An online directory and discovery platform featuring unique, unusual, and interesting places to visit throughout New Jersey.
The Deserted Village of Feltville is a cluster of abandoned 19th-century cottages, a church, and a carriage barn sitting deep inside the Watchung Reservation in Union County, New Jersey. It’s officially known as the Feltville Historic District, and despite the spooky nickname, it’s a real, walkable, publicly accessible site with a documented history stretching back…
If you searched for “Ronja Redviking,” the giant troll supposedly watching over a sculpture trail in Bristol, Vermont, here’s the direct answer: there’s no verifiable evidence she exists. No news coverage, no town records, and no listing on Thomas Dambo’s own official troll map show a sculpture by that name anywhere in Bristol. What does…
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…
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….
The Palace of Depression is a hand-built, junk-covered castle in Vineland, New Jersey, originally constructed in 1929-1932 by a self-proclaimed former Alaska gold miner named George Daynor. The original was torn down decades ago, but volunteers have spent more than 25 years rebuilding it on the same swampy lot, and you can still visit the…
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…
Mama Loumari doesn’t actually live on Breckenridge’s Sawmill Trail — she’s a real Thomas Dambo troll sculpture, but she’s built into the ground in Bernheim Forest, Kentucky, more than 900 miles away. The troll actually hiding in Breckenridge’s woods is her husband, Isak Heartstone, and he lives on the Trollstigen Trail, not the Sawmill Trail….
If you’ve been searching Breckenridge’s Sawmill Trail hoping to stumble on a giant wooden troll named Mama Loumari, here’s the honest answer: she’s not there, and she never has been. Mama Loumari actually lives about 1,300 miles away in a Kentucky forest. The troll waiting for you in Breckenridge is her husband, Isak Heartstone, and…
Mama Loumari isn’t actually hidden along Breckenridge’s Sawmill Trail — she lives more than 700 miles away in Bernheim Forest, Kentucky. The troll genuinely tucked into the woods near Breckenridge is her husband in artist Thomas Dambo’s fairy tale, a fellow named Isak Heartstone. If you scouted the trailheads around town looking for “Mama Loumari”…