An online directory and discovery platform featuring unique, unusual, and interesting places to visit throughout New Jersey.
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”…