An online directory and discovery platform featuring unique, unusual, and interesting places to visit throughout New Jersey.
The Doo Wop Motel District is a two-mile stretch of Wildwood, New Jersey, where dozens of space-age motels from the 1950s and ’60s still stand, plastic palm trees, neon signs, kidney-shaped pools and all. Officially known as the Wildwoods Shore Resort Historic District, it’s the largest surviving collection of mid-century commercial resort architecture in the…
Frankie Feetsplinter is a two-story-tall wooden troll sculpture standing on the sidewalk outside the National Nordic Museum in Ballard, Seattle. Built in September 2023 by Danish artist Thomas Dambo out of recycled pallets and scrap lumber, he’s the sixth and final sculpture in the “Northwest Trolls: Way of the Bird King” series, and the only…
The highest spot in New Jersey isn’t a mountain peak with a dramatic summit scramble. It’s a 220-foot granite obelisk sticking straight up out of the woods in the state’s far northwest corner, and you can drive right up to its parking lot. High Point Monument sits at 1,803 feet above sea level in Sussex…
Oscar the Bird King is a giant recycled-wood troll sculpture by Danish artist Thomas Dambo, sitting on a log throne in a shaded grove at Point Robinson Park on Vashon Island, Washington. He’s the sixth and final troll built in Dambo’s “Northwest Trolls: Way of the Bird King” series, and in the story that ties…
Fort Hancock’s Officers’ Row is a stretch of eighteen abandoned brick mansions lining Sandy Hook Bay in New Jersey, built in the 1890s for Army officers and left to decay after the fort closed in 1974. You can walk or bike right past their sagging porches today, free of charge, inside Gateway National Recreation Area…
Jakob Two Trees is a 14-foot troll sculpture built by Danish artist Thomas Dambo out of recycled wood, tucked into the forest along the Rainier Trail behind the Issaquah Community Center in Issaquah, Washington. He’s part of Dambo’s “Northwest Trolls: Way of the Bird King” series, and he’s easy to reach on foot — no…
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:…
NOTE TO THE ADVENTURER: This guide is meant to spark curiosity for what lies beyond the horizon — not to serve as a guarantee. Roads fall into disrepair, buildings are torn down and rebuilt, and properties change hands; 'tis your responsibility to do your own research before setting out. Always heed local and regional law,…
The Hindenburg crash site sits on an active military runway in Lakehurst, New Jersey, marked by a chain-outlined concrete pad shaped like the airship itself. You can’t just drive up and see it — the only way in is through a free, appointment-only tour run by the Navy Lakehurst Historical Society, and you need to…
NOTE TO THE ADVENTURER: This guide is meant to spark curiosity for what lies beyond the horizon — not to serve as a guarantee. Roads fall into disrepair, buildings are torn down and rebuilt, and properties change hands; 'tis your responsibility to do your own research before setting out. Always heed local and regional law,…