand. According to this website (http://www.coolquiz.com/trivia/usa/towns.asp) there's also an Intercourse in Alabama. That site also lists a town named Bath Addition (which sounds more like a home improvement project, rather than a place with a zip code). But it also lists Pottstown and King of Prussia as odd place names... but maybe I don't think those are weird.

And there's also a Nowhere in Oklahoma. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowhere,_Oklahoma) I guess you literally take the road to Nowhere to get there. But doesn't Nowhere have to be somewhere? I wonder how that place naming went.

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My favorite word that sounds dirty but isn't is "masticate."

There's a No Name, Colorado. Cracks me up every time I drive by the sign.

I used to have a list of these when I worked repossessions because I'd run into them on my repo orders.

Here's a list of those I remember:

Truth or Consequences, NM
Climax, MI
Boring, OR
Sweet Lips, TN
Cranky Corner, LA

Banned Books:
Twilight - for religious themes and violence
The Dictionary (for having definitions of things like Sex, fellatio, etc.)
James and the Giant Peach - for Obscenity
Diary of Anne Frank - for religion and violence
A Light in the Attic - for promoting violence
Harry Potter books - for witchcraft and violence


My favorite word that sounds dirty but isn't - Defenestrate/defenestration - aka to throw someone out of a window.

Not really sure. Just that is what is cited when it was challenged/banned in a few schools a while back.

I also know that several Judy Blume books are challenged/banned. Along with the book, Once Upon a Potty.

Gee, I don't remember my mom looking through my books to "approve" them before I read them. In fact, I recall the very first novel I read that had sex scenes in it (and the main character was sleeping around, too) was a book I picked up in Williamsburg. It had a time-travel / historical romance theme, but looked very self-published as the print was obviously from a dot-matrix printer. Sorry, I don't recall the name of the book. Nor do I remember the exact time we were on that family vacation, but it had to be in the mid 1980s. I made sure to pick up the sequel the next time I was in their gift show - which wasn't until 1997!

But when I read it, I remember feeling embarrassed reading it at the swim club that summer, which was really silly, since nobody was looking over my shoulder to see what I was reading.

I still don't think that was enough to ban the book. Now, I may appreciate the research and detail he went into describing all the food on the table, but when I was a kid, I would skip ahead of those parts, much like the "Choose your own Adventure" books which were my usual swim-club reading fare.

The timing of your getting "Our Bodies, Ourselves" is kind of funny. Or at least it made me smile.

Oh, and I remembered the name of that book: "Nicholson Street" I even found it used on Amazon. Looking at the picture of the cover now, I wonder why on earth I picked it up. But it was the 1980s...

http://www.amazon.com/Nicholson-Street-M-G-McManus/dp/B000JI20XI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1364684203&sr=8-1&keywords=nicholson+street

And now when I read romance (or erotica) on my Kindle in public... I don't feel so much guilty as sort of devilish - like I'm getting away with something delicious. It almost makes me giddy sometimes.

In New York City, you can visit the building that was the Ghostbusters' headquarters.

You can also do a tour of all the locations from the Marvel movies.

I'd also suggest looking at the list of locations from Neil Gaiman's book "American Gods" to see which of those are open to the public.