An online directory and discovery platform featuring unique, unusual, and interesting places to visit throughout New Jersey.
The world’s largest pipe organ isn’t tucked inside some grand European cathedral. It’s built into the walls of a sports and concert arena on the Atlantic City Boardwalk, hidden behind the same scoreboard that hangs over hockey games and Miss America. It’s called the Midmer-Losh, and with an official count of 33,112 pipes, it’s officially…
The Colgate Clock is a 50-foot-wide octagonal timepiece sitting at ground level on the Jersey City waterfront, staring straight across the Hudson River at Manhattan. It’s been glowing red at night since 1924, it was once billed as the largest clock on Earth, and — here’s the part most visitors never learn — it isn’t…
Apple Pie Hill is a 205-foot rise in Wharton State Forest, the highest point in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, topped by a 60-foot fire tower you can climb (when it’s open) for a 360-degree view stretching from the Philadelphia skyline to Atlantic City. It’s one of the strangest little summits on the East Coast:…
Right near Sunset Beach, past the crowds hunting for “Cape May diamonds” on the sand, a plain concrete tower rises above the dunes like it’s still waiting for a fight that never came. This is the WWII Lookout Tower in Cape May, officially known as Fire Control Tower No. 23, and it’s the last freestanding…
Grounds For Sculpture is a 42-acre sculpture park and museum in Hamilton, New Jersey, built on the site of the old state fairgrounds, where you can physically walk into life-size 3D recreations of famous paintings by Monet, Renoir, and Manet. It’s one of the strangest and most delightful public spaces in the state, and most…
Tripod Rock is a roughly 180-ton glacial boulder perched on top of three much smaller stones, sitting deep in the woods of Pyramid Mountain Natural Historic Area on the Kinnelon/Montville border in Morris County, New Jersey. It’s been balanced there since the last ice age, it looks like it should have tipped over centuries ago,…
The South Mountain Fairy Trail is a free, roughly half-mile stretch of the white-blazed Rahway Trail inside South Mountain Reservation in Millburn, New Jersey, lined with dozens of handmade miniature houses tucked into tree roots, stumps, and hollows. There’s no official numbered map of every single house, because the collection is always shifting — old…
Shades of Death Road is a real, publicly maintained 6.7-mile road in Warren County, New Jersey, running past Jenny Jump State Forest and a spot locals call Ghost Lake. Nobody agrees on exactly why it carries that name, but the leading theories point to 19th-century highwaymen, a malaria outbreak, or a canopy of trees so…
Lucy the Elephant is a six-story, elephant-shaped building on the beach in Margate City, New Jersey, that you can actually walk through, climb inside, and stand on top of. Built in 1881 as a real estate stunt, she’s now a National Historic Landmark and, by most accounts, the oldest surviving roadside attraction in the country….